Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-26

| hate to discourage You, ! fear that
you will 1nd them more difficult to
get rid Of than IL they were only in
the furniture.
Fumigation with sulphur is the pre-
liminary step. Remove the furniture
from the rooms, close t6e doors and
windows tightly and put two sulphur
candles in pans. light them and make
a hasty exit, closing the door tightly
behind you. Do this early in the
morning and leave the room tightly
| shut until late in the afternoon. Then
| open all the windows to let out the
| sulphur fumes and paint all the
cracks with a strong solution of COR
rosive suplimate and wood alcohol.
Before replacing the furniture treat 1t
to a painting of the same solution.
Grease or otherwise protect brass
that must be left in the room, as the
sulphp. fumes will blacken 1t. MARK
the corrosive sublimate bottle pol
son. and be careful o to have a
light in the room until the day after
you have fumigated it).
After the preliminary treatment go
over the room three times a week
with some solution which is recon-
/, mended for that purpose. I will give
you a few of them SO that you may
avoid those whose use has proved
ineffective in your case:
"a Dip a feather or small brush in
oil Of cedar and go over the cracks
and crevices. Shut the doors and
windows and leave the room closed
as long as possible.
(2) Apply the following solution to
every crevice: Corrosive sublimate,
u ouncei spirits of t~urpentine, Y
pint.
90 This one also has beer found
effective: Half an ounce of corrosive
sublimate; half an ounce of pow
dered camphor, half a pint of wood
alcohol and half a pint of turpentine.
Mix these ingredients together in a
large bottle.
4. Naphtha has often been found
very effective. Use a spring bottonf
oil can and spray the cracks in the
walls and woodwork, the lodges of
the doors and windows, the top of
picture moulding, and every crack in
the bed, which should be taken all
apart, the mattress and pillows, etc.
Saturate with the naphtha every
place that'the bugs would be likely 10
be. Caution-There should be no fire
or flame of any kind in the room, as
naphtha is very infiammable. The
windows should be kept open for sew
eral hours after the applications in
order that all the fumes may escape.
5. One housewife recommends a
cupful of turpentine and half a cup
full of ammonia. sprayed freely in the
~crevices of floors and beds, after the
latter have been taken outdoors and
thoroughly scrubbed with soap and
water.
(6) Still another writes that she
tried everything without result until
she was advised to use gasoline, car
bolic acid and oil of cedar. She put
the mixture in a spray and started to
work. The streams from the spray
were 80 fine that not a crack OF
crevice escaped the shower.
% Again one says that everything
failed until in despair she filled all
cracks and crevices with varnish
Since then she has not seen her
friends, the enemy.
Eternal vigilance is the price OF
liberty" so you must keep after these
visitors constantly. They reproduce
quickly. especially during the >hot
weather, and if a truce is declared
for even a week they will come gu
victorious.
Let me warn you to label plainly
the bottles containing poisonous solu-
tons. So many sad accidents have
happened recently from failure to dc
this that one cannot be too careful.