The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-09-15
II Dimes Off Wool and Fur.

"Well," said the careless young
person resignedly as she looked
at her sealskin jacket and her
otter-trimmed suit, 81 suppose the
moths will play the mischief with all
my winter things before next sea-
son."
"What makes you think that?" de-
manded the good housekeeper.
"They always d." replied the
careless young person in tones that
indicated that she felt a certain sad
pride in being singled out by fate as
q victim.
"That is nonsense, perfect nom
sense" said the good housekeeper in
most unsympathetic tones. eff you
lived in a properly regulated house
you wouldn't know what a moth
looks like. never have them in my
house. How do l keep them out?
By simply not giving them anything
to live in or on. l don't make nests
of wooden rags around on purpose
for their accommodation. l don't
have anything wooden around in
summer except things in daily use.
| take up the carpets OF the rooms
not in use or sometimes put down
mating all over the house and put
away the carpets, or if they are
down / keep some good moth pow
der and put it around in the less fire.
quented corners.
GLOW do l keep them out of the
carpets after they are taken up?
II don't know how I'd get them in
unless l took particular pains to.
There is no sense in the world in any
one having anything moth-eaten.
There is forty ways of preventing it,
each easier than the last. To begin
with, you can have a cedar chest or a
cedar-lined closet If you live in your
own house. 1t costs something in
the beginning, but nothingso oppres-
sive as people generally imagine, and
there it is for the accommodation OF
your children's children"
'I'm afraid they'll never arrive to
get the good of my cedar chest" in
terrupted the young person pertly.
eff you haven't a chest" went on
the good housekeeper, ignoring this
side issue, lyon can put them in an
ordinary trunk and put in 10 cents
worth of camphor and defy all the
moths in Christendom."
II don't like my things smelling OF
camphor," objected the young person.
81 like my things smelling of cam
phor better than havingn things to
smell of anything" was the satirical
response, "but you don't need to have
camphor. If you'll just do up your
furs and winter woolens in cotton
cloth, wrap them up in one big sheet,
you'll be perfectly safe-or you would
be if you had some one with grain
of common sense to do up the bundle
for you. 1t won't do to roll sheet
around the middle and leaveit open at
both ends. The sheet must thorough
vi enwrap your things, withno loose
corners or cracks. Moths won't 60
through cotton, and if they have NO
other way to get at your sealskin
they'll go with out it. j."
Il haven't any sheet" objected the
young person, mischievously. She
wanted to exhaust the resources as
well as the patience ofthe good house
keeper, but that lady was equal to
the occasion.
"Well," said she, paper will dc
just as well. If you'll save the big
sheets of wrapping paper that your
new spring things are now coming
home in you can doup all your winter
ones in a way that will battle the
most enterprising moth that evel
wiggled."
"But 1 think they have already
gotten in the jacket"
"They haven't gonefar ifthey have
all you need to do is to shake anC
beat it out well and then sprinkle il
well with powder before you put il
away. The moth powders are gener
ally good things"
"But they are poisonous, aren't
they?"
Gas harmless as arrowroot. They
don't poison the moths, they suffocat'
them"
And the young person saw no wa.
out of being obliged to take care o
her things for once.