THE WAY OF THE 

 MOSQUITO. 



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WHEN a man hears for the 

 first time that it is the female 

 mosquito that does all the biting, 

 it makes him feel right glad. 



For if there is any one thing- his 



. 

 sex has felt hound to prove, it is 



that the women are the cause of all the trouble in the 

 world. It is a joke nowadays, but it used to be a 

 very serious business serious enough to make it 

 matter of religious belief. Old Dame Nature must 

 have had many a good laugh behind her hand at 

 the earnestness with which man has set about his task, 

 knowing that the males of any kind of creature are per- 

 fectly useless, so far as doing anything is concerned. If 

 they are coddled and carried about, as in the case of 

 certain flies, it is because they are needed to keep the race 

 going. As human babies got to be more and more of a 

 bother, so that our foremothers could not take care of 

 them and provide for the family too, our forefathers 

 were distracted from what had been their previous occu- 

 pations, looking pretty and fighting both of tremendous 

 importance and the cause of our being what we are 

 and were set to minding the young ones and providing 

 food. 



We can picture our distinguished ancestors squatting 

 in the sun and blinking while they decided that woman 

 had too much to say, and was inclined to multiply words 

 when she wanted her man to do something to make 



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