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Soap. Thoroughgoing in most White House economies, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge failed to perform one of the oldest and simplest housewifely tasks. Had she liked, she might have gone into the kitchen, selected a few goodly-sized pans, mixed animal fats (ox, hog) with oils (cottonseed, coconut) and lye-then put the mixture to boil. When it had reached a proper consistency, she would have run it off into frames, allowed it to cool and harden. Without much difficulty, she would have made enough soap to stock the White House bathrooms and kitchens for many a month...
Prohibition officials in southern Florida last week published a new recipe for getting drunk-a recipe that worried them because they could not see how to stop it. The recipe: into one coconut, bore a hole. Letting no milk leak out, insert two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar, followed by a cork. Refrain from touching the coconut for three weeks. Result: a tumblerful of cocowhiskey-pungent, potent, popular in southern Florida...
...Zulu Rex, pride of the Negro population, tossed Mayor Walker a coconut which he caught with the words: "From one nut to another...
...corporation, patted President James Augustine Farrell on the head-strenuously. Of dividends on the increased stock, the Judge said: "The dividend, I believe, will be 1% [as at present]." Scientist Robert Andrews Millikan will direct the corporation's research laboratories. Luncheon consisted, as usual, of sandwiches, apple, coconut and pumpkin pies, ice cream and coffee...
...conclusion of the bath she anoints her hair with coconut oil in which some particles of coconut meat may be seen and then knots her hair up out of her way and washes any clothes she may desire to clean. Then in her wet clothing she goes home for dry, and to comb and dry her hair. JASON M. WALLING...