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MOTHS dying about the house

cause tremendous damage, Let's organise a moth hunt, for soon grubs will have found a snug home in the depths of fur coats or be happily cating their way through blankets and cur- tains unless we do something about them now.

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An ounce of prevention is worth pounds of cure when dealing with. inoihs, because they can do so much damage to such things as carpets

and chair covers.

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Cracks & Crevices

This is an old house, and last sum- mer 100 were pestered with moths, which seemed to come from skirtings and floors.

MOTUS frequently lay eggs in the M dusty crevicen behind skirtings und in oor boards. I think you would find it a good plan to fill gaps in, the floor with plastly wood and the space behind the skirting with

of Paris, mixed plaster

to a s paste with water.

Keep carpets, rugs and upholstered furniture free of dust by regular

This frocit uses the choir boy lop with white collor and skirt - attached to bodice, which has box pleats und waistline there is a drawstring section. It is in navy and white sheer print,

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or brushing, and stronger than ordinary moth balls. 11 day with kills all grubs and eggs of moths and once each room liquid insecticide, particularly round other household pests. the floors and skirtings.

with hot water Wash woodwork

The 'cartridges have ribbon loops containing a little paraffia or house so that you can hang them in the hold disinfectant. Fur Coats

My fur coat was new last winter. Can you tell me the best way to store ira

yr is wise keep furs in a moth- proof bag, made of paper im- pregnated with a special substance inde to repel moths.

wardrobe, and they can also be used to protect the plano felts. They cost threepence each, and I have posted fuller details.

Blankets in Store

I am putting areap blankets' and winter clothes. What is the best way to prevent moth getting at them!

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Before putting it away, brush the cont thoroughly and clean the collar with toilet eBu-de-Cologne. Then to be attacked, especially if they dust powder Insecticide into the fur; are put away without being cleaned,

it is an additional protection and is Winter clothes should be sent to the easily brushed out when the cost is cleaners, or carefully brushed and to be worn again.

sponged to remove grense spots, and blankets washed,

Wardrobe Protection

What

can I use to keep ateau moths? They just make whoopee in my wardrobe.

THERE is a new moth cartridge reented with lavender and cedar

Is three hundred which

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Sprinkle powder insecticide in the folds of blunkets, seat them first in newspaper, then in brown paper, and store the closely sealed parecls in a cool, dry cupboard.

Hang clothing over the line to air you wash the Interiors of

times while

Light Soups For Summer

warm weather a plate of soup, of the lighter variety, is acceptable. Try the very following. which

are very easily made:

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Veteet Soup

Melt 2 tablespoons margurine in lined pan, add 2 teaspoons flour and mix well. Gradually add 2 teacups milk, stirring all the lime, I the mixture is quite smooth; then add breakfastcups white stock, season with salt and pepper, and boil up.

Just before serving, beat up 2 yolks

altje of the of eggs with soup, pour into remainder of soup, then add 1 tablespoon cream. Heat. but do not bolt again. Serve with:-

Fried Brend Crontons

To make these, cut sliced bread)

USEFUL TIPS-

COAP IS excellent for cleaning

stone, cement, and brick floors. Wipe over the floor with a thick lather, then rub with a dry cloth or mop. Do not rinse. If plenty soup is used nli dirt and grease will vanish and the Boor will shine when dry.

Tea and coffee stains can be re- moved by using glycerine. If the stain is old, soak in glycerine. for some time, then wash, in wurm wo- ter

Chocolate stains may be taken out by sprinkling with powdered "borax. soaking in cold water, and then ap. plying the same treatment us for the coffee stan. Egg stains should be washed in cold water.

Grease stains may require an up- of benzine, but extreme plication care should be used in handling this! Auic.

Ribbon will dry flat and require!

into small Ulex of triangular ro homing if it is smoothed round pieces, and fry lightly in sucking a bottle after washing.

hot fat. Drain on paper, and serve

piled up on a separate dish,

Spinach Soup

Have Un spinach puree, add it to 1 pint white stock or meat boll- bring to the boil. In o Ings, and lined pan, melt i oz butter, stir in 1

DZ flour,

Cook for a few seconds, then slow- badd the mixed spinach and stock, When the Soup has thickened add pint milk. Season with pep per and sait, and serve very hot. Rice and Tomato Soup

Add o ile salt to the water when washing new stockings.

June 30,

1939.

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MOTHS

wardrobes with household disinfec

Fumlection can be done with a

tant or spray with liquid insectleide, special fumigating black or with a sulphur candle, which is put on a tin Leave to air for several hours be- teny ruled on two bricks. fore putting back the clothes,

Winter coats can be lightly sprayed with insecticide, whlel will not stain if the nozzle of the sprayer is held at least two feet from the garment.

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Sulphur has a tendency to bleach fabrics mud discolour metal, so take own curtains and remove, as much furniture as possible. Smear metal- work which cannot be moved willi vaseline. Sent the door after light-

It is a good plan to air both clothing the candle and leave the room ing and blankets over the line for ↔ few hours once or twice in the course unopened for twelve hours.

of the summer.

Troublesome Ants

First Aid for Carpets ·

Is there any effective way of get-

We are invaded by ants from the ting rid of moth grubs in a carpet? garden as soon as the summer be- STEAMING will usually kind grubs Wins.

and exits. Lay some wet towel-

THE only real cure is to locate the ling over a section of the carpet and neat and destroy it by saturate press it with a hol Iran until dry. ing it with parafin, but you might Repent until the whole of the car- give the paths frequent applications pet has been cavered, then take up of boiling water as well.

the carpet and stean the underside Make shallow trenches, one to two wash the floor with water containing in the same way, Before relaying. inches deep, round the house and household disinfectant and leave to soak these with parafin. Ants will dry

nat cross them as a rule.

