HARD SOAP. Material for making: six pounds warm grease, three pints cold water, one can Babbitt 's lye, one tablespoonf ul sugar, one-half cup ammonia, one-half cup kerosene, one-fourth cup oil of sassafras or oil of lavender✪ Hard Soap. Warm or heat grease until thoroughly melted, let stand over night until settled, reheat and strain through cheese cloth, until clear. Add ammonia to the warm grease. Put lye in cold water, add borax, kerosene and sugar. Let stand until cold and lye is dissolved; pour lye very slowly to warm grease, and stir ten minutes. The cooler the grease, and the lye, the sooner it will thicken. Pour into pan lined with thin cloth, or muslin, cut when thick as cheese and turn out on brown paper. Put lavender or sassafras in after or just before putting into pan. You need not put in either the oil of lavender or the sassafras unless you want sweet soap. This is good soap for your kitchen and butler's pantry. — Mrs. E. J. Parrish. AN EASY WAY TO CLEAN SILVER. Have a large aluminum kettle or vessel. Use one tablespoonful baking soda to one gallon water✪ Easy Way to Clean Silver. Put silver and boil until all discoloration is removed. Take silver from the vessel, scald with boiling water and polish with a soft cloth. — Mrs. E. W. Morris. TO CLEAN WINDOWS AND MIRRORS. One-half gallon water, one table- spoonful kerosene oi✪ Cleaning Windows and Mirrorsl; have water as hot as you can bear, add kerosene. Wipe the mirror and Avindows with a cloth dampened with this solution. Let stand a few minutes and polish. — Mrs. Bertha Thompson. TO CLEAN BATH-TUBS, ETC. Instead of using soaps and washing powders, for cleaning bath-tubs, lavatories, etc., wet a rag with kerosene oil✪ Cleaning Bath-Tubs, Etc. and wipe the tub thoroughly. Then polish with a dry cloth. Do not use any water. This takes away all the spots as well as dirt, and can be done in one- third the time. — Mrs. E. G. Belvin. TO CLEAN A CORSET. If you wish to make an old white corset look new, wash it in the bath tub using a good soap and scrub with the regular scrub brush. After thoroughly cleaning the garment, make a suds of some reliable pink soap✪ Cleaning a Corset and dip the corset until it is an even flesh. The results are wonderful and the life doubled in its attractive duration. — Mrs. P. T. Elliott. 72 USE DAN RIVER SELF-RISING FLOUR W. L. SPAIN North Durham Meat Market North Mangum Street Home-Killed Fresh Meats, Fish and Oysters The Market of Quality and Service Phone 952 D. C. MAY Painting, Papering and Decorating PHONE 1028 Office and Show^ Rooms, Five Points Pope Mattress Company You spend one-third of your life in bed. Why not pass this time in comfort? The Pope Silk Floss mattress — that's comfort. Old mattresses made new. Phone 1278. We do the rest. Cor. Alston and Angier Ave., - - - Durham, N. C. Phone 423 Easy Teams SMITH & WILLIAMS FURNITURE Stoves, Ranges, Rugs, Phonographs, Shades, Refrigerators, Water Coolers and Ice Cream Freezers. 109 W. Chapel Hill Street— "Five Points" Durham, North Carolina Main Street Pharmacy Company Agents Whitman's Chocolates, Eastman Kodaks and Supplies, Symphony Lawn and Lord Baltimore Stationery 201 East Main Street Telephones 541 and 553 C. D. KENNY CO. TEAS, COFFEE, SUGARS "Phone 97 301 West Main Street, Durham, N. C. THIS SPACE DONATED BY Durham's Fashionable Store for Men Donated Victor Kaplon Ladies' Ready-to- Wear and Millinery Comer Main and Church Streets PASCHALL BROTHERS

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HARD SOAP. Material for making: six pounds warm grease, three pints cold water, one can Babbitt 's lye, one tablespoonful sugar, one-half cup ammonia, one-half cup kerosene, one-fourth cup oil of sassafras or oil of lavender. Warm or heat grease until thoroughly melted, let stand over night until settled, reheat and strain through cheese cloth, until clear. Add ammonia to the warm grease. Put lye in cold water, add borax, kerosene and sugar. Let stand until cold and lye is dissolved; pour lye very slowly to warm grease, and stir ten minutes. The cooler the grease, and the lye, the sooner it will thicken. Pour into pan lined with thin cloth, or muslin, cut when thick as cheese and turn out on brown paper. Put lavender or sassafras in after or just before putting into pan. You need not put in either the oil of lavender or the sassafras unless you want sweet soap. This is good soap for your kitchen and butler's pantry. — Mrs. E. J. Parrish. AN EASY WAY TO CLEAN SILVER. Have a large aluminum kettle or vessel. Use one tablespoonful baking soda to one gallon water. Put silver and boil until all discoloration is removed. Take silver from the vessel, scald with boiling water and polish with a soft cloth. — Mrs. E. W. Morris. TO CLEAN WINDOWS AND MIRRORS. One-half gallon water, one tablespoonful kerosene oil; have water as hot as you can bear, add kerosene. Wipe the mirror and windows with a cloth dampened with this solution. Let stand a few minutes and polish. — Mrs. Bertha Thompson. TO CLEAN BATH-TUBS, ETC. Instead of using soaps and washing powders, for cleaning bath-tubs, lavatories, etc., wet a rag with kerosene oil and wipe the tub thoroughly. Then polish with a dry cloth. Do not use any water. This takes away all the spots as well as dirt, and can be done in onethird the time. — Mrs. E. G. Belvin. TO CLEAN A CORSET. If you wish to make an old white corset look new, wash it in the bath tub using a good soap and scrub with the regular scrub brush. After thoroughly cleaning the garment, make a suds of some reliable pink soap and dip the corset until it is an even flesh. The results are wonderful and the life doubled in its attractive duration. — Mrs. P. T. Elliott. W. L. SPAIN North Durham Meat Market North Mangum Street Home-Killed Fresh Meats, Fish and Oysters The Market of Quality and Service Phone 952 D. C. MAY Painting, Papering and Decorating PHONE 1028 Office and Show Rooms, Five Points Pope Mattress Company You spend one-third of your life in bed. Why not pass this time in comfort? The Pope Silk Floss mattress — that's comfort. Old mattresses made new. Phone 1278. We do the rest. Cor. Alston and Angier Ave., - - - Durham, N. C. Phone 423 Easy Teams SMITH & WILLIAMS FURNITURE Stoves, Ranges, Rugs, Phonographs, Shades, Refrigerators, Water Coolers and Ice Cream Freezers. 109 W. Chapel Hill Street— "Five Points" Durham, North Carolina Main Street Pharmacy Company Agents Whitman's Chocolates, Eastman Kodaks and Supplies, Symphony Lawn and Lord Baltimore Stationery 201 East Main Street Telephones 541 and 553 C. D. KENNY CO. TEAS, COFFEE, SUGARS "Phone 97 301 West Main Street, Durham, N. C. THIS SPACE DONATED BY Durham's Fashionable Store for Men Donated Victor Kaplon Ladies' Ready-to- Wear and Millinery Comer Main and Church Streets PASCHALL BROTHERS

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