Pure Soft Soap

Engineers often find it difflcult to get pure potash noap for purposes. The following recipe is recoramended as in every way satisfaotory: Take twenty pounds of absolutely pure, fine, strong caustic potash; dissolve it in an iron or carthenware vessel with two gallons of soft water. Add this strong lye to nine gallons of oil heated ■o about 140 degrees Fahrenheit, pourng it in a small stream an4 stirrlng continually until the two are combined and smooth in appearance - about ten minutes is necessary. The mixing may ie done in a wooden barrel. Wrap it up in blankets to keep in the heat that s generated by the mixture ltself slowly ombining and turning into soap. Put t into a warm room and leave it for hree days. The result will be 120 ounds of the finest concentrated potash oft soap, pure and free from adulteraion. Any vegetable or animal oil will o. Pale seal oil for wire-drawing and ubricating is the best. For ordinary 'ashing, when made with cotton-seed il, the soap is both cheap and good, nd, besides being useful for machinery urposes, produces a very superior soap or flannels and greasy or stained oolens in cold water.