The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-21
POOLING WITH MOTH BALLS.

Moth balls constitute one of the
crowning products of cracked brain
contrivances, says Medical Talk for
June. Round, smooth, white, candy
looking balls, about as big as the brain
of the one who conceived them. War
ranted to saturate a trunk full of
clothes so thoroughly with stencil that
a person of any sensibility would much
rather go and buy new suit of clothes
than to undertake ever to renovate the
old ones.
There is a tradition that moth balls
will protect wooden clothing from the
ravages of moths. This tradition mas
no foundation whatever. except the
lunacy that stencil drives away para
sites of all kind.
Only the other day we saw an old
trunk, in the bottom of which lay
dozen moth balls, a few small wooden
rags and a good-siZed handful OF lnotn
worms. The moth worms were actual
ly reveling in the luxury of moth oalls
as a side dish from their faVorlte
menu of rag chewing.
1t seems too bad, however, TO say
anything against the moth balls. They
are such nice little things to sell. They
make such attractive show-windoW or
namentS for drug stores. Eight or ten
of the pesky little things can be
bought for a cent. The foolish house
wife thinks she is doing something
when she buys the odoriferous null
sance. She carries them home trl-
umphantly She creeps up into the
attic with them and inserts them IN
every box and trunk and Granny where
the winters bedding is packed and
wooden clothes are laid away. win
a smile of sweet faith she deposits
the nasty things with one hand Whlle
she holds her nose with the other' one
is willing to bear the olfactory ordeal
under the delusion that she is saving
her precious wooden fabrics. Next Iali
when she opens the trunk and hnds
her wooden goods intact she will say
to herself: "Ah, the moth balls pro-
tected them.'' She forgets that lne
windows of her home have been care
fully screened that the attic door mas
been kept shut, that the trunks anu
boxes are alright, all OF Whlch nas
protected the clothing against moths.
She forgets this and gives the circuit
to moth balls.
In the meantime she remembers,
when she was a girl, that nouns useu
to eat holes into wooden fabrics. 1hey
did not have moth balls in those DAYS
but they did have screenless WINDOWS
open doors, trunks ulhlhseu' iO
jointed boxes with holes big enough
for humming birds to enter. ms
furnished the moth miller free access
TO deposit the eggs in carpets or coats
or cOunterpanes. u..,o
But in the modern home the little
white moth miller finds no open WIN,
dow TO enter, no crevices TO crswI
through: hence. she stays out me
woman thinks the reason the musty
miller stays out is because OF her meis-
IS moth balls. The moth miller stahas
ready 10 demonstrate the failacy OF
me moth ball az any I'm, ~ s,ilv goose
OF a woman goes night on shutting
out the moth miller, buying nom na ll,
10 schre it away after she mas y sn nv
out. ana giving the moth bail on the
praise ..,..
II any woman wants 10 aehoilsi 49,. ~
the faiiacy 0f moth balls. lei hef 's ..f.,
come 81 the gwgat-euelilpe rphti -
Them with some wooden rags ana is -,
them in sonls Clubhouse - epai ~.
info uhiri the moth can enter. Whll
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