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Borax, as Used By the Washer-Women of Holland and Belgium
"The washer-women of Holland and Belgium, so proverbially clean, and who get up their linen so beautifully white, do it by the use of refined borax (kept by druggists) as a washing powder, instead of soda, in the proportion of a large handful of borax powder to 10 gals, of boiling water, saving in soap nearly half. All of the large washing establishments adopt the same plan.
" For laces, cambrics and lawns an extra quantity of the powder is used, and for crinolines (skirts) requiring to be made stiff, a stronger solution is necessary. Borax being a neutral salt does not in the slightest degree injure the texture of the linen. Its effect is to soften the hardest water. "—Youman's Dictionary of Every-Day Wants.
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