THE POWER OF SOAP.
The introduction of soap, it, is said, is doing much to civilise the people of Holy L'lnd. A large soap factory has been established on the site of tho ancient Shechem, and the people are beginning to use it on their persons instead of trying to eat it as they did at first. Along with the introduction of soap, other reforms are going on. Bethlehem has been rebuilt, and t.ho streets are lijrhtcd with gas. Cesanoais havintr n buildinir boom. Nazareth is becoming the headquarters of big olive oil speculators. (Jonnr lots in Joppa are going up with a rush, and real estate in Mount Carmel is largelv held by speculators for an advance. All around Shechem there is a lively demand for good soap, fat, and tho sleepy inhabitants of Ramoth Giload think of buil'ling a silue factory. Jerusalem is wakimfup also It has a slreet-olnauing bureau, big clock on its public buildings, and its suburbs are beint; built up rapidly. Even in the Vale of Gehenna the price of lind has gone up. The ladies of Jerusalem take all tho Parisian fashion journals, and know all about the latest style of hair-dressing.—Ensrlish Paper.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2426, 28 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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199THE POWER OF SOAP. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2426, 28 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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