Show The Uses of Soap New York 12Herald editorial The best news that has come from California in years is contained in the announcement announce-ment of the discovery of a vain of clay containing so much potash that it canbe ueed as soap A great many natural products are named as necessary to the success of a new state But soap which seldom finds a place among them is practically the most important A people peo-ple that has plenty of soap and use it is sure to succeed People who apply soap externally seldom crave alcoholic stimulants Soap properly deluded with water and placed where it will do 1he most good is almost a specific for laziness lazi-ness If soap had been abundant in New England in the 17th century there would have bean no quarter vagaries or witchcraft horrors for disordered minds are seldom found in sound bodies Had California soap mines been discovered a few years earlier and its output properly distributed there would have been no sand lot Idiocies for men who wash themselves thoroughly and wear clean clothes however ragged never become socialists or haters of other classes but it is not fair that California should monop olise the natural production of soap If the earth can yield a cleansing element anywhere above the level of the bottomless bottom-less pit there should ba some lively prospecting pros-pecting at once in the cellars of Tammany Tam-many Hall and tho city hall |