TAKE CARE OF YOUR BOOKS
GIVE THEM AN AIRING. Besides dust, your books have two other enemies —apart from careless readers! —heat and damp. Heat warps the bindings, and makes the leaves curl over, and damp is even more disastrous. Try to keep all your books in a dry room, and never pack them 100 tightly on the shelves, which should be backed even if the. fronts are left open. Books are temperamental, and suffer acutely from lack of ventilation, so if yours live in a closed cage, be sure to leave the doors open now and again, to give them an airing, particularly on sunny days. They will appreciate this. When you are Agoing to have a real field day, and overhaul all your books, turn thein out into a clothes basket, then take them out-of-doors to air and dust each one. Wash the empty bookcase with warm soapy water and a clean cloth, then polish the shelves to prevent the books sticking when you put them back. Next look over your heroes stationed in the clothes basket, and give them a little individual attention. That poor thing is mildewed! Well, it can be removed with a clean rag if in the early stages, and the book preserved from further attack by lightly wiping the covers with spirits of wine.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1940, Page 8
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