About Borax
Borax drives black beetles away. If these insects seem to have taken a fancy to your cupboards, sprinkle tbe shelves with borax after you have scrubbed them and before you cover them with paper. Ada a toaspoonful to your starch water. It will keep your iron from sticking and give your linen a better gloss. If jyour kettle is furred, add some borax to the next kettlcful of water and boil. This should remove the fur. Sprinkled on fruit stains, then damped and rubbed gently, borax proves an efficient stain Temover. - A teaspoonful added to a gallon' of hard water will make it soft as rain water. The most delicate skin can risk washing with it.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7295, 4 August 1930, Page 11
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118About Borax Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7295, 4 August 1930, Page 11
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