The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-06-06
WHOLE NO. 294
From Neal's Saturday Gazette.
USEFUL HINTS-BY MISS 1Es11r


duetion of furnaces for the purpose Of warm.
ing houses, is supposed to be the cause of
the great increase of moths, cockroacLes,
and other insects that now, more than ever,
infest our dwelling-plaees. For moths par
ticularly, the usual remedies of camphor,
tobacco, pepper, cedar wood, &C., seem no
longer sufficiently powerful, perhaps because
their odonr evaporates too soon. Still it is
well to try them when nothing better can
be had.
The following method of putting away all
the woollen and worsted articles of the house
will be found an infallible preservative ag-
ainst moths; and the cost is nothing in com
parison TO the security it affords of finding
the things in good order when opened for
use on the return of cold weather. Procure
at distiller's Or elsewhere tight empty
hogshead that has hold whisky. Have it
well cleaned, without washing) and see that
it is quite dry. Let it be placed in some
part of the house that is little used in sum
mer, and where it can be shut up dark.
After the carpets have been taken up, and
well shaken and beaten, and the greass-spots
all removed, let them be folded and packed
closely down in the cask.. Put in also the
blankets, having first washed all that were
not clean; also the weollen table-covers. If
you have wersted or cloth curtains and cush-
ions, pack them likewise, after they have been
freed from dust Also fannels, mernoes,
ns1 GS94s HSSts 6 s e. and saaa}ed II sd E Ike moths
Fold and pack them closely, making all the
articles fit advantageously into the space,
and so disposng them that each may find
place in the hogshead. The furs had best
be sewed up in linen before they are put in.
If we'll packed, one hogshead will generally
hold all the woollen articles belonging to a
sized family. Then nail on tightly the head
of the cask, and let the whole remain undis-
turbed till the warm weather is over. While
the house is shut up, and the family out of
town in the summer, you may safely leave
your woOllens put away in this manner.
Choose clear dry day for unpacking them
in the autumn and when open, expose
them TO the air till the odour of the whisky
has gone off. If they are put away clean,
and free from dust, it will be found that the
whisky atmosphere has frightened their
colours. As soon as the things are all out
of it, nail up the cask again, and keep it for
next season.
Where camphor cannot conveniently be
procured, furs flannel, &C., may be kept
through the summer by sewing them up in
linen, and nterspersing properly among them
bits of fresh sassafras bark, or shavings Of
red cedar. But there is nothing so certain
to preserve them from moths as an cid whisky
cask Never keep hair trunks. They al
ways produce moths.
| SMALL CocKRoAcHEs.-Man houses are
now much infested with the small Florida
cockroaches, which are especially trouble
some by their disposition to get into bureaus,
wardrobes, trunks and even band-boxes.-
They will soon disappear, if punches of
pennyroyal (as fresh as you can get it, and
frequently renewed) are laid in all the places
where they have been, OR are likely to be
seen. Pennyroyal is TO be bought in market
at very trifing cost. Rags dipped in oil
of pennyroyal, and laid about in their haunts
will generally dispel these cock-roaches; of
which, however, every one that is seen should
be killed at once, and not merely brushed off.
MIcE-An excellent preparation for ex-
peling mice and rats from house is Levy's
Exterminator, spread upon bread or cheese,
and laid about the places they frequent. 1t
is preparation Of phosphorus, and after one
mouse has eaten it the rest will soon disap-
pear. 1t has to be had at the druggists, and
will also expel cockroaches. We highly re-
commend it.
SoENT1Ne Cologne, or any other
liquid perfume made with essential oils, will
scent room much better and longer, if, in
stead of sprinkling it about, you pour few
drops into glass of water, and set it in some
central place.
ANEEDorE.--We heard story, some time
ace. Of Joe-. which will bear repeating.