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Show Getting Boady for Summer. Remember that these are the davs when the early hot iron, the insect now-derand now-derand the napthaline cube and other discouragers catch the early grub or moth fly. Napthaline is a pretty white substance, one of the latter day rivals to camphor for making woolens and furs secure. An ounce of prevention for the next week, by scouring out all closets and thoroughly beating the woolen clothes that must still hang there, until May is established in warmth, will be worth pounds of camphor and fretting by and by. Use a stiff wing instead of a stick for scraping in any cracks there may be. Some of the chicken or pigeon wings that, dyed in masquerade colors, have done duty in hats, could be put to no better use than in these researches into insect life. Also, do a great deal of brushing about this time upon the clothes you wear. From the street one brings in on the clothes quantities of germinating dust, and a thorough shaking and beating out of a window of all articles of the day's wear should take place night or morning, morn-ing, whichever is' most convenient. Clothes not only look better and wear better for this process, but it removes considerable actively mischievous dust from the house itself. Philadelphia Ledger. |