Show A remedy for moths we were examining our wardrobe after the summer bummer and found to our surprise and frien grief many of our choicest articles of apparel sadly damaged by the in the midst of our trouble and the discussion as to the modes of protection against moths which had been handed down by tradition aunt julia came in aunt julia how do you keep your 5 our winter clothing from tile the moths we both asked eagerly 1 BS s that good lady proceeded to lay aside her handa smile ome shawl which looked as fresh as ever after seven beven years wear aiu aused sed to suffer from moths as much as any an one replied aunt julia taking her little basket a and hid fid sitting down but I 1 found a recipe in in an old fashioned book which has relieved me of much solicitude on the subject it was many years vears vears years before I 1 could be persuaded to try it if III in my oung days money was not quite so plenty as nov now but provisions were cheap and a fa farmers daughter began lier her married life better supplied with linen blankets blan bian kats and bed quilts than many a jewel j wel wei decked city belle As I 1 was an only daughter tai tei and was not married too oung duag young a noble pile of blankets feather beds bed quilts c became my portion for mary mady man y years after vo we removed to the city I 1 used to dread my summers work of airing the beds and packing away fine homemade home bome made blankets and nd quilts stuffed with softest down I 1 tried murf muff tobacco camphor pepper and cedar chips and yet as ve ave changed our place of residence everad tims times tim s some colony of moths old equal squatters tais among the beams of tile the garret ia la some unobserved scrap of woollen cloth cioth would perforate t ini holes in in my choicest possessions why aunt julia I 1 thought you had a cedar closet I 1 yes when we moved into our new house but by that time flipe my closet was too small for my increased erased wealth and till I 1 used this recipe I 1 seldom pasi passed ed a year without some most holes but now I 1 have gave not seen one in nine idne years what was it aunt have yon ali aly the book bo or can 5 you ou repeat it from j your our memory 7 Itis it is toolate to save these things but I 1 will write it down and aryit try it next spring so saying anna took out her j little recipe book and pencil while aunt julia prepared to record the moth preventive the book was an old onedith one with the title obliterated and tiie the title page worn out by some careless child but the directions were these lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth where mth enoth and rust doth corrupt but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal oh aunt julia is is that till all how das daa that help the mat matter terl V y f wait anna and hear my story out onedas one day a as s I 1 was mourning over my choicest blankets eaten by the moths and airing my down bed quilts galita and feather beds which had llad been rendered obsolete by the introduction of spring mattresses aas its I 1 stood ready to cry with vexation to see my rny choicest article eaten inthe lathe most conspicuous places as you have experienced today to day my eye rested on an old bible which lay on tiie the top of a barrel carrel of pamphlets in the garret popeyed it and almost unconsciously read the tile recipe for avoiding moths which winch I 1 have given today I 1 then them recollected that they hemom sel eel om troubled the clothing in frequent use uge uses and that the tiie articles which h ca caused used me so much care were not needed twice a year I 1 then thought of sophia baker with i ith her large family and sick husband they had bad been burned out tile the spring before and were just entering upon a cold long winter of poverty I 1 sat down and writing her a note sent hersko her two too ieather leather feather beds and four blankets and an old fashioned that thit very day and two more bian lian I 1 dispatched dida ditched itched to a poor old rheumatic bilge t ori whose destitution had nov ney never nover e r occurred to lne ine me before I 1 I 1 then thew began to breathe freel yand before another week two more blankets were gone to comfort tired limbs and aching hearts tile the castoff cast off coats cloaks and old pieces of carpeting which had long lain in my garret were given to the deserving poor A bag of woollen stockings and socks which had llad been kept for cleaning brass we resent to a charity institution never uever again to become i atema clemp tation to the moths I 1 inquired particularly the next year and found tile the beds and blankets were III in such ruch excellent preservation r that I 1 cheerfully taid laid up more of my surplus U oplus money in heaven and out of the way of f moth and mould my aly cedar closet and trun trunks ks hold all I 1 wish to preserve aud aad when they begin to run over I 1 commit more articles to the keep ing of my widowed and f lances 1 but aunt julia yours isa is a peculiar case you had the homemade home made outfit of a farmers daughter and could not expect to make use of it besides the bible does not encourage wasting our goods extravagantly 1 11 I do not think the bible leans to what is called extravagant side the rest of the chapter following the verse I 1 have quoted gives little encouragement to much forethought either in food or raiment and in another place says he that hath lath two coats let him impart to him that hath none th this rule leaves very little to pack away in a cedar closet III in my opinion gods providence is far from encouraging extensive accumulation either of money among christians fire and food drought drou glit mildew and moth stand ready to rebuke that spirit of covetousness which the lord P surely aunt julia you would not have me give away the new furs that thai you gave me last win terl lerl 1 no my child but let us examine for a moment this moth eaten pile here flere are three coats ol 01 your husbands which lie he can never possibly weir wear agon agan eg ain r those are for fishing aunt now how often does he fishl once III in four or five years said Anna looking slight slightly lk biscom discomfited cited well here is a big of outgrown out grown shrunken s socks and stockings and these old dresses of adas and these overcoats of the boys that I 1 heard you say were unfit to wear even in the play ground a and nu besides I 1 think you remarked that tile tiie difficulty originated in an old carpet which has been harboring moths many years when it might have been out of harms way upon some poor widows floor weli veil vell well aunt I 1 belive you anre half brigit try my rule anna not after your property is ruined but when you find you can spare it even at the risk of or sending some of or your treasure to lima flea heaven veil vell before you have obtained all you could from its itsue uwe use many an ar old garret have I 1 known to be infested with moths ruining hundreds of or dollars worth ot of valuable articles when tile the whole evil might be traced to an old coat or carpe carpet selfishly or carelessly w withheld from the poor 1 we are god 4 stewards and our luxuries ire not given us to fi fed fied ed u covetousness which maybe may be increased ten hales limes before the great day of or final account vilen alien k how liow to ti prevent moths I 1 always long ta say lay up your treasures trea sues in heaven because I 1 have found from experience it is a sure and convenient way well aunt I 1 own I 1 never have thought much a bout about it before as a matar of or christian duty I 1 will try before another year to confine my care to the articles I 1 need and shall hope for better belter success ex |