Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-07-27
THE suFFALo MOTH.


Usw - Externsinate u without the Use -
Tabacco or Csmphor.
Many doliars are wasted every year
IN stores OF gum-canphor and OF snuff
and shredded tobacco, By whose
strong. pungent and repcllent odors
she enemies Of our clothing are sup
posed 10 be driven away, the good
housewife making point OF filling
pockets with tobacco and camphor.
and OF laying bits OF cloth soaked In
spirits Of turpentine between the folds
OF her treasures. almost every woman
having different method OF her own.
But the truth IL that none OF these
methods are necessary and they owe
the reputation OF their efficacy se.ely
to the care with which they are carried
out. II II that care. and only that
care, which expels the eggs hidden
away already In convenient places.
and keeps out the mother moth so
that abe can not BE- the means Of work
ing further damage. A method OF
keeping furs and other articles unin-
jurcd. which Is per ectly eiYectual. Is
one which requires no tobacco or
camphor or druz whatever; II Is simply
the ounce OF prevention. Let each
article 10 hung on the line outdoors.
shaken well and long. and then
4 whipped with slender rod; this pro-
cess viii expel every egg that has
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.
ana the edgo OF the papers gummed
with starch or mucilage. so that the
mother moth can not find an entrance
20 lay other eggs. and II Is certain
that the garments will be taken out In
the fall. entirely whole and sound.
This bf course presupposes that the
wrapping has been so complete
that the mother moth can find
NO crevice through which 10 CREEP
and deposit her eggs thereafter. and
that the eggs already laid have beer
beaten out OF the clothes II thess
eggs have not been disposed OF, all III.
tobacco OF America or camphor Of ASH
wflls mot hinder the worms hatches
from cggs remaining in the clothes
from eating TIL Il II time for them t,
spln. and from riddling their shelte
with lioles. IL being always understoo'
thai she'iiitle flying mother moth doe
hone. OF this eating and destroying
her object beirg only to deposit he
eggs, and the worms Matched frou
these eggs--which after their ow
Transformation become winged being
doing all. the destruction befor
thes put on wings. But 1t IL eviden
thai II the eggs have been shaken an
whipped out. then there are ceTtainl
none there Ia hatch and work mi,
chic; and II the mother moth, whic
sometimes seems 70 be the cummings
and most contriving of created thing
can not get Ia In order TO lay any mon
eggs. there will be no new ones laie
and safety Ia thus rs we'll insured as
one expended MI the superauo,
change in the family In the purchas
Of tarred bags and malodorous drug
or paid insurance money 10 the dea
ers. whose only secret OF preservatie
Il, after all. the taking OF simili
pains. Nevertheless. In places whel
there are dealers who are willing
take fnrs and insure them for sma
sum OF money. restoring them as goo
In the fall as when they took them.
IL q great comfort and saving
nervous worry TO. place them in su.
capable hands, knowing no furth
sanxtsty about them. and sure OF r
ceiving them or their equivalent 4
right on the approach OF cold weathe
--Harper's Bazaar