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Show Helps For the Kitchen. Have a stationary soap cup on the side of the scrubing bucket to prevent bits of soap from wasting in the water. wa-ter. Keep your sand or scouring soap In a little wire basketover the sink. An odrinary soap dish will hold the water and waste the soap. A piece of heavy unbleached muslin neatly hemmed should be placed over the flour barrel under the lid to keep out the insects and dust. A little soft soap, made from half a pound of hard soap and two pounds of boiling water is much more economical, economi-cal, if properly used, for laundering purposes, than ordinary hard soap. An evidence of good housekeeping and economy consists in having a variety va-riety of bags, large and small, neatly labelled and tacked on the back of the pantry door, to hold the kitchen towel3 and dishcloths that are prepared and ready for use in fact, all the little articles ar-ticles that are needed at a moment's warning in the kitchen. |