TO SCOUR FLANNELS OR WOOLLENS.

Cut ½ a pound of the best yellow soap into thin slices, and pour

such a quantity of boiling river water on it as will dissolve the

soap, and make it of the consistence of oil. Cover the articles about

two inches with water, such as the hand can bear, and add a lump of

American pearl-ash, and about a third of the soap solution. Beat

them till no head or lather rises on the water; throw away the dirty

water, and proceed as before with hotter water without pearl-ash.