SCIENTIFIC WASHING.

Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 72

SCIENTIFIC WASHING.

Washing is a science — there is no doubt about that. Tha olevor woman who has her linea hung with billowy clothing, out* livalling the snow, may -indeed bo, called' clever. The gveat secret of washing- is to make the clothes tho whitest without injuring the fabric. To get thia effect Borne use kerosene, some 'fluids," some borax— but the clever woman use* SAPON. >o one who has <\C-r yet used Sapon will rountenanco any preparation. Try 11 once, and you wu ha\e accurexl * iaatiiut

€h& love and remembrance of so many friends! MIZPAH. "Isn't it nice?" I looked «t tbe little gold trinket «ad then »t Doliie. "What! have you two fallen out?" "Fallen out! No, you silly boy, how can you imagine snch a. thing!" "This affair," I said, indicating the brooch, "isn't this a token of a dissolution of partnership, so to speak?" A ripple of laughter floated through the house. "Oh, Mr Ignorance! Do you mean to tell me that yon don't know the meaning of 'Mispah'!- I think it is just sweet of Jack, and co appropriate, since I won't see Mm for months,' and Doliie looked wistfully out through -the -window. Then^ suddenly remembering me, and the brooch, she continued: "Well, then, you dear old duffer. Tead the interpretation of it on the other heart." "What! Is this supposed to be your heart? — and this Jack's? How 'sweet'!" It took fully five minutes for the ruffled •waters to calm again. T!hen I read aloud the interpretation. "'The Tiord -watch between thee vnd me -when -we are absent one from another." "Now apologise for being so nasty." "All right," I replied; "but that doesn't explain away the fact. By the way, what does that *w*tch' mean?" "To — to take care of us, of course.".. "Oh. of course! Just as 'xiice' may iaean anything, and 'sweet' may describe you last gown quite as appropriately as it describes Holman Hunt's 'Light of the "World'! Shakespeare's English has gone Eadly to the dogs." - . There ensued another period of storm, when -we again sat down and quietly discussed "Mispah.". Doliie brought first the big dictionary, then the encyclopedia, but with little sucees. Then I suggested going to the root of the matter. When I turned up the thirty-first chapter of Genesis Doliie was purprised. and confessed that ,she h»d never read it before, and certainly never dreamt that "Mispah" had its origin there and in. such a manner. Incident by incident we discussed the quarrel between Jacob and I/aban, until its culmination on the Mount Gi^ad, and the intense bitterness -with which each man upbraided the other. Saw how they were kept from seriously harming each other only by the direct intervention of Gcd (v. 24). and then the sullen agreement to part for ever. It was a solemn ceremonial, and a cairn of etones was raised for .a witness. Jacob must never come beyond that cairn on the one hand, nor Laban on the other. The name of the cairn, Mizpa-h. given by Jacob, mesnt a watch tower, anS God was Xo watch between them — i.e. to patrol, to keep the fron- , tier. It was a solemn agreement to differ; and one went the one way. while the other turned his steps in the opposite direction. There is no record of them ever undoing the covenant. Jacob never again met Laban. "It's been very interesting." said DolHe. ''and it has quite upset my pet theory, which is^ a common one ; but"— -pinning the brooch on _lier breast — "I'm going to wear Jack's brooch all the same; it'll mean just what I -want it to mean, and it is a ''nice' brooch!" I "was left to nuee over tbe subject of our conversation. For a long time I fat thus. I smiled as I thought of Doliie and Jack. "She is right," I thought; "why not wear it?". Then my thoughts returned to Haran and the tragedy of Mount Gilead ; and I felt' a queer little chill run through me as I thought of the true significance of that token, born so lightly upon Dollies lovingbosom. And I said in my heart. "No. I certainly couldn't wear it, nor could I wish " But the creak of a door "brought me to my feet with a startled blush. . BANGSTEK MEE. And here I bring the bright "Odds and Ends" to an end. EMMELINE.