The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, December 28, 1932, Image 2
SOAP MAKERS HUNT FDR INGREDIENTS
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.World Searched to Supply
' Oils and Perfume*.
Washington.' ? The United States Is
"soap consclsus." "
If all the soap normally used in the
eountr? In a year were equally dis
tributed, every man, woman, and child
would be allotted 25 pounds.
"In Colonial times, nearly every
back yard was a soap factory, H says
a bulletin from the National Geograph
ic society. ' "When the hardy Colonial
housewives sccumulated sufficient fat
for a batch of soap, they placed It in
a kettle over a fire and added lye
which they made from wood ashes.
The result was a coarse, soft soap.
"Although soap kettles still are In
use in remote regions of this country,
aoap making has graduated from the
back yards of America to huge fac
tories employing thousands of men
and women and maintaining hundreds
of railway cars in which to haul sup
plies. The soot-covered kettles of
Colonial dayB have given way to huge
vats, some of which hold ten carloads
of soap.
Basic Ingredients.
"Despite the growth of the Industry,
alkali and fats or oils still are the
basic ingredients of soap. Manufac
turers find a sufficient supply of al
soybean oil the soap maker depends
upon Manchurian, Chinese and Japan
ese supplies; while for cotton seed oU
he has to go no farther than onr cot
ton-producing southern states.
"Rosin which Is used In the manu
facture of laundry soap Is another con
tribution from our southern states, but
some rosin Is Imported from Prance.
Pumice, which became an Important
soap Ingredient when worlqnen de
manded a soap that would 'cut the
dirt* Without Injuring the skin, is im- a
ported from the Liparl islands which ?
lie northwest of the toe* of Italy,
Makes Odors Last.
"Musk make* soap odors last long
er. Soap maktTH import vegetable
musk which is made from the dried
roots of an Bast Indian plant, as well
as animal musk which Is taken from
small sacks which grow on the abdo
men of the diminutive male musk deer.
These animals are found In Tibet and
in the Atlas mountains of northwest
Africa.
"India, Australia, and the West In
dies are the sources of sandalwood
oil which Is used as a disinfectant In
soap. The fragrant oil . of bergamot
is pressed from the rind of fresh fruit
of the bergamot tree which thrives in
Italy and Sicily, while the lavender
plant of France gives hp lavender oil.
"Oil of bay Is produced from the
Unnamed Fish Killed in Battle
Blood on the ocean at Redondo Beach, Calif., caused hundreds of eyes to
turn seaward to witness one of the strangest of fish battles. It was a fight to
the death between a marlln swordflsh and a giant monster of the deep whose
piscatorial Identification Is yet unknown. Hnlf a mile off shore, the huge marlln
was leaping high in the air to lunge Its rapier at Its thrashing adversary,
splotching the sea with blood at every thrust. The spectacular battle soon
ended, with the monster floundering to shore, where It died. It weighed 550
pounds, possessed a tuna-like tall, a small round mouth In a perpendicular
face, and large brilliant eyes.
kalles within the borders of the United
States, but the demands and whims
of soap users for soap containing par
ticular oils, perfumes and other In
gredients, has made soap one of the
most; international commodities In the
American home.
??If representatives of every race
which lfad a part In the production
of American-made soap were called
together, they would form a heteroge
neous crowd.
"Animal tallow, an old soap mak
er's standby, comes from the slaugh
ter houses of the United States, but
vegetable tallow Is pressed from the
seeds of the Mutszshu tree of South
Central and western China. Coconut
oil which Is pressed from the dry pulp
of coconuts (copra) Is Imported from
the Philippines. Nigeria. Belgian Con
go, and the Dutch East Indies are
nources of palm oil.
"Spain,. Italy, Algeria and Greece
?re the sources of the olive oil used
In American sonps. Peanut oil, al
though obtained from southern Unit
ed States, also Is imported from China,
Africa, India and South America. For
Gown in Wine-Red
1 OutAta ruling among the timely HUg
geetlont of tho noaoon In tht* gown in
wlne-msd cronhM Tel vet, with peplum
kollnMcy.
