MAKING BUBBLES | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 29.

MAKING BUBBLES.

CHILDREN love to make soap bubbles; it is twice as much fun if the bubbles are big ones, strong enough not to break when they are floated to the floor. Bubbles twice as large as your head, or as large as the largest kind of football, says the New York Recorder, can be easily blown by any one who knows how to mix up the soap-bubble material. To make these large bubbles, take a piece of castile soap about as large as a walnut. Cut it up in a cup of water and then add a teaspoonful of glycerine. Stir well and blow from a small pipe. To make pink bubbles, add a few drops of strawberry juice, and to make yellow ones put in a little orange juice.

But quite pretty bubbles may be blown by mixing a very small quantity of clean soap and water, using a spool instead of a pipe. Castile or ivory soap is good. Some may not be able to procure the pipe and glycerine, but all can procure a spool and a little soap and water.