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Role os Closet liner

Nature in its beneficent way provides a wide variety of woods, each with specific qualities designed to meet man,s needs for housing and countless other purposes, lumber dealers point out.

Among the most unusual of these woods, they say, is aromatic red cedar, especially valuable in constructing moth-repellent closets.

Cedar lined closets have long been popular with homemakers as an economical means of protecting woolens and furs against moths, which annually destroy clothing worth more than a quarter-billion dollars.

Aromatic red cedar contains the fragrant oil of cedarwood, pleasant and refreshing to human beings, but a deathdealing weapon to moths. The cedar aroma paralyzes the destructive moth larvae and prevents them from eating. Deprived of nourishment, the insects die before than can do any harm.

The clean fragrance of the cedar also repels numerous other insects, as well as vermin.

The precision milled aromatic red cedar available at lumber dealers today can be termed first cousin to the famed Cedars of Lebanon, mentioned frequently in the bible. The "goodly Cedars of Lebanon" were noted for their stately majesty and for the comforting shelter they provided from the burning sun.

In the United States cedars are perhaps the most abundant of evergreens, being found from ,coast to coast. Only aromatic red cedar, however, a species grown in the South and Southwest, contains sufficient amounts of natural cedarwood oil to make it efficient as a moth-repellent closet lining.

By a special process of kiln-drying, the wood is dried t<l an exact poir-rt which permits it to resist shrinkage and expansion rvhen installed and yet retain 100 per cent of its fragrant oil.

For easy installation and tight construction the closet lining is tongued and grooved at the sides and ends.

It is produced in )(-inch thickness and in several face widths ranging from 2 to 4 inches. The material is packaged in convenient bundles, usually B feet long. Each bundle is protected by heavy paper wrapping or a carton.

An 8-foot bundle contains 40 board feet of closet lining, which covers approximately 3O square feet of surface. A closet 3 feet deep, 5 feet wide and 7 feet high, for example, would require 5 bundles. That would be sufficient to cover not only the walls and ceiling, but also the floor and the inner side of the door, a procedure recommended for best results.

An added advantage of cedar lined closets, according to builders, is their easy maintenance. To be permanently effective as a moth killer the wood must remain in its natural state. There is never any expense, therefore, for painting, varnishing or other finishing treatment. The only upkeep required is occasional wiping with a dry or damp cloth.

Builders point out that cedar lined closets represent a wise investment for home owners since they a.dd more to the resali: value of a home than their actual cost.