Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26
1T Dimes OFF WOOL AND FUR.
An Old Housekeeper's Advice on Battling
With Moths.

"Well," said the careless young per
son resignedly as she looked yesterday
at her sealsl1in jacket and her otter
trimmed suit, 81 suppose the moths
will play the mischief with all my win
ter things before next season."
''What makes you think thatPn de-
manded the good housekeeper.
''They always do replied the care
less young person in tones that indi-
Gated that she felt certain sad pride
in being singled out by fate as a vic
tim.
''Thatis nonsense perfectnonsense -
said the good housekeeper in most I'M
sympathetic tones. IF you lived in a
properly regulated house you wouldn't
know what moth looks like. Inever
have them in my house. How do
keep them out? By simply not giving
them anything to live in or on. 1don'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. L
take up the carpets of the rooms notin
use or sometimes I put down mating
all over the house and put away the
carpets, or if they are down l keep
some good moth powder and put 1t
around in the less frequented corners.
SLOW do keep them out Of the car
pets after they are taken up?
81 don't know how I'd get them in
unless took particular pains to. There
is no sense in the world in anyone hav-
ing anything moth-eaten. There are
forty ways of preventing it, each easier
than the last. To begin with, you can
have acedar chest ora cedar-lined clos
ct if you live in your own house. 1t
costs something in the beginning, but
nothing so oppressive as people gener-
ally imagine, and there it is for the ac-
comodation ofyour children's children. ;
Il am afraid they'll never arrive to
get the good of my cedar chest" inter-
rupted the young person pertly.
IF you have no cheSt,n went on the
good housekeeper, ignoring this side
issue, ''you can put them in an ordin-
airy trunk and put in 10 cents worth of
camphor and defy all the moths in
Christendom.
Il do not like my things smelling of
camphor," objected the young person.
Il like my things smelling of cam
phor better than having no things to
smell of anything" was the satiricaI
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 all 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. Itwon't do to roll asheet around
the middle and leave it open at both
ends. The sheet must thoroughly en-
wrap your things, with no loose cor
ners or cracks. Moths WON'T 90 through
cotton, and if they have no other way
to get at your sealskin they'll 90 with
out it"
II haven't any Sheet" objected the
young person, mischievously. She
wanted to exhaust the resources as well
as the patience of the good houskeeper,
but that laIy was equal to the occasion.
''Well," said she, paper will do just
as well. If you'll save the big sheets
of wrapping paper thatyour new spring
things are now coming home in you
can do up all your winter ones in way
that will battle the most enterprising
moth that ever wiggled."
"But | think they have already got
ten in this jacket"
"They haven't gone far, if they have;
all you need to do is to shake and beat
it out well and then sprinkle it well
with powder before you put it away.
The moth powders are generally good
things
"But they are poisonous, aren't
they?"
LAS harmless as arrowroot. They
don't poison the moths, they sulfocate
them"
And the young person saw no way
out Of being obliged to take care of her
things for once.-NelO York. Graphic.