ANTIDOTE
A Malvern reader offers a suggestion on the treatment of ants and remarks, 'My daughter was hedge-clipping a short time ago—standing on a kitchen chair in order to reach-the higher parts of the hedge—and one leg of her chair penetrated an ants' nest which was instantly roused into great activity, the ants swarming up the leg of the chair and up her legs too, and rushing around over so wide a space that she had to give up working there and move farther along. She wanted to complete the job, so, acting on the advice of a friend, she poured
hstiff dose of woodwbrm destroyer into the ole and sprinkled some over the ground round about. The effect was extraordinary. At once all the ants disappeared and did not cone out again and, although she looked at the place the next day and for several days after, no trace of an ant was to be seen again. of course these may be a different breed of ants from those which invaded your correspondent house, but it seems to me worth while trying, Possibly if the cracks between the floor-boards or wherever they come from were liberally anointed with the stuff and some perha0 poured down any likely opening it might bto e a discouraging effect on their activities.'
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