TURPENTINE A MOTH PREVENTIVE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 151, 26 June 1907, Page 8

TURPENTINE A MOTH PREVENTIVE.

It is -foolish, for people to pack clothing and furs away in cedar chests, in. motb bags or encased with clusters of moth balls or camphor, for thfise things are poor expedients at the best. Moths will never settle where there are fresh air and plenty of light, so that clothing which is kept in the cupboards and frequently exposed to the air and sunshine will be freer from the destroying moths, than those garments which are kept packed carefully with a lot of compounds which- will do* little for the clothing save impart a. disagreeable- odour to it. It is not always possible, however, to Steep winter clothing, for example, around the house during the summer—cu-pboards are generally so small that it is apt to be very mucl in the way. It has to be packed, but for this purpose a trunfi is better than anything else. Brush the garments carefully, even taming the pockets inside out and treating them to the brush, and then place the clothing in the trunk, putting sheets of newspaper between the garments. Moths do not (ike this paper, and it is sufficient to induce any moth to fly that may have found lodgment on the cloth to turn up its wings and die; but if one wants to make assurance doubly sure, a trifling, juantity of turpentine sprinkled on the sides and bottom of the trunk will absolutely prevent any moths living on the raiments that are packed there. It may even be sprinkled on the clothng if one desires, for the turpentine will not injure the most delicate fabric, or »lours, and the odour vanishes, almost is soon as they are exposed to4he-air.