The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1891-02-27
1T DIMES OFF WOOL AND FUR.
An Old aousekeeper's Advice on Battling
with Motifs

"Vell,'' said the careless young per-
son resignedly as she looked yesterday
at her sealskin. jacket and her otter
trimmed suit, = suppose the moths
will play the mischief with all my win
ter things before next season."
What makes you think that9" de-
manded the good housekeoper..- ,...
..They always do;'' replied the care
less young person in tones that indi-
Gated thaE she felt a certain sad pride
in being singled out by fate as VIC
tim.
"That is nonsense-perfectn nonsense"
said the good housekeeper in most un-
sympathetic tones. ''If you lived in a
properly regulated house you wouldn't
know whit moth looks like. lnever
have them in my house. How do I
keep them out? By simply not giving
them anything to live in or on: don't
make nests of woolen rags around ON
purpose for their accommodation. L
don't have anything woolen around in
summer except things in daily use.
take up the carpets of the rooflls notln
use OF sometimes | 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 it
around in the less frequented corners.
''How do keep them out of the car
pets after they are taken up?
81 don't know how I'd get them in
unless l 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, aud there. il. is for the ac-
corlodation of your childrer's children.
81 am afraid they'll never arrive to
get the good of my cedar chest" inter-
fupted the young person pertly. i.
s.If you have no chest,'' went on the
good housckeeper, ignoring this side
issue, ''you can put them in an ordin-
ary trunk and put in 10 cents worth of
camphor and defy all the moths in
Christendom." "
81 do not like my things smelling of
camphor," objected the young person.
81 like my tltirgs smelling of cam
smell of anything,". was the satirical
can1phor.. If you'll just do mp your
wrap them all up in one big sheet,
you'll be perfectly safe-or you would
be if you had some one with a grain of
common sense to do up the bundle for
you. 1t won't do to roll sheet 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 go through
cotton, and if they have no other way
to get at your sealskin they'll go with
out it" <~,r ,.,---....,. -.---... -.s
81 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 lady was equal to the occasion.
"Well," said she, "paper will do just
as we'll. If you'll save the big sheets
of wrapping paper that your 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 we'll and then sprinkle it we'll
with powder before you put it away.
The moth powders are generally good
things"
''Bat they are poisonous, aren't
they
LAS harmless as alrowroot. They
don't poison the moths, they suffocate
them"
And the voting person saw no way
out of being obliged to lake care of her
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