SOAP IN THE WILDERNESS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12545, 22 May 1909, Page 1

SOAP IN THE WILDERNESS.

A lady who made journeys in the ! wilds of Africa used to relate how J once, finding it necessary to clean.- a „ blouse, she carried it, with a cake oi ■ soap, to a neighbouring spring where an interested group of native women watched her wash it. They, were ; much impressed by the way in which the garment came out clean. The next morning, when it was time +0" break camp, the traveller missed .her soap— a precious commodity in the wilder- ,- ness. Suspicion soon pointed to a certain -woman, who, on being :- acoused, confessed boldly that she had taken it and cast it into the. spring,

that its extraordinary flowers of renewing old garments "might be permanently imported to the waters. She was deeply mortified to learn that her effort had been in vain.