The Jersey City news., 1902-06-05


with cotton or tough paper bags, o-d
linen sheets and mammoth sheets OF
newspaper pasted securely together, with
cotton batting and oil of cedar. and
good, tight storeroom closet, the house
wife of today no longer packs away her
winter furs with fear and trembling, but
with perfect confidence that they will
come out from the summer seclusion
fresh and attractive and without the odor
Of camphor.
The great secret of keeping furs is in
c.eaning them thoroughly before they are
nut away. If a moth or moth egg goes
with them into the closet or chest an ele-
CANT garment may be quickly spoiled. The
greatest care should be taken, therefore
to beat and comb the furs clean before
stering them away. For this purpose a
slender, strong stick and a regular fur
comb may be used.
If room il abundant an especially dark
closet may be given up to the keeping OF
furs. In this case, paper it all over. top
and bottom. with tar paper. covering this
with second coat of newspaper to pre-
vent sticking Here the garments may
hang without crushing or wrinkiing, and
from here they can be readily taken our
once month and examined.
Failing fur closet, however-and few
there are who can attain that luxury
a clean. tight barrel, or a chest whose
interior has been carefully pasted over
with tar paper and newspaper, VIII
answer very well. If reduced to the ex-
tremity of a pastenoard box any of the
numerous moth preventives may be used,
care being taken to sew them in bags or
wrap them in tissue paper. to prevent
contact with the fur and consequent dis
coloration.
If old linen sheets are to be used for
wrapping the furs before placing in the
closet. barrel or box, as the case may be,
they should be old enough to keep for
this purpose from year to year, as they
will not be fit for use on the beds after
their summers service in the fur storing,
moth preventive. Although it is custom
airy to saturate small balls of cotton bat
ting with the oil of cedar and pin them
TO the sheets it IS almost impossible to
confine the oil to the batting, and the
sheets viii come from the storeroom bad
ly stained, which will not hurt them,
however, if they are simply to be laid
away for another summers use in the
fur closet. Many object to this oil of
cedar because of its strong odor, but this
soon passes off after the furs are taken
from the storeroom. In fact, it does not
cling to them after thorough ventilation
half so long as the odor of camphor and
many other moth preventives.
Newspaper sheets are often more high
ly recommended than the cotton or linen
sheets for wrapping the expensive furs
before packing them away. 1t is claimed
that there is something about the prin-
ters' ink that proves disagreeable to the
moths. The sheets must be carefully pre-
pared, however In order to make thera
large enough to wrap the large furs se-
curely the papers must be pasted to form
sheets. and this pasting must be firm, so
that not a crack will be left through
which a moth may find chance to enter
It is best to have two or three of the
newspaper sheets for each large fur gar
ment, and after wrapping securely in one
place in another and wrap so that the
opening will come on the opposite side.
Large, tough paper bags will be the
best receptacle for the fur collars and coll
larettes and small capes. Small particles
of the favorite moth preventive may ne
wrapped and placed in the bottom of the
bag, the fur collar laid upon this. then
more wrapped particles of the preven-
tive and the fur cuffs or other small ar
>ticles, with the preventive scattered over
he top. No matter what preventive is
&lsed. it is best not to have it come in df-
lEect contact with the fur. although it NAV
&aot leave the reddish stain peculiar to the
4 Il Of cedar. there is danger of discolora-
Jon. and 1t is always safest to wrap the
saturstions in waxed paper and the
balls or powders in tissue paper before
Iplacing among the furs Strong tough
paper bags. such as are used by butchers
may often be secured large enough to
take several small garments, but If these
are not convenient smaller bags NAV be
used 10 hold separate articles In either
case the bag must be securely sealed af-
ter packing, in order to make it doubly
secure against any possible entrance of
the tiniest moth. 1t will be we'll to fold
the mouth of the bag over and sew 1t in
place, and then give final pasting to
keep it firm.
A wire form. such as dressmakers use,
is one of the very best stands for the
thorough cleaning of furs. The small
pieces. like the collars, cuffs. etc, may be
satisfactorily cleaned with a heavy
clothesbrush by laying acress the lap and
turning and twisting and brushing every
possible crevice but a standing frame is
necessary for the larger pieces. especially
for the long fur coats. When 5uttoned
over the wire frame every particle of the
fur can be reached from the tip OF the
standing collar to the bottom of the coat
A whisk broom is the best brush for these
long coats If the fur Is Of the close. short
nap variety. or one of the seal pushes
TIE short fur Of the standing collars of
the seal cspes should be thoroughly clean
ed with coarse comb and a brush as
they will collect dust and provide safe
hiding place for the moths.
IT Is important to use care in brushing
the sealskin capes and coats. brushing up-
ward or 1.-The right way Of the fur as
professional would express It. The var
ious furs that require downward stroke
to brush the fur in the right direction
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