Next Stop, Norway
Eddie Schroeder, who wus Chicago's
contribution to the American Olympic
skating team, has been Selected as a
member of the team that will compete
with Norway's best skaters at Oslo In
January. He is shown getting In some
practice In his home city.
>411 >4round
/Ac House
| Epicures prefer only salt and lemon
I Juice with avacado pear naiad.
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i Tinware will not rust if when new
! It Is rubbed with fresh lard and placed
in a hot oven for an hour.
* * ?
To obtain onion Juice, cut an onion
1 in half croaswlflo. With a knife,
ncrapo the cut aide of the onion and
the Juice will flow.
? ? ? ?
When cooking cabbage or cauli
flower, put in a piece of celery to
keep the odor of the cooking vege
table from (jetting out.
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To clean a badly burned pan, first
heat over flame and then ncrapo with
the prong ends of a clothspln to re
move all the burnt particles.
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When chopping nut meats for cake
or candy, Instead of lining a knife
use a cookie cutter. It la not no tedi
ous and It does the work quickly.
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Put a grapeleaf In bottom of fruit
Jar when putting up sweet pickles
and a slice of horseradish on top.
Then ptit over cool brine. Pickles will
aot shrivel, but stay hard.
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Biscuit dough makes an excellent
crust for meat pies. Make a good,
rich dough and line the baking dish
wlf'h half of It, pour In the meat
mixture, top with more crust and bake
until crust Is browned.
bark of the bay tree of the West In
dies ; the Island of Formosa and China
ore the sources of ol! of camphor ;
while red thyme oil ' comes from an
a romantic shrub which grows In Spain
snd In the neighborhood of Beyrouth,
8yria.
"Rosemary oil comes to American
soap factories from Spain and the Dal
matian coast; geranium oil from Al
/ gerla and lteunlon Island In the Indian
ocean; oil of Cltronella from Ceylon,
Java and , the neighborhood of Sing
apore; lemon grass oil from" the East
Indies; sunflower seed oil from Rus
sia; and bols de rose oil from the
rosewood trees of Cayenne and Brazil.
The Atlantic ocean supplies many tons
of menhaden, small, bony, Inedible flsh
which supply a soap oil, while for
whale oil ships rove the Atlantic and
Pacific from the Arctic to the An
tarctic."
HEAL THYSELF
Br THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Lata Dean of Men,
University of Illinois.
McCarthy's hair was thinning ? not
B(\ that ?t was particularly noticeable
to his friends,
but there were a
good many hairs
Id the comb when
he got t h r o u g h
with his tonsorlal
performances 1 n
the morning, and
he could detect the
fact that his brow
was gradually even
though slowly
creeping back and
presenting a more
noble aspect The
barber noticed It,
too, as barbers
will, and scenting a possible opportu
nity for additional profit, suld :
"Can't I give you a touic, sir?
There Is dandruff on your scalp, you
see, and a few nppllcatlous of whls
kerlne, I am sure, will do the busi
ness. We guarantee It, sir."
It sounded convincing to McCarthy,
who dreaded baldness as be did false
teeth. He was about to yield. He
hadn't noticed the barber before, but
when he looked up he saw that the
man was quite bald, with a shiny
baldneBS that leaves no hope for the
success of hair tonics. What about
the man's own hair, he wondered, but
he didn't ask any questions.
"No, I think not," he answered, and
decided to stick to a gentle manipula
tion of the scalp twice a day. As he
recalled, a good many barbers are
bald. Possibly they never tried their
own remedies.
Chnpln has been limping around ,
with a stiff knee for some time, and
after trying poultices and liniments
and hot applications and bone-setters
of various cults, he was persuaded to
see a distinguished surg?tf>n In a .dis
tant city. He foolishly called on the
surgeon without first making an ap
pointment In advance only to find the
man was out of town.
"You see." the office girl explained,
"Doctor Haven Is out of town."
"Will he be back soon?" Chapln In
quired.
"I can't quite say," the young wom
an said, "he's ? he's ? the fact Is, he
has had a very stiff knee for some
time, and he has gone down to Mar
tlnvllle to try to get himself Into good
shape."
