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FACTS ABOUT BOKAX
;4T 4S'A VERY USEFUL-ARTICLE PRO.
DUCED f ROW WATER.
And I of Oroat Valuo In the Arts and In
the Honshold ItK Medicinal Qualities.
A Splendid IlHlnfectant and an Excel-'
font Insecticide. . '
Boracic acid is a peculiar combination
of boron with oxygen. , The borax of
tlie shops is the biborate boracic acid
: with soda. . . It is found in an impure
v state in many parts of the world in alka
line springs, lakes and the sinks of
mountain streams flowing into arid re
gions. It is ' usually in company with
other alkaline salts, where is it gathered,
often mined, and purified bylixiviation.
certain amount of water will only hold
in solution a small percentage of it and
as fast as the. percentage of water is
reduced by evaporation the borax crys
talizes and sinks, leaving the other salts
that may be present in the water. There
fore pure borax is' , easily obtained when
there is only a small percentage of it in
alkaline water. . ; .
Alkaline water carrying a percentage
of Itorax in solution with many other
salts, as the water is evaporated . .each
salt is crystalized and sinks to the boir
torn when the water reaches a certain
definite density and is deposited in well
defined strata. Among the last to fall
or crystalize is carbonate of soda, if
present.
The largest deposit of borax, in the
known world is in Death valley, San
Bernardino and Mono ' counties, CaL, in
one of the great sinks of ancient seas,
and mountain streams. It is found there
quite pure in practically unlimited
quantities. It is more or . less plentiful
in many sinks of Arizona and Nevada.
Before these deposits were worked, borax
'was rather expensive for general use.
The supply then came from the Cast
Indies and China. In China it has been
used since the beginning of their history.
Pure borax can now be bought for fif-
tmn wnta n. Twin lid 'With a railroad
through the borax beds it would be very
much cheaper. It is at present hauled
to the railroad at Mojave ; on wagons
drawn 100 miles by twelve to twenty ,
mules. The water needed for mules
and men must be hauled a like distance. .
In the arts borax is used as a flux and
is used in separating nearly all v nvt-
als from their ores and impurities. " For
welding iron and steel, soldering and a
great many other things, raewjuses for it
are being constantly - discovered. '"For
domestic purposes its uses are many and
important. It is one of the very best
- antiseptics known. : It prevents in a
marked degree putrefaction in .organio
- substances, especially in animal tissues
and liquids. It is a very mild 'rion-cor-ronive
salt and is of great value ui clean
sing putrescent ulcers, sores and wounds,
and washing fresh wounds to prevent
putrescence. It is, in fact, a specific
poison to many forms of minute life
such as microbes,' bacCili," bacteria,
molds, ferments, etc., but not to alL It
is a good disinfectant and is non-poisonous
taken internally, anon-drritant, inild
and soothing to the skin or a wound. '
In taste it is a mild alkaline, nearly
like wood ashes and can- be mixed in
sufficient quantities with foods to pre
serve them. For instance, a small
amount added to fresh milk will prevent
its souring for' days and correct ' bad
odors in it. It is also a solvent : deter
gent and a purifier. By its use water so
foul as to be unfit for use is quickly ren
dered innocuous. . With alum and borax
roily, filthy water may be made clear
and wholesome. It softens hard or
limey water, cleans clothes, fine laces
and silks without injury to color or fa
bric, cleans, softens and renders the skin
smooth, destroys odors a perfect boon
to one with bad smelling feet and other
disagreeable odors of the person. It
sweetens the breath, preserves and whit
ens the teeth. As a cleanser it is' better
. and safer than soap. In fact, pure bo
rax and it is generally pure has more
uses of great value than probably any
known drug or salt. Not one-fourth of
its uses are enumerated here. .
