Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-07-16
TIE BUFFALO @o,H.
No. tn Exterminate II without tue oss
Tobscco or Camphor.

Tobacco OF
MANY dollars are wasted every yea"
in stores of gum-camphor ana OF sn"n
and shredded tobacco, oy "nose
strong. pungent and repelleh' odo''
tho enemies of our clothing are sup
no .ed to be driven away. the goou
housewife making point OF ming
nockets with tobacco and camphor'
and of laying bits OF cIoth soaReu ~
snir;ts of ,urpentine between the iolos
Of her treasures. almost every woman
having different method oil her own
But the truth is that none OF THESE
methods are necessary and theS owe
the reputation OF their efficacy so'eiy
TO the care with which they are carried
ont. Ii is that care, and only thae
care which expels the eggs hldoeh
away already in convenient Places
and keeps out the mother moth so
that she can not be the means OF work
ing further damage. method OF
keeping furs and other articles uhih-
iured, which is perfectly effectuai. Is
one which requires no tobacco or
camphor or drug whatever; it Is SIMPLY
the ounce OF prevention. Let each
article be hung on the line outdoors.
shaken we'll and long. and then
whipped with slender rod; this pro-
cess will expel every egg that mas
been laid in its recesses. That done
let the article be Immediately folded
away in several layers OF news
papers, or, indeed. Of any stout paper
and the edge of the papers gummed
with starch or mucilage, so that the
mother moth can not find an entrance
to lay other eggs, and 1t Is certain
that the garments will be taken out III
the fall entirely whole and sound.
This of course presupposes that the
wrapping has been so complete
| that the mother moth can md
no crevice through which to creep
and deposit her eggs thereafter, and
that the eggs already laid have been
beaten out OF the clothes. If these
eggs have not been disposed OF, all the
tobacco of America or camphor of Asia
will not hinder the worms matched
from eggs remaining in the clothes
from eating till it is time for them t.
spin. and from Kidding their shelter
with holes. it being always understood
that the little flying mother moth doe
none OF this eating and destroying
her object being only to deposit he
eggs, and the worms Matched from
these eggs-which after their own
transformation become winged being
doing all the destruction befor'
they put on wings. But it is eviden
that if the eggs have been shaken ant
whipped out. then there are certainl,
none there to hatch and work mis-
chief; and if the mother moth. whicl
sometimes seems to be the cummings
and most contriving of created things
can not get in in order to lay any NOR
eggs, there will be no new ones laid
and safety is thus as well insured as
one expended all the superhuOu
change in the family in the purchas
of tarred bags and malOdOrous drugs
or paid insurance money to the dea
ers, whose only secret of preservatio
!. is, after all, the taking OF simila
pains. Nevertheless, in places wher
there are dealers who are willing ,
take furs and insure them for sma
sum. of money. restoring them as GOO
, in the fall as when they took them,
| is great comfort and saving
: nervous worry to place them in sue
capable hands, knowing no furth,
! anxiety about them. and sure of r
| ceiving them or their equivalent q
right on the approach of cold weathe
, --Harper's Bazai.