Transparent Soap

1 pound of yellow bar soap shaved in thin slices, ½ pint of alcohol. Put in a small stone jar. Put that into a kettle of cold water and let the water boil for ten minutes, stirring the soap all the time. Scent to please, bergamot or rose, and pour into molds.

Climax Cleansing Fluid

This fluid will remove paint, grease, etc., from all sorts of fabrics without injury to the most delicate. Carpets are renovated to a charm by its use. ' 2 ounces of ammonia, 1 teaspoonful saltpeter, 1 ounce of finely scraped variegated soap, Rabbit's will do, some use shaving soap, 1 quart of soft water, mix all together and let stand a few days without using. Cover the spot to be cleansed and rub with a sponge, then wash out with clear warm water. For carpets sweep off the dust, cover the spots well with the liquid and then scrub them with a common scrubbing brush, and wash off with clear water.

This same fluid applied with a small brush to every crack and crevice in a bedstead will be found certain death to all insect life.

How To Remove Grease Spots

Alcohol, 4 parts; ammonia, 1 part; ether, ½ part. Mix. Apply the liquid to the grease spot, and then rub diligently with a sponge and clear Or use.

Climax Cleansing

Climax Cleansing Fluid. In common goods the spot may be rubbed a little with the sponge, but in light goods simply apply it. Some very delicate articles may have grease removed by covering the spot with powdered French chalk and laying the garment away for several days.

How To Soften Hard Water

To a boiler ¾ full of water put in sal-soda the size of a large egg. This will not injure the clothes, will whiten and save rubbing. Use sal-3oda for cleaning floors.

The Economy Of Borax

The addition of an ounce of borax to a pound of soap melted in with a little water and not boiled, will save one-half in cost of soap and three-fourths in labor of washing, besides leaving the hands soft and silky and the clothes very white.

Billing

Draw a cloth through the bluing water first to take up any floating particles; also dissolve the bluing in warm water. Shake the folds out of garments before putting in the bluing water. This will prevent streaks.

Liquid Bluing

1 ounce pulverized Prussian Blue, ½ ounce pulverized oxalic acid, 1 quart soft water. Mix. 1 or 2 table-upoonfuls to a tub.