The principal uses of borax in the
household and farm are for toilet. It
makes washing easy. 'We pay great
- prices for it in, many forms, ' such as
washing powders, milk, fruit and meat
preservatives, etc., for cleaning sores on
animals and as a remedy for sour stom
achs and the sick and nervous headaches
which arise therefrom. In solution . it
is an excellent garglo for sore throat,
hoarseness, sudden colds in the head. It
-should be used the first thing as a gargle
when diphtheria is feared. ..Many lives
and much suffering could be saved by
its prompt use in such cases. It should
be freely used everywhere in case of epi
demics, in conjunction with other disin
fectants. Borax can be used any where
without damrer. Its solntion in alwnva
the same in cold water. A vessel may be
' half filled with borax and covered, with
water and the liquid will always contain
-the same percentage of borax: x " 'After
ance wing a small amountin the : water
for the bath one will always use it. It
tion. . .- -.. -". '; ri '
Borax is a repellant to many insects
and a specific poison to' many others.' 'In
fine powder or solution it kills caterpil
lars, and especially moist ones like slugs,
pear slugs, snails, sow bugs, greasy
worms, (maggots) cut worms, etc.-. It is
fatal to many aphids or leaf and plant
lice. In this line -there is a good field
for experimentation with borax as an
insecticide. Its strongest solution does
not injure foliage.', - It should, be a vain
able addition to the lime, sulphur and
Halt compound, an effective winter wash
for scale bags. It should, as a- powder,
ltwfcroy cabbage lice, plum and cherry
aphids, woody aphids and all greasy and
vaty aphids. Borax soap, horns made,
'- ilh pura wholesoni oil, i th best
ibut-eanlm rood.; -:- On 9. Wjbr.
.How .to Keep a Uaior in Order. ' '
I A razor must be treated with respect,
and a good razor deserves it. If you
will look at the edge of a razor with a
microscope you will see that it has teeth
like a saw. If the razor be put away
damp a rust will surely form in these
teeth and the edge be lost... After using
wipe the razor, pass it two or three
times over the palm of the hand, strop it
on the softest side of the strop and place
it carefully in its. case. In getting the
razor ready for use don't be in a hurry
and don't think that you will save time
by bearing- heavily on the strop. Haste
and strength in stropping have dulled
more razors; than heavy : beards. . In
stropping bear quite gently on the strop
and move the razor across it with delib
eration from heel to toe, turning to the
other side on the back of the blade and
returning likewise from' heel to toe, or
from hilt to point, if such terms be
plainer. Many youths when their beards
are young think they must strop their
razors, as they see barbers strop theirs.
A barber, doing little else, becomes very
dexterous in handling razors and puts a
fine edge on his tools in a manner which
if imitated by an amateur would even
dull the rough edge of care, not to men
tion the delicate instrument with which
he scrapes his chin.
How t
Remove Tight Rings ' from
Swollen Fiusers. ''
Jewelers employ this method: Begin
at the end and wrap the finger tightly
with a fiat rubber braid, cord or thread.
Hold the finger up a few minutes; then
remove tho wrap quickly and wrap it
again.' The " third, or at most fourth
operation will generally reduce the finger
so that the ring will slip off easily. Jew
elers, however, like physicians, often
find that "much depends on the idiosyn
cracy of the patient."
How to Act When Clothes Take i'ire.
Seize blanket, shawl, overcoat or rug
anything of the sort indeed that is
most convenient spread it out as wide
ly as possible, throw it around the vic
tim and grasp tightly. This saves the
face, which is the great object. Then
throw the victim on the floor and the fire
may be put out at comparative leisure.
If the victim 'is alone, he or she may es
cape serious injury in most cases by fall
ing upon the floor and rolling over till
help arrives." Unfortunately, this an ac
cident .which in most cases deprives both
victim and bystander of all judgment
and presence of mind.
- How 'to Preserve Natural Flowers.
Dip the flowers in melted paraffin and
withdraw instantly. The mixture should
be" - only Varm enough to preserve its
fluidity, and the flower should be held
by tho stem and given one quick turn in
the fluid to get rid of air babbles. .- Of
course the flowers should be free from
all except the natural moisture.
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How to Take Care of Glove.
