TO CLEAN AND KEEP FURS
The time is coming when furs will have to be laid aside for several months. .Before this is dono tliey ought to be well cleaned, states an Australian writer. . An expensiye fur coat or stolo may bei sent to the cleaner's, but it is scarcely worth while, spending money on inexpensive furs> when they can bo cleaned at-home. White fur is best cleaned with powdered chalk. Put the in tho oven till it is quite hot. fcprmkle >it all over the fur; leave it there till it is quite ■ cool. Take a clean, fresli brusli, and brash well in the contrary sense to which the fur lies, so as to make the chalk penetrate well. Then take a light cane beater and beat till 110 trace of. the powder remains. For dark furs use precisely the s ? m ,? mo w lci( ?s,' substituting hot. brail for chalk. When the furs have been carefully cleaned, put two or three mothballs with eacii fur garment. Then wrap each garment separately in plenty of fresh newspaper, rolling up the edges all • round so'as to'prevent the smallest'aperture. Put the packages into a box, fill up the corners , and' vacant spaces with newspapers, and fasten tightly. A stout cardboard bos suffices, ' if it is well , tied up. Newspaper is the best of all wrappings for protecting clothes, from moths. They apparently find the taste of ink particularly disagreeable, and make no effort to cat their way through ■ the . paper. However, it is just as well to use moth balls as a further precaution,-;in case there should be a small aperture in the wrappings.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2564, 11 September 1915, Page 11
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273TO CLEAN AND KEEP FURS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2564, 11 September 1915, Page 11
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