The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-02-02


be generally known how very valuable
borax is in various purposes OF househoiu
use We find it the very best cockroach
exterminator ever yet discovered. One
half pound. costing but fifty cents, has
completely cleared large house former
lv swarmino with them, so that the APP
ncarance of one IN a month is quite nov
eltv The various discriminating pow
ders unified aud advertised have been
found not fully effective, tending rather tc
make the reaches crazy than to kill them
There is something peculiar either in the
touch or smell of bOrax, which is certain
death to them. They Will flee in terror
from it, and never appear again where il
has once been paced. 1t is also great
advantage that borax Is perfectly harm
less to human beings; hence no danger
from poisoning. 1t is also valuable Tor
laundry purposes. The washwomen OF
Holland and Belgium, SO proverblally
clean, and who get their linen so beautl,
fully white. use r, fined borax as washing
powder instead of soda, in the proportion
of a large handful Of borax powder to
ten gallons of water They save soap
near one half All the large washing
establishments adopt the same mode.
For laces, cambrIcs, 0tc, an extra quantl-
ty of the powder is used and for crlno-
lines requiring to be made stiff, strong
err solution is necessary. Borax, being a
neutral salt does not in the slightest de.
gree iniure the texture oflinen. Its effect
is to soften the hardest water, and there.
fore it should be kept on the toilet table.
AS way of cleaning the hair, nothing
is better than solution of borax and
wate.. 1t leaves the scalp in a most
Clearly condition, and the hair is just
sufficiently stiffened to retain its place.
This stiffness, however, can be readily re-
moved, if objectionable, by washing with
water. Borax is also an excellent dentl
frice dissolved in water, it is one of the
best tooth powders. In hot countries it is
used, in combination with tartaric acid
and bicarbonate of soda, as cooling
beverage.
WHAT WOMEN REALLY WART.--In an
article under the above head, In the New
York Independent, Gail Hamilton says:
Judging from what we hear, one
would suppose that the great and trying
want of woman is work or, as it is
sometimes put, fair days wages for a
fair days work or, again, freedom to do
whatever she is capable OF dong. This
is not so, What women want is not work
but the wages of work not freedom to
work, but freedom to receive money
without working. There is plenty to do
now, but they will not do it. They wish
to live like women and be paid like
men.
1t has been dinned and dinned into the
ears Of women that the place where they
are wanted is in the kitchen. But into the
kitchen they will not go. They are
sorely wanted in the sewing room, but
the sewing room is to them All abomina-
tion
Sick-nursing is an occupation the most
honorable. important and remuneratlve
The demand for nurses is constant and
urgent.
am amazed, am indignant 10 hear
this query for wider sphere and great
or opportunities for woman, while her
sphere is already thousand times wider
than she spans and her opportunities 3
thousand fold greater than she has ever
attempted to measure. Every sphere
under the sun is open to her but the do
nothing sphere.
SoUND,-Mrs. General Sherman and
one thousand other ladies. including the
wives of many Senators and Represent
atives, have sent remembrance to Con-
gIess against extending suffrage to
females-LG Crosse Republican.
And would it not be equally sound"
if Mrs General Sherman and the wives
Of many Senators and Representative"
after partaking of their dinners SHOULD
send IN remonstrance against the issue
of " soupt-ickets' to the starving poor ?
Mrs, Gen. Sherman don't want soup
tickets or the ballot she has husband
who provides for all her wants and pro
tects all her interests. But there are,
nevertheless, many thousands who need
the soup tickets to keep them from starv.
ing, and many other thou ,ands who need
the ballot for protection-Rdcine Adoo-
safe.
At the battle of Gravelotte the colors of
the 10th Prnssian regiment were taken by the