Sew the buttons on a new pair "before
using them. The buttons are not put on
securely at the factories. A rip is best
mended on the wrong side. For another
sort Of "rent sometimes a bit of court
plaster can be used. It will hold a tiny
piece of kid in place on each thumb tip
where a glove is liable to' wear in holes.
For all mending of gloves use thread in
stead of silk, and when repairing a small
hole other than a rip buttonhole in fine
stitches around its edge "and then draw
together. The buttonholing makes the
repair more firm. -,
It is a pity no preparation has been
found to prevent some hands from spoil
ing gloves by perspiration. There is only
one way to care for such damp gloves,
and that is to blow into them till they
take the form of the hand, then put them
where they will dry. If crumpled when
wet it will be almost impossible to get
them on after they dry.
How to Preserve Hum.
Mix five ounces of niter with eight
ounces of coarso sugar and rab it on the
ham; twenty-four hours later rub in two
pounds of salt, and in two weeks two
pounds more. This is for a twenty
pound ham. It should lie in the salt a
month or five weeks.
How to Make s Blackboard.
Mix flour emery with, shellac varnish
and add lampblack enough to give the
color, . If the varnish and emery mix
ture is too thick make it fluid with alco
hol. Apply with a fine soft brush. This
mixture may be put on a smoothly
plastered wood or a planed board.
How to Xeal with a Doctor.
Always be careful to tell him the exact
trath as to what you gave the patient
before he arrived. -Don't -be afraid of
him he id alvnoat as anxious to cure as
you are to have him. After the first
general statement he will examine the
patient and ask questions. Answer them
as plainly and briefly as possible. In a
case Of some time standing it is particu
larly important that he should have the
truth about what the patient eats.' Don't
let the idea get : into your head that a
"doctor's bill" is a sort of charity. After
paying your taxes (which you can't es
cape) the next person paid should be the
doctort'It is not necessary., to be over
modest in telling him how you got sick.
He has probably doctored - bigger fools
than yon.'
How to Bake Joll and Silver Cake la
- s One Pan.'
When the batter of both kinds is ready
put a little of. one into one side of the
pan, then some of the other on the
other side, continuing this carefully un
til all the batter is placed. When baked
there will be an almost straight perpen
dicular division line through the loaf,
showing the two colors. Ths soma thin j
can be done with whit and ehocolate
oake.-
ABOUT COAL OIL.
A Few Facts That Are . Useful a Well
-,,"; ',; -Instructive.. ; .
Coal oil is made from' petroleum by
boiling in a closed vessel or still and the
vapors which come off first are', conden
sed and then treated with chemicals and
coal oil isthe result. . This oil, when
properly used, is one of our best friends,
It is used for lighting, and cooking pur
poses and it may be" added ! to water and
clothes cleaned with it without scrub
bing being necessary. , However, if this
oil is not used as it should be, it becomes
a source of danger. Thousands upon
thousands of dollars have been lost and
many lives sacrificed by the explosion of
oil lamps, and all because the coal oil
was not handled as it should have been.
The first way to avoid explosions of
oil lamps is to have good ones. Good
lamps do not cost any more than poor
ones. The fault generally lies with the
buyer, who considers . looks 'only with
out taking quality and utility into con
sideration. The portion of the wick in.
