Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1917 — Soap. [ARTICLE]

Soap.

Soap Is excellent as a means of getting the face clean or correcting coarse language In the young, but it has its drawbacks. It cannot always be depended upon. A cake of soap that has been in the family long enough to seem tame and harmless will sometimes run amuck in the bathroom and lead one to the brink of nervous breakdown. Starting from a given point a cake of soap, if slightly provoked, will dash about, leaping from place to place in wild -flight till the pursuer swoons in exhaustion. The cake of soap peeks out from a safe place under the tub to snicker maliciously. If you recover and have the spirit to resume the chase you will have a gay time in bagging the soap, even though you have it cornered. The soap is clever. It will not make a move till you have seized it, tmd then it will slip a few inches away. After several of your grabs the soap will estimate neatly with a quick eye Just the length of your arm and then it will settle down a few Inches beyond your reach. In this case your only move is to get a long stick and have the soap out with a few sweeps. If you are only human you will probably beat it to death with any blunt instrument at hand. And then go and get another piece of soap.—lllinois State Register.