MOTH KILLERS.
It you dislike the naptha smell, try instead the new moth preventative from the Gold Coast—khus-khus grass, it is called. It has a pungent, rather pleasing) odour which moths can't abide. Put a few stalks into pockets of coats and frocks lying by, or fill flat organdie sachets with it. You 11 find it very effective. Arum lily-like sheaths of white berries arc*, pretty, too. For the berries wrap five naptha balls in wide organdie. The sheath is an oblong) of green organdie with one side rounded off. Place the berries in position and finish with a loop of green ribbon. In summer the chic girl guards very carefully against ravages by clothes moths. Naptha balls are most. U£e ful—and very ornamental, too, if dresesd up prettily, A bunch of grapes looks charming suspended from a hanger. Bach grape is a naptha ball twisted • inside a two-inch and a half square of purple organdie.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 3074, 2 November 1929, Page 7
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156MOTH KILLERS. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 3074, 2 November 1929, Page 7
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