The Press., 1886-07-29
!a tHartford Courant)
 THE NEW DOMESTIC MISERY.

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 The honsekeepersl of New England just now are experiencing that delightful thrill of satisfaction, which comes to them on the discovery of new domestic misery. As true home comfort is reached only by the banishing of all ill from the house, it fol- lows that the more there is discovered to banish the sweeter is the promise. of the peace to be secured at last. To have trou- bles about the house, unknown and unoon- sidered, and to live along in content and happiness with an undiscovered i'll in ex- istence, would be lifelong modification to the New: England housewife should she ever realize the fact. It is something that she always, though somewhat needlessly, fears. If the moth. millers abound, the only road to quiet is past the grave of each of them, and, if they do not abound, the only way to treat their suspicious. absence is by a complete npheaval to see where they are. For an article of daily house. hold use this little bug, dreadful when seen and worse when unseen, has hitherto been avery general favorite. -rs, s' }
 But the moth miller has become now an incident, 8 mere unconsidered .trifle, be- side the buffalo bug. This is the new do- nestle woe, whose advent is to the house. keeper as the discovery of new star to the astronomer ora new disease to the doctor. The buffalo bug is destroyer of tremendous ability but most obliging disposition. It is always eating up some other persons household, so that attempts to secure 8 good description of it are not altogether successful. Onen never can find it, and only knows of it by hearsay. Even the origin of its name is involvedin doubt. It secretes itself with phenomenal success, and on that account, perhaps, may be named for the buffalo, whichI Ihas long been famous for it's hide and has now. practical ly disappeared altogether. .' "A. 7s.'s.
 The buffalo bug, according to it's her. aids, eats about everything in a we'll ar- ranged house-carpets, silk dresses, sofas, etc. .-and does it with such skill that you do not know this has been done The ar- ticle remains, and it is only by careful ex- animation that you find it has really been eaten up. Certainly no stronger argument can be educed for the need of constantly watching and caring for one's possessions. To have carpet or q dress suit destroyed and yet go right on using it and enjoying it, would be such mark of sloth and ig- norance as to stamp one at once for per son of low intellect and dull perceptions.
 Manifestly the bug must be kept out of our houses, and the only question is how. Some are tearing up carpets and taking out clothes, and generally upsetting homes, subjecting everything to the closest scrut- ny and severest tests to see whether it has been eaten up. But this is no remedy. It is only sort of inquest, and another may be needed tomorrow. The thing IS to keep the bug out, and, fortunately, that is easily done, if the story of it's ways is true. It seems the creatures always ''come up through square holes in the floor. Very well, then; take an auger and bore out all the square holes into round ones, and then the bug will have no way to come np. ------...-