emove tea stains and almost all ordinary stains of
fruit, grass, etc. This fluid brightens the colors of colored clothes,
does not rot them, but should not be _left long in any water_; the
boiling, sudsing, rinsing and bluing, should be done in quick
succession, until the clothes are ready to hang on the line.

HARD SOAP. (Washing.)

Six pounds of washing soda and three of unslaked lime. Pour on four
gallons of boiling water, let it stand until perfectly clear, then
drain off, and put in six pounds of clean fat. Boil it until it begins
to harden, about two hours, stirring most of the time. While boiling,
thin it with two gallons of cold water, which you have previously
poured on the alkaline mixture, after draining off the four gallons.
This must be settled clear before it is drawn off. Add it when there
is danger of boiling over. Try the thickness by cooling a little on a
plate. Put in a handful of salt just before taking from the fire. Wet
a tub to prevent sticking; turn in the soap and let it stand until
solid. Cut into bars, put on a board and let it dry. This makes about
forty pounds of soap. It can be flavored just as you turn it out.

SOAP FOR WASHING WITHOUT RUBBING.

A soap to clean clothes without rubbing: Take two pounds of sal soda,
two pounds of common bar soap and ten quarts of water. Cut the soap in
thin slices and boil together two hours; strain and it will be fit for
use. Put the clothes in soak the night before you wash, and to every
pailful of water in which you boil them add a pound of soap. They will
need no rubbing, but merely rinsing.

TO MAKE SOFT SOAP WITHOUT COOKING.

Pour two pailfuls of boiling water upon twenty pounds of potash and
let it stand two hours. Have ready thirty pounds of clean grease, upon
which pour one pailful of the lye, adding another pail of water to the
potash; let it stand three or four hours, stir it well; then pour a
gallon of the lye upon the grease, stir it well; and in half an hour
another gallon of the lye, stir it thoroughly; in half an hour repeat
the process, and thus proceed until you have poured off all the lye;
then add two pails of boiling hot water to the remainder of the
potash, and let it stand ten hours; then stir the mixture, and if it
has become stiff and the grease has disappeared from the surface, take
out a little and see whether the weak lye will thicken it; if it does,
add the lye; if it does not, try water, and if that thickens it, let