Exit The Silverfish
Dear Aunt Daisy, I thought I would pass this little hint on to you for what it may be worth, I may even have heard it from you in the first place-I don’t know; but wherever I saw or heard of it, it has proved a great boon to me. Our house is almost over-run with silverfish, and some of my linen had been badly spoilt. Each time I lifted the linen out I lifted also about a dozen silverfish. Now this is all I did to get rid of them. I gathered some pennyroyal, while in flower, and put it at the back of the cupboard; and I haven’t seen any silverfish in that cupboard since! Easy, isn’t it? I didn’t dry the pennyroyal first, just picked it and put it in the cupboard. I intend to gather a lot this year and put it in bags in all the drawers and cupboards, and under the carpet-just sprinkling some under that, of course. What a lovely letter you put in your "Mail Bag," Aunt Daisy, from that splendid woman with the two boys who are so handicapped in life by the loss of their legs.-" Dorothy" (Te Aroha).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 46
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202Exit The Silverfish New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 46
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