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the center of the wide one, sewed across each end and along one 

 edge, being held full so as to shorten it to the length of the 

 wide part of the longer strip. The space is now divided into 

 a series of pockets, varying in width from one to six inches, by 

 running seams through both thicknesses of the cloth. Now 

 sew a yard of tape to the pointed end of the outer piece of 

 drilling, bind or hem the raw edges of the goods, and you 

 have a most convenient catch-all for your soap, towel, comb, 

 hair-brush, tooth-brush, needles, thread, bachelor buttons, 

 and various other small articles that would get lost anywhere 

 else. 



MOSQUITO-DOPE, 



If going into the woods or mountains in summer, you will 

 require a lotion to keep off mosquitoes and flies. Many 

 preparations are sold for this purpose, all of which have 

 more or less merit; but the objection to most of them is that 

 they are not durable. They evaporate rapidly and have to 

 be applied every half-hour or so. I have tried nearly all of 

 them, but have never found anything that did the work so 

 thoroughly as the following mixture: To three ounces of pine- 

 tar add two ounces of castor-oil and one ounce of oil of 

 pennyroyal. This mixture has a good body, an odor like a 

 tan-yard, will last all day, and can be relied on to stand off 

 any herd of mosquitoes this side of New Jersey. Those 

 muzzles that are made of gauze and intended to be worn 

 over your head are a failure. Several times while wearing 

 one I wanted to spit, and forgot that I was muzzled until I 

 got myself in a most uncomfortable predicament. When 

 I wanted to eat or drink I had to take the measly thing off. 

 and then the mosquitoes crawled down my spine and made 

 me wish I were dead. Finally, while wading a Trout-stream, 

 an overhanging limb caught the gauzy gaud, flipped it over 

 into the next school-district, and I have never seen it since. 

 Then I greased myself with my tar-ointment and was happy. 