Cure by Fumigation

It would also be wise to put down

mothproof underlny,

We have been troubled with some In the Upholstery

amali creatures which took rathert like meths. They do not fly. but dart about quickly.

One of our cam chairs has been attacked by moth.

FROM your description the insects FIRST brush the chair thoroughly. appear to be silverfish. The then sterni il in the same way as quickest method of getting rid of the carpet mentioned above. Next them is by fumigation.

push moth cartridges or small.mus- lin bags led with crystals of para- woodwork and floors with a special crevices.

First paint all crevices in walls, dichlorober.zine into the chair

preparation, then paste strips of

If the chair is badly infested it paper over the window-frame to

ecp out air and close the register may be necessary to have it re of the fire-place.

stuffed and re-covered.

We turn back the book to Grandmother's day for these hos- tess gowns. They are really authentic Victorian prints resur- rected from old pattern books of the 1800's. Both of muslin, soft, colour-fast and pre-shrunk, the gown at left is a sentimental, embroidery-trimmed ouint printed in a dellente pattern of wreaths and bow-knots. At right, a hostess coat in a flowery wall-paper

siripe, with puffed sleeves,

Summer Floral "Blues

Brushes that are in constant ureUMMER is the time of blue containers, for the white glaze en- is summer's hances the subtle tints of the flowers should be washed once a mouth in flowers, for blue warm soapy water, then rinsed in colour. All the delightful tints that while the diape of the vase, has an cold water to which a little solt has graduate down the tonal scale are been added.

now making florists' shops and gar- A paraffin duster is useful, for it dens gay. polishes the furniture, and prevents

A room -decorated with blue the dust from @ying about. Soak a clean duster in purain and hang it flowers is restful to the nerves and outside to dry. When quite dry it cheerful to the eye, and there are so is ready for use.

many different shodes that even if A paraffin rag will clean galvants- you have blue flowers all through the house the effect need not be a Have a pint of real or muttoned pata in few minutes.

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old-world air that is in perfect keep- ing with such homely little blooms.

Use a multiple wire holder big enough to fill the vase and put the flowers into this. It will keep them in position, so that they do not fall to one alde.

and

Glans is a good medium for mid- blue flowers such as cornflowers and love-in-a-mist. It is too shiny for it does not too neutral for dark ones, for it does not give a strong enough contrast.

blues For deep

purplish shades, matt cream ware is best, for offers a solidlytoned foll to the

harsh surface of the new stippled pottery is also an excellent offret to the vivid blues of some cineraries, claritina, and Tarkopur.

TAXI DANCER ROBBED billings Place in a lined pan with and miti can be used for coating

1 az whole rice, well washed, and sh or cutlets instend of an egg.

It is not necessary to adhere strizi- fresh tomatoes, wiped and cut into White tile should be cleaned with ly to the true blues if you want to Enticed to Roof of House Alices. Boil slowly for half an hour,

an all-blue, floral scheme. paraffin, thon polished with devise stirring occasiotially. Then

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furniture creum. Stalns can be re- The pinky blue and lavender blues In. Wanchai

through a sieve. Hient again, re-rea-

grade them properly when arranging Under the pretext that a European son, and it will be ready for serving moved with a plece of lemon dipped can all be used, provided. that you friend of Kwan Hing-hing, dance

No doubt you clean your shoes re-them, and they will add to your

choice of blooms and give hostess of the Lido Cabaret; was

xularly, but to do the job really ef- looking for her, George Wong, allas Dirty Wong, enticed Kwon to the On the frying pan. Thla keeps the occasionally with damp cloth, De careful what you put the roof of a house in Lockhart Rood, steam in, and the contents cook more and as soon as they are dry a little towers Into; though, if you want and there allegedly robbed her of quickly, Incidentally, it also saves polish should be applied and the them to retain the full beauty of her jowellery.

choos rubbed thoroughly with n vel-their tones- Wong was committed for trial by many grease. splashes on the stove.

When roasting meat in oven, vet pad. A beautiful gloss will re- Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central take a piece of suet, and suspend it suit. Magistracy yesterday on a charge of on nment hook above the roust, having robbed Kwan of a gold wrist This will ensure a constant dripping watch and a gold finger ring, with of fat on to the meat, and no other violence.

basting will be needed. Inspector W. N. Durkin sald on March 5 Wong called on Kwan at Wong threatened Kwan that if she the Lido cabaret, and asked her to go would not give him the Jewellery, with him to Wanchal, as a European he would slab her, but no weapon friend of hers wanted to see her. was found on him. Wong took her to a root of a house arrested on Information. corroborated in Lockhart Road, and robbed her of{: Kwan

Darkin's statement,

When trying, place a saucepan lid ficiently. they should be wiped overite variety of design you an in depth of colour in the flowers. The]

the jewellery.

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If you have any pewter mugs and beakers put scablous, mallow, and other bluish-mauve blooms in them,! for they will blend well with the greyness of the metal.

You should keep blue flowers by themselves If you want to get the full value of their colouring. Other The Intest shell-patterned vases tinta will break up the intensity of mado in white glazed pottery are the blue and so rob it of a lot of that excellent for small flowers that need quality of richness that is its chief to be spread out well to look effec- asset for floral decoration.

and ve Forget-me-nols look charmingly, fengile in

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