TO KEEP MOTHS AWAY.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 7, 28 January 1902, Page 7

TO KEEP MOTHS AWAY.

r If one is not the happy possessor of s cedar closet or oheat, or a camphor trunk, for storing furs and woollens, she need not despair of proteoting them against the ravages of moths. Many people objeot to oamphor-bar balls, and also to tar bags. They certainly do have a most disagreeable odour wbioh olings to one'a furs almost the entire winter. Red pepper and tobacco are sometimes used, but with doubtful advantage. A woman, 75 years old, and with much experienoe in suoh matters, said she had never used anything to prbteot her furs except newspaper and a glue-pot. Her method, briefly Btated, was first to beat the furs well, getting out all the dust and any moths or eggs, and olean woollens .oarefully from any spots, tor dirt -will attraot moths . Having done this she plaoed them in boxes, and sealed them up in newspaper, leaving not a nut or a hole anywhere. If one has no boxes she may take two thicknesses of newspaper, and, for heavy articles, Buoh as fnr rugs, wrapping paper. Seal them up also and put away on a shelf until the time cornea back for their use. A great deal of worry and time will be saved if eaoh paokage is labelled—' Father's coat.' 'Johnny's cap/ &o. Fux on gowns can, in moßt oases, be ripped off, thus saving I the garment from being wriakled by close packing all summer. NIGHT. In many oases of illness there is an actu&l exacerbation in the symptoms with the approach of night. This is notably so in children. Thl3 may have a donble origin. It may be due to the increased timidity of the individual at that time, and a (Jbnsecuent increase in the subjective sensations of the disease, and it may be due, at least in part, to ths natural letting down of the power of resistance of the organism that we believe does occur during the night. Whatever may bo tho explanation, the fact isindiapntable ; and there is not a mother who does not dread the approach of night when her child is seized with a dangerous illness. A still more interesting fact is the influnnce of the night season over moral attributes. There is a sad ' letting down* ia this direction whioh is similar to that Been in the field of the emotions. The power of resistance to things evil i» then diminished. The very mystery of night is conducive to an nnduo expanding of the imagination. There is a sharpening of all tho senses that renders every sound clearer and makes every objeot stand out in greatly heigsened distinotn-oos. Tho sense of hearing is more acute, the eyesight deteots objects more readily, the touch is quiokened-, and tho whole being is more sensitive. Whether thin is evidence of weakness, the hypersestheaia of nervous exhaustion, or a quiokeniug of every tissue in its instinctive strife for self-preaervation, may be beyond us ; of the faot we all have proof in the pEsaiptings of our own hearts. : The saost dangerous hours of the twentyfour, to the melancholic, are the latter hoars «£ the night. The depression is then greatest, obstaoles then seem most insurmono&kble, and the power of resistance to snioidal impulse is then least effective. This all goes to demonstrate that the energy of the patient is at its lowest ebb during the night ; that there is then a natural depression atsA timidity. Wlr9t is experienced by the sane, influences also the insane ; and obstaoles and misfortunes at night* time mount highest in their ▼isiotf. There is doubtless scarcely a melanoholio who does not at one time or another have * suggestions' of aelf-destruc-tion ; and whether or not they will control him depends entirely upon the strength of the idea. The p&rUoalar hoar of the night fa often sufficient to throw the balance against the poof unfortunate, and in this deuje it beootnea an annual exoiting cause oi jraieide. It is a simple faot that has its basis in a physiological variation of the organism at tnis hour. Just aa oertainly as there ia a physiological condition of exaltation and sense of well* being, so also ia there a physiological state of depression and irritation with one's environment. It is sot necessary to assume that this implies disease. It does not: It is simply an inevitable reaction, such aa is seen in all physiological phenomena. There ia a coming and a going, a rise and fall, a season of joy and a sense of pain : the greatest factor that enforces- this law of Nature is the daily cycle of the earth on. its axis, with its necessary presentation to and withdrawal from that souroe of all life and energy— the solar centre of organic life. laite presence we imbibe warmth, energy, confidence, life ; in its absence we suffer the reaction of cold* | ness, lowered ambition, lack of confidence, I and moral cowardice— a curious physiological I fact indeed, «nd one not without its yery j BraotioAl sppliofltion.