the oil receiver should be surrounded by
gauze and the oil receiver ought to be
made of metal rather than glass or China
and should have no opening for filling
other than the wick holder which screws
off and on. Every lamp should have an
extinguisher. -; The stands should be
broad, flat and heavy to prevent liability
to being upset, If everyone; in buying
lamps, pays attention to these details
the market for dangerous lamps will be
considerably decreased and the demand
for first class, not necessarily expensive,
lamps increased accordingly, and the
dangers of fire and loss of life reduced in
the-same ratio.-' ' ' '
Second Wicks. How many ever con
sider the importance of wicks. The
wick is nearly always responsible for the
name, which ' ought to be broad' and
bright.' Wicks ought to be soft and
loosely plaited. ' How many are ? They
should be dried in an oven or before a
fire and cooled in a dry .place, and cut so
that they are only the length of the oil
holder and not curled up as is often the
case. They should exactly fit the burner
without being squeezed into it. Before
lighted a new wick should be soared
with oil, which is best done by putting
it in the lamp , in the morning and hot
lighting until evening by which time it
is thoroughly saturated. " " :
Third Management. The reservoir
should be quite . full of oil before the
lamp is lighted and the lamp ought al
ways to' "be thoroughly cleaned . and all
charred L wick and dirt removed before
lighting. This is best done after the
lamp has been burned by rubbing the
top of the wick-wjth soft paper, which
keeps the wick always even,: once1 prop
erly but;; I'Wheri the lamp is first lit the
wick should be turned low - and ' slowly
raised. . When lamps are left standing
in rooms which are not used or in hall
ways it is a common thing to ' see the
wick turned low. This is a dangerous
economy because some day by trying to
save a few cents on oil the lamp will ex
plode. The reason of the danger is: The
burner : 'get8 heated when ' the'1' flame
is lowi. which it never does when the
flame is full, as all the flame Is above
the burner, whereas when it is low it is
below. . . Thus- the- burner gets heated
and, being metal, heats the gasses in the
oil reciver which, when they are mixed
with air in certain proportions," become
powerfully explosive and inflammable.
Coal oil gives off inflammable gasses at
and above certain temperatures. .', Now,
if the wick does not fit and in extinguish
ing the lamp someone blows down the
chimney, which is a common practice,
then the flame passes between the wick
and the burner and this explosive mix
ture is ignited and the lamp, if con
structed of glass or China, goes into ' a
thousand pieces. This explosive mixture
of air and gas may be prevented by al
ways haying the lamp full of oil and a
perfect fitting wick and the only inlet
for oil by unscrewing the burner. -
In extinguishing lamps which nave no
extinguisher, lower the wick until the
Same just flickers blue, then blow across
the top of the chimney.. Never blow
down the chimney. All cans and bottles
used to hold oil should be kept clean
from dirt and water and kept tightly
closed. These remarks refer to coal oil
lamps only, or what some may call par
affine oil lamps. . . -.
Perhaps few know that coal oil may be
used in washing clothes with saving of
labor. Take half a pot of watar as is
used to boil clothes in, add half a pound
of soap and one and a half to two teas
poonfuls of coal oil- Heat until the soap
is dissolved, then put in the linen with
out any previous boiling; boil front half
an hour to an hour, according to circum
stances. Then rinse in hot water three
or four times, as necessity demands, and
the washing is done without any scrub
bing. Judgment must be used through
out, and after two or three trials the ex
act method most suitable, in each case
will be learned, Considerable smell
may be evolved during the process but
this will be offset by the saving of labor.
. Prof. A. A. Cunningham.
A Jersey Record Breaker.
. The last record of the ' Jersey cow is a
world beater. - It is that of Bisson's
Belle from whose : milk '-. within a year
lately closed, was made 1,028 lbs. 13 ozs.
of well worked butter, salted with one
ounce to the : pound. This is only ex
ceeded by a year's yield from the' Hol-stein-Friesian
cow Pauline Paul, whose
best record is 1,123 lbs." 151 ozs. Yet it
is likely that Pauline weighed ..nearly
twice as much as Belle' and ate during
the year nearly; double the quantity of
food. When such tests are rightly made
a careful account of the amount, cost
and kind of food ate during the test is
kept. This would be of great value.
All of these special breeds. . have a place
in the economies of this country. The
peculiarities of the Jersey are strongly
fixed by ages of careful' breeding. .". Bis
ton's Belle belongs to none of the gilt
lge strains. She is just a plain, every
lay imported J ersey. But she has made
-he leader of the noted fashionable
!amilies step down. . ' - -
How to Shop for One's Wife.
