Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — Salt For Moths. [ARTICLE]

Salt For Moths.

For moths salt is the best exterminator. The nuns in one of the hospital convents have tried everything else without success, and their experience is valuable, as they have so much clothing of the sick who go there; and strangers, when dying there, often leave quantities of clothing, etc. They had a room, full of feathers, which were sent there for pillow making, and they were in despair, as they could not exterminate the moths until they were advised to try common salt. They sprinkled it around, and in a week or ten days they were altogether rid of the mo-hs. They are never troubled now. In heavy velvet carpets sweeping them with salt cleans and keeps them from moths, as particles of salt remain in the carpets and corners. Salt is not hurtfuttoanyone.Tind'hAS' no bad smell. Here is a little hint I add, which, perhaps, everyone does not know: For cleaning wash basins, b ith, etc., use the s me thing, common dry salt Rub a little of the salt with your fingers on the basin. Often a sort ofscutn is noticed in the basins in a marble washstand in the bath room: the salt takes it off easily and leaves the basin shinning and clean.—Philadelphia Press.