Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1913 — Soap Bubbles [ARTICLE]

Soap Bubbles

Now is the time to make soap bubbles and children will while away many happy mornings doing so. Fill a quart bottle full of distilled water and sift into it four-fifths of an ounce of ivory soap, which has been finely shaved. Allow this to dissolve, then shake and leave till all bubbles have disappeared. Add one third pint of glycerin and after thoroughly mixing the two pour into a basin and give each child a clean glass or clay pipe. Any mother can thus do her morning’s work better when she knows the children are harmlessly employed. The glycerin makes the bubbles very strong and they will soar longer than others.