To do a lady's shopping is one of the
most- difficult and - disagreeable - tasks
which ever falls to the lot of . man. A
man, unless he be a "man milliner," is
no judge of the articles' he is usually
asked to buy, and he even has no intelli
gent opinion about them. ; Nor does , he
know what they should cost,. There is
no chance whatever that he will make a
bargain. So as to reduce, the chance of
mistakes to a minimum a man when
shopping for his wife should get from
her before he starts out the minutest di
rections as , to each article and write
these directions in his notebook in full.
He should learn what each article ought
to cost and also inform himself wherein
and how far he was to use his own dis
cretion. With such directions, if a' man
will go to a shop and confess his igno
rance and exhibit his orders, he will be
taken charge of and provided with every
thing he desires. Some men are trou
bled with an inclination to think that
they know; it alL No better school of
discipline could be devised for such men
than to have to do a lady's shopping.
That will take all the conceit out of
them.' ' - ' '
Dr. Burchard, of New York,' died last
week and stood before St. Peter, the
Roman. "The' alliteration of thv Bum,
Romanism and Rebellion," said Peter,
'is so harmonious that I forgive tbee.
Get thee hence and .find Orpheus, and
tell him I have sent thee up for thirty
million days to spin harpstrings." Kla
math Star.
pimples.
The old idea of 40 years ago was that facial
eruptions were due to a" "blood humor," for
which they gave potash.- Thus all tho old Sarsa
parill&s contain potash, a most objectionable and
drastic mineral, that instead of . decreasing,
actually creates more eruptions. You have no
ticed this -when taking other Saraapariilas than
Joy's. It is however now known that the stom
ach, the blood creating power, is the seat of all
vitiating or cleansing operations. A stomach
clogged by indigestion or constipation, vitiates
tho blood, result pimples. A clean stomach and
healthful digestion purifies it and they disappear.
Thus Joy's Vegetable SarsaparUla is compounded
after the modern idea to regulate tho bowels and
stimulate tho digestion. The effect is immediate
and most satisfactory. A short testimonial to
contrast the action of the potash Sarsaparilias
and Joy's modern vegetable- preparation. Mrs.
C. D. 8tuart, of 400 Hayes St. S. F., writes: " I
have for years had indigestion, I tried a popular
BarsapariUa but it actually caused more pimples
to break out on my face. Hearing that Joy's was
a later preparation and acted differently, I tried
it and the pimples immediately disappeared."
'Vegetable:
VSarsaparilla
. Largest bottle, most enUctiye, same rice.
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Kent, a guaranteed' specific for" Hysteria, Dizzi
ness; Convulsions, tits,- Nervous Neuralgia,
Headache, Kerrous Prostration caused by the nee
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pression, Softening of the Brain, resulting in in
sanity and leading to misery, decay and death.
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Powei
in either sex, Involuntary Losses and Spermat
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A Revelation.
Few people know that the
bright bluish-green color of
the ordinary teas exposed in
the windows Is not the nat
ural color. Unpleasant as the -fact
may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; - mineral coloring
matter being used for this
purpose- The effect Is two
fold. It" not only makes the
tea a bright, shiny green, but also permits the :
use of " off-color " and worthless teas, which,
once under the . jrreen cloak, are. . readily .
worked off as a good quality of tea.
' An eminent authority writes on this sub
ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them ".finer appearaace. Is carried on exten
sively. Green . teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by
glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric,
gypsum, and Indigo.. . viethod it to gen
eral that very Utile genuine uncolored green tea
offered for tateS'ir I i. .
It was the knowledge of this condition of.
affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's
Tea before the public. , It is absolutely pure
and .without .color. ..Did you. over see any
genuine uncolored Japan tea? Ask your
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and yon
will see it, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found In color to be just be
tween the artificial green tea that you have
been accustomed to aod.the black teas. ;
. It draws a delightful canary color, and is ma
fragrant ,that it will bo a revelation, to tea
drinkers. : Its s purity makes it .also more
economical than .the artificial teas, for lest
of it Is required per cup,.- gold only ly. pound
packages bearing this trade-mark : .,.
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