Two pictures are packed together face to face with a blanket or quilt between them. Small ones are placed among clothes in bureau drawers and the large ones are crated. Clearing Room of Mosquitoes Mosquitoes may be driven from a room by hanging tender branches of castor beans here and there or by spreading wilted leaves of the castor bean in different parts of the room. The Entomology Bureau of the United States Department of Agri- culture recommends sprinkling equal parts of spirits of camphor HOUSEHOLD RECIPES 239 and oil of citronella and I/2 part of oil of cedar on a towel and hanging this at the head of a bed in a room infested with mos- quitoes. Preparing a Dust Cloth Dust will collect on the furniture if too much polish is ap- plied. A good way to add the right amount is to place 2 table- spoonfuls of the poli✪ Preparing a Dust Clothsh in a glass fruit jar, rolling the can until its sides are coated with the polish. Then insert the tightly rolled dust cloth, close the fruit jar and let stand 2 days. The polish will be evenly distributed on the cloth. Making Wliitewash Place 10 pounds of quicklime in a container and stir in 2 gallons of water. Cover and let stand an hour, stirring occa- sionally. The addition of 4% pounds of salt will make the whitewash stick better. A whitewash which will last longer is made by using 38 pounds of quicklime, 3 pounds of sodium phosphate, 5 pounds of caseine and 91^ gallons of water. Mix the lime and the water and when cool, add the casein dissolved in the solution of sodium phosphate. This is used for exterior purposes. Another excellent recipe for whitewash is this : mix 50 pounds of hydrated lime in boiling water until a thin paste is formed. Add 1 peck of salt, 3 pounds of rice flour, I/2 pound of Spanish whiting and 1 pound of clear glue✪ Making Whitewash dissolved in boiling water. The salt should be dissolved in boiling water and the rice flour boiled with water to a thin paste before it is added to the salt solution. After mixing thoroughly, the mixture is allowed to stand several days. When being applied^ the whitewash should be hot if possible. CHAPTER 2 LAUNDEEING EECIPES Homemade Soap from Cracklings Pour 2 gallons of water into an iron kettle and empty 3 cans of lye into it. Let cool 1 hour. Place the lye mixture on the stove and add 14 pounds of fryings or cracklings✪ Homemade Soap from Cracklings. Let this boil until every particle of grease is dissolved. Add cold water from time to time, adding just enough to keep the quantity of liquid the same all the time. The addition of cold water also keeps the mixture from boiling over. When all the grease is dissolved, set the mixture aside to cool overnight. In the morning skim off the white crust and brown jelly, leaving the sediment in the bottom. Dispose of the sedi- ment and wash the kettle. Put the white crust and jelly back into the kettle and boil 2 hours. Then add boiling water until the soap becomes the consistency of honey when dropped from a stick. Be careful not to add too much water. Pour into molds or boxes, which have been wet first in cold water, and cover the soap while cooling. Do not let freeze before it is hard. Laundry Soap from Fat ✪ Laundry Soap from Fat

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Two pictures are packed together face to face with a blanket or quilt between them. Small ones are placed among clothes in bureau drawers and the large ones are crated. Clearing Room of Mosquitoes Mosquitoes may be driven from a room by hanging tender branches of castor beans here and there or by spreading wilted leaves of the castor bean in different parts of the room. The Entomology Bureau of the United States Department of Agri- culture recommends sprinkling equal parts of spirits of camphor HOUSEHOLD RECIPES 239 and oil of citronella and I/2 part of oil of cedar on a towel and hanging this at the head of a bed in a room infested with mos- quitoes. Preparing a Dust Cloth Dust will collect on the furniture if too much polish is ap- plied. A good way to add the right amount is to place 2 table- spoonfuls of the polish in a glass fruit jar, rolling the can until its sides are coated with the polish. Then insert the tightly rolled dust cloth, close the fruit jar and let stand 2 days. The polish will be evenly distributed on the cloth. Making Wliitewash Place 10 pounds of quicklime in a container and stir in 2 gallons of water. Cover and let stand an hour, stirring occa- sionally. The addition of 4% pounds of salt will make the whitewash stick better. A whitewash which will last longer is made by using 38 pounds of quicklime, 3 pounds of sodium phosphate, 5 pounds of caseine and 91^ gallons of water. Mix the lime and the water and when cool, add the casein dissolved in the solution of sodium phosphate. This is used for exterior purposes. Another excellent recipe for whitewash is this : mix 50 pounds of hydrated lime in boiling water until a thin paste is formed. Add 1 peck of salt, 3 pounds of rice flour, I/2 pound of Spanish whiting and 1 pound of clear glue dissolved in boiling water. The salt should be dissolved in boiling water and the rice flour boiled with water to a thin paste before it is added to the salt solution. After mixing thoroughly, the mixture is allowed to stand several days. When being applied^ the whitewash should be hot if possible. CHAPTER 2 LAUNDEEING EECIPES Homemade Soap from Cracklings Pour 2 gallons of water into an iron kettle and empty 3 cans of lye into it. Let cool 1 hour. Place the lye mixture on the stove and add 14 pounds of fryings or cracklings. Let this boil until every particle of grease is dissolved. Add cold water from time to time, adding just enough to keep the quantity of liquid the same all the time. The addition of cold water also keeps the mixture from boiling over. When all the grease is dissolved, set the mixture aside to cool overnight. In the morning skim off the white crust and brown jelly, leaving the sediment in the bottom. Dispose of the sedi- ment and wash the kettle. Put the white crust and jelly back into the kettle and boil 2 hours. Then add boiling water until the soap becomes the consistency of honey when dropped from a stick. Be careful not to add too much water. Pour into molds or boxes, which have been wet first in cold water, and cover the soap while cooling. Do not let freeze before it is hard. Laundry Soap from Fat

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