520 DR. CEASE'S RECIPES. 



18. Borax, Its Value Corroborated.— In the same connection the 

 Journal goes on to say, further, of borax: 



19. Borax is the Best Koach Exterminator Yet Discov- 

 ered. — This troublesome insect has a peculiar aversion to borax, and will 

 never return where it has once been scattered. And, as this salt (chemists 

 know all these things as a "salt") is perfectly harmless to human beings, it is 

 much to be preferred for this purpose to the poisonous substances commonly 

 used. 



" Borax is also valuable for laundry use, instead of soda. Add a handful 

 of it, powdered, to about ten gallons of boiling water, and you need use only 

 half the ordinary allowance of soap. For laces, cambrics, etc., use an extra 

 quantity of the powder. It will not injure the texture of the cloth in the least. 



"For cleansing the hair, nothing is better than a solution of borax water. 

 Wash afterward -with pure water, if it leaves the hair too stiff. Borax dissolved 

 in water is also an excellent dentrifice, or tooth wash." 



Remarks. — See how well this plan agrees with the Holland and Belgium 

 washerwomen above, as to the use of borax for laundry, or washing purposes. 

 This writer says, also: "Dissolved in water, it is also an excellent dentrifice, or 

 tooth wash, as scientists think it destroys the parasitic mite, or insect that exists 

 in the fermenting food between the teeth." 



Borax as a Tooth Powder, or for Washing the Teeth. — I use 

 borax in powder every morning, to cleanse my teeth. Borax in powder, i^ oz., 

 with precipitated chalk, 3 ozs., with a few drops of oil of winter-green, which 

 keeps my teeth clean and white, by rubbing the brush first on soap, then into 

 the powder. Soap is essential once a day in cleaning teeth. Borax is, indeed, 

 one of the most valuable salts we have for washing and cleaning purposes; but 

 as we have now had a pretty thorough course of instruction in the various 

 methods of washing, we will take up the question of soaps, for domestic pur- 

 poses. Our first one, however, claims also, to make washing easy, which I very 

 well know it will do. If you use any of the white bar soaps, your soft soap 

 will be white — if any of the rosin-colored or yellow soaps, to make it with, such 

 will be the color when done. 



1. Bark Shanty Soap, or Washing Iffade Easy.— Good bar soap, 

 41bs. ; washing (sal) soda, 3 lbs. ; freshly burned stone-lime (which is also called 

 "quick-lime"), lib.; salt, 2 ozs.; soft water, 5 gals. Directions— First, put 

 the stone-lime into one gal. of the water, which is boiling hot; and, after stir- 

 ring it a few times within an hour or two, let it settle, then pom- off the clear 

 liquid into a suitable sized kettle to hold all, and add the balance of the water; 

 cut the bar soap into thin slices, and put it with the soda, into the kettle, and 

 boil until the soda and soap are fully dissolved, then stir in the salt, and pour 

 when a little cool, into suitable jars (a pine half -barrel will do very nicely), and 

 keep covered for use. 



^ma/'A;s.— This soap will save much of the rubbing of the clothing if a 

 cup or two of it, according to the size of the washing, is dissolved by stirring it 

 into cold water enough to cover the clothes, and they are soaked over night in 



