The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-13

turned INSIDE out III your chase lot
moths. let this be done at once. There
is no measure of precaution so efficient
as this If 1t be we'll done.
Each closet should be emptied and its
contents put in one place, not mixed
with other articles nor dragged over the
house The shelves and walls and
every nook and Granny should then be
gone over with a half and half mix
ture of turpentine and kerosene. You
won't like the odor, but it won't hurt
you. and it win destroy insect life. TO
be effective, this mixture should be put
on with a broad brush as whitewash
is, and it must get into every crack
of the plaster and wood or paper. Next,
the contents of the closet are taken in
a sheet to the sunny spot in the yard,
and there@beaten and busted till entire
~ clean. Wooden garments are special
~ examined for moth worms and eggs,
and, when above suspicion, are folded
in papers, securely sealed and laid in
a trunk till next winter
The articles still in use, the band
boxes, umbrellas, shoes and what not
are returned very clean to their closet,
the door is closed tight, and the next
closet attacked.
This should be done in March, but In
any case it should precede the spring
cleaning Later on even the spring
woolens are as carefully put away. By
this method a careful housekeeper has
entirely Invested a moth infected house
(Which was once her despair of every
trace of the pests. She has not had a
garment touched by them in many
years, and this in closets from which
they at one time came in hundreds.
1t is the early watchfulness and the
putting away of woolens entirely free
xa-hfr n her Judgment
has conquered the foe.
Some parents think the duty of a
baby is to provide amusement for the
family circle, says the Philadelphia
Ledger.
At 6 to s months old, short petticoat-
ed little persons are expected to do
'parlor tricks" at afternoon parties.
The moment they learn to say goo
goo" they have to go through the per-
Torrance twenty times day to relays
of visitors.
1t makes a baby happy to "goo-goo'
for his own amusement. When he has
to show off his little accomplishment
it becomes a lash and a strain on his
small brain.
Many mothers appear to think it the
mission of a small child to be a kind
of family social entertainer for dull
days and dull people.
This kind of excitement is a serious
cause of i'll health and peevish temper.
No baby is fit to play the leading
part in a drawing room "at home" 1t
wears him out to be constantly dressed
up and constantly trotted out at tea
parties.
Some mothers and nurses are never
happy till baby begins to take notice"
Long before nature intended him to
show interest in anything but his feed
ing bottle he is reused to an artificial
enthusiasm by having a tinkling rattle
shaken eternally before his long suf-
fering eyes.
This nerve stimulation is a. form Of
nursery dram drinking
No healthy baby under months
needs to be amused by painted mon
keys on sticks. 1t bores him to use his
brain. Why can't we let him alone?
Kept warm and properly fed, he is
quite content, without constantly play
ing peep" and rafting rattles. When
he wants to play with things and mo
tice,' he will soon let you know 1t.
We hear much nowadays of highly
strung" children, who are nervous, 4"
who cannot sleep and are fretful and
cross habtually. Yet some of these at
years of age are accomplished skirt
fashionable weddings and fairs, to say
nothing of the hours spent in crowded
streets and stores when mother goes
shopping.
Twentieth century children are
bound to face severe comp tition, and
the nerve strain should not begin in
their nursery days.
If you want happy healthy children,
wholesome, clever and natural, do not
let them do parlor tricks in their baby
days.
"One of the most curious outcomes
of American traditions and inherited
independence is the way young women
who are in the same social set are,
to use a homely expression. brought
up said matron to a representative
of the New York Tribune. "In no
country in the world is such a wide
divergence practiced, or indeed, would
be permitted, as is seen here in what
is called the better class. In England
or France there is one law for all. A
young girl whose people are in society
must be strictly shielded from con-
tact with the outside world but in
America it seems to depend altogether
upon the wealth, convenience or the
individual opinions of her parents.
Very rich people of social position
adopt, as a rule, the transatlantic
Ideas about their daughters. A maid
must invariably attend her young mis-
tress on her shopping expeditions and
her walks She must never, on any ac-
count, enter any public conveyance,
not even a hanson, while streetcars
or omnibuses are, of course, strictly
tabooed. In fact, so strictly is this
latter rule adhered to by some people