ings to be preserved from moths are kept and
they will never be harmed. Mice never get into drawers or trunks where
gum camphor is placed.

_Another Recipe_.--Mix half a pint of alcohol, the same quantity of
turpentine and two ounces of camphor. Keep in a stone bottle and shake
well before using. The clothes or furs are to be wrapped in linen, and
crumbled-up pieces of blotting-paper dipped in the liquid to be placed
in the box with them, so that it smells strong. This requires renewing
but once a year.

Another authority says that a positive, sure recipe is this: Mix equal
quantities of pulverized borax, camphor gum and saltpetre together,
making a powder. Sprinkle it dry under the edges of carpets, in
drawers, trunks, etc., etc. It will also keep out all kinds of
insects, if plentifully used. If the housekeeper will begin at the top
of her house with a powder bellows and a large quantity of this fresh
powder, and puff it thoroughly into every crack and crevice, whether
or not there are croton bugs in them, to the very bottom of her house,
special attention being paid to old furniture, closets, and wherever
croton water is introduced, she will be freed from these torments. The
operation may require a repetition, but the end is success.

MOTHS IN CARPETS.

If you fear that they are at work at the edge of the carpet, it will
sometimes suffice to lay a wet towel, and press a hot flat-iron over
it; but the best way is to take the carpet up, and clean it, and give
a good deal of attention to the floor. Look in the cracks, and if you
discover signs of moths, wash the floor with benzine, and scatter red
pepper on it before putting the carpet lining down.

Heavy carpets sometimes do not require taking up every year, unless in
constant use. Take out the tacks from these, fold the carpets back,
wash the floor in strong suds with a tablespoonful of borax dissolved
in it. Dash with insect powder, or lay with tobacco leaves along the
edge, and re-tack. Or use turpentine, the enemy of buffalo moths,
carpet worms and other insects that injure and destroy carpets. Mix
the turpentine with pure water in the proportion of three
tablespoonfuls to three quarts of water, and then after the carpet has
been well swept, go over each breadth carefully with a sponge dipped
in the solution and wrung nearly dry. Change the water as often as it
becomes dirty. The carpet will be nicely cleaned as well as
disinfected. All moths can be kept aw