All of which Indicates nothing, pos
Blbly, excepting that it is often easier
to cure the Ills of other people ? phys
ical, moral, or Intellectual ? than It Is
our own.
?, 1932. Wo?tem Newspaper Union.
POTPOURRI
Cork
Spain and Portugal supply most
of the world's cork supply, and is
some parts of the latter It Is so
plentiful that It Is used Instead of
wood for many purposes. Cork
comes from the bark of the ever
green cork-oak tree, which lives
for 1.50 years. This outer hark Is
stripped every eight or ten years
?. 1 931, W?nt?rn Nawnpaper Union.
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SU0GB9f?D BY J MCC <?AW
WNU Sarrlce.
England Jails Many for Debt
Increase During Depression
Brings Demand for Probe.
London. ? There are 24,000 persons
In Britain sent to prison for debt
every year. They constitute more than
45 per cent of the 00,000 receptions
into prison, and public opinion Is ris
ing dally against such a system, writes
William Hllljnan in Universal Service.
"If It were possible, without weak
ening the authority of the courts,"
says Sir John Gllmour, home secre
tary, "to reduce the number of per
sons sent to prison for non-payment
of sums of money, every one would
welcome such reform."
"A very large proportion of those
sent to puison for debt," adds Sir
John Gilmour, "are sentenced for non
payment of flnes or for failure to com
ply with wife maintenance and affilia
tion orders and other court orders for
payment."
Miss Margery Fry. a well-known
authority on prisons, thinks that a
good case has been made out for a
government inquiry Into the system
of imprisonment for debt.
"Debtor prisoners," she states, "are
liable to varying sentences. Imprison
ment purges some classes of debt, but
not all. Debtor prisoners greatly de
creased In numbers during the war
years, but have been steadily rU^ng
since, and follow with remarkable
fidelity the curve of unemployment.
Qabby (jERTIE
"It's embarrassing to ring up the
theater for a box and find that the un
dertaker got your order."
"The state seems to Imprison not
for poverty, but unwillingness to pay,
yet the relation between the two Is
too close for mere accident. It Is not
likely that obstinacy goes up and down
with unemployment, whereas It is cer
tain that poverty does."
In Britain, If a man Is sent to prison
for non-payment of his municipal
( taxes, then Imprisonment for a certain
term wipes out the debt. But In the
case of government taxes, however
long the term, the liability still re
mains existent.
She Keeps Secrets
Miss Margaret I^e Hand, having
been confidential secretary to Frank
lin D. Roosevelt during his term as
governor of New York, and his Presi
dential campaign, knows a lot Of se
crets and Inside stories. But like all
good secretaries she does not tell
them.
Ban on Hats 1,873
Years Old Is Lifted
London.? St. Paul's has raised a
scriptural ban made 1,873 years
ago. Hntless women are now al
lowed to worship In the cathedral
for the f\rst time since It was built.
In his epistle to the Corinthians
St. Paul decreed that "every wom
an that prayeth or prophesleth
with her head uncovered dishon
oured her head."
Although no definite ruling has
been made on this point, In the fu
ture Cathedral authorltlen will not
expect women with uncovered heads
bo leave when services commence.
Vergers will not ask hatless women
who wish to attend the services to
arrange a handkerchief over their
heads as they formerly did.
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By
LOUISE M. COMSTOCK
of Station
I r. J* aro circumstances under
which the humblest task may de
JJSii ,a KberoIsm as ?rear as the moat
g ant brandishing of weapons. The
?KC?'-pany of Plone?'" settlers hold
ng the fort at Bryant's Station, near
Lexington, Ky., during the Indian
?lege of 1782, was In desperate need of
?T- Abot August sun beatmerci.
essly down on the clearing, and within
the close Interior of the stockade the
children became restless, crying for
waloh ahndJhe meD kept the,r *rlm
atch beside their portholes with
parched throats.
The nearest source of supply was a
small spring outside the fortification
1C?Vm ral ^dS QWny from the Protecting
wails. The Indians had divided their
force into two bands. One of them, In
P ain sight of the defenders of the
fort, prowled about the clearing, yell
Ing. waving tomnhawks. letting fly ran
dom arrows, trying to entice them out
Into open battle. The other, lying In
ambush near the spring, waited to at.
tack them when they ventured forth.
