TO INTEREST HOUSEWIVES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 132, 4 May 1940, Page 11

TO INTEREST HOUSEWIVES.

SOAP DISHES. (Copyright.) Soap dishes may save or waste the soap. So it is tor the homemaker to select those which lessen her budget father than increase it. The kind of soap dishes to avo.d are those which tend to keep soap wet. The kinds to choose are those which permit the soap to drain off extra moisture and allow air currents to circulate about it and thus aid in the drying out of the cake. It would be supposed that all soap dishes would have these features, hut such io not the case. The bottom ol a soap dish should be penorated, or else have a perioiatcd soap rest in it raised sufficiently above tne bottom of the dish to allow some water to collect in it without touching the soap. These features permit soap to drain after using and to. dry quickly from air circulating round the oaks. Woven wire or metal soap containers are well-liked for bathtubs and sinks. The soap drains into tub or sink and dries well, since plenty of air can get to the cake. Slat containers are not so suitable as perforated or woven wire ones. When a cake of soap gets thin it will slip between the siats, which is annoying, and wasteful also, if it falls into water. The best kind of a soap dish is one with a well-raised removable tray. The tray can be taken out and washed in hot water to open clogged holes and then dried. The dish can he oveiturned, emptied, washed and dried, and when parts are combined again the dish is like new. Or it the dish is fastened to the wall it can he wiped out until clean and then dried beiore the cleaned tray is restored to its proper p’ace. With such a soap dish, and given. such care, soap will be kept in good condition without waste. - A saucer substituted for a soap d.sh is poor economy. It is impossible to keep the bottom of the saucer free from water and this softens the soap and wastes it. A soap dish with slightly raised bars across the bottom is little better as the soap is not sufficiently elevated to he kept dry.