But water was necessary. Without
>t the little stronghold could not hold
on to even Its slim chance of survival.
Question was. who should go
after it? Were men to appear out
side they would simply be playing Into
the hnnds of :b? pairing Indians, and
both those In ambush and those In the
open would Immediately Join In an
attack which must prove fatal. The
ZZTI ?fJl)e fo^t ou the other hand
were n the habit of bringing water
into the stockade from the spring
every morning. Were they to go about
t now In their usual way. the Indians
ght conclude their ambush was still
undiscovered and would not wish to
rhoir""1 . 8 U known nnd defeating
their main purpose for the sake of
firing on a handful of mere women!
8 the lot was cast. Some of the
women terrified by so dangerous a
prospect, at first refused to go. There
was no little hysteria In the fort
?v. however, spurred on bv the
rr.m. CTng0m,S' they n" consented.
Grimly they took up their waler buck
ets, swung buck the gate of the stock
ade and started out across the clear
Itrn, t h?mVF ,lttle bnn(1 they were,
tralght-shouldered pioneer women In
shabby llnsey dresses and broken
shoes, wane from anxious days within
tlmi of1' , ^ht-Hpped in the expecta
t on of Instant death. m puzzled
silence the red men watched them.
hnnZJ the 8prlnR' niIe(J thelr
buckets, one after another, walked
back to the fort and through the open
N T1,ey h"d
well. Not a shot Wad been fired I
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Emily Geiger
QEN. NATHANIEL GREENE, whose
thf (?OU8 camP?i8n In Georgia and
the Carolines eventually won that ter
on?.?, f0r >?>? the col
onlsts, was retreating before Lord
Rawdon from Ninety-Six. When he
reached the Broad river word was
25 1 di,;1; ihat the pursuin?
had divided forces. He Immediately
of"th ? ..th.e.Plan ?f tak,ng n(* vantage
this division to make an attack
confident that though he had been
of iPtnewda*a,n8f the 8Uperl0r nu?bers
of itawdon s combined forces, he could
ea.ll, defeat ,he two smaller f?ree,
taken one at a time, ills own lines
were depleted, however, by the recent
engagement, his men weary To In
sure his success It was necessary to
gain the .id of Ge?. ?G?me
UTE, " "C?"""s ,h? "f
terte, many miles away. The
message must be carried through dan
gerous country, ridden with Tories
rh;7ou?ro,"d "'?????? >?
Then there came to General Greene s
quarters, offering to undertake this
hazardous commission, a young Kirl
named Emily Gelger. Of Emily's fam
y. of her appearance, we know very
I tie. Of her Inter lire we know only
that she eventually married a rich
Planter and became mistress of a plan
tation on the COngerep river.
But we do know that General Greene
accepted Emily ,,is messenger en
trusted ner with a letter to General
Sumter, and rend Its contents to her.
Just In case of accident. So she act
out. mounted on hor.ieback and riding
side-saddle. On the Po<.(irHj (lny of |l(if>
Journey, she was Intercepted bv Lord
fawdons scouts and sharply f|Ilwl.
Now Kmlly could not tell ?n
untruth without blushing. Her looks
were very guilty Imleed. Ll)r(|
dons scouts promptly took her oris,
oner and confined her In a room In a
nearby farmhouse. They sent for an
old Tory matron to come and search
Alone In the room, waiting for u,o
matron, Emily's composure returned
Drawlhg out the precious letter she
tore It in bits, put It into her mouth
Piece by piece, chewed thorn, and
swallowed them. The matron entered
nnd searched the girl. But her search
revealed nothing suspicious, and Emllv
was eventually released, to go her way
Shortly a Her Emily reached her
K'?al. General Sumter's camp, delivered
her message, and as a result. Sumter's
troops only a little later Joined Greene
ht Ora ngeburgh.
^ ItSt. W?*t?rn NAw?|>a[IAr Onion.
Joltma and Eras
You get a fine slant on the soda',
background of an age If you Just
know Its conception of what Jokes can
be told In the parlor,? Detroit News.