PIGHT THE FLIES 



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t)y some invisible rigid connection. The 

 boat left Algiers at noon, and as long as 

 there was any light left by which to ob- 

 serve, the insect kept its place steadily. 

 This was in midsummer. The insect 

 jiever made any attempt to come aboard. 

 The boat was not particularly fast, her 



speed being, so far as I could judge, 

 about thirteen knots. When we consider 

 that the insect was all the time support- 

 ing itself in the air while the boat merely 

 floated on the water, and thus had its 

 weight supported, the comparison be- 

 tween the two is all the more striking. 



FIGHT THE FLIES 



tlVe reprint hcrczvitli a circular recently published by the American Civic Associa- 

 tion, li'hich is conducting a vigorous campaign against the /?v 



IT is at this time of the year that the 

 house-fly begins to take on life for 

 the ensuing spring and summer ; eggs 

 Jaid last fall will soon begin to hatch. At 

 first he is only a little worm, wriggling 

 jiis tiny grub-like form in some incubat- 

 ing pile of filth. He is usually found in 

 ihe manure pile, the outhouse, or the 

 mound of rubbish or garbage in the back 

 ySLvd. In this condition he is easily killed, 

 .and it should be the duty of every person 

 to kill him now. The house-fly could not 

 .exist if everything were kept perfectly 

 •clean and sanitary. Exterminate the fly- 

 worms, do away with its breeding places, 

 .and there will be no flies. If we are to 

 fight the flies this summer we should use 

 •every agency possible, and the best way 

 to fight them is to prevent their breeding. 



The common house-fly is coming to be 

 known as the "typhoid fly," and when the 

 term becomes universal greater care will 

 be exercised in protecting the house from 

 his presence. 



Flies kill a greater number of human 

 beings than all the beasts of prey, with all 

 of the poisonous serpents added. They 

 spread disease which slays thousands, 

 while big, powerful beasts kill single 

 -victims. 



As soon as the fly comes out of his 

 ■shell he is full grown and starts out in 

 the world to make a living, and if your 

 home is not clean he knows it by the 

 ■odor. They can discern an odor of filth 

 ior miles. 



As much as they like filth odors they 

 dislike other odors. Where a bad odor 

 will attract them the clean odor will re- 

 pulse them. A pleasant-smelling sub- 

 stance — the fragrance of flowers, gera- 

 niums, mignonette, lavender, or any per- 

 fumery — will drive them away. 



He is a frequenter of oftal. The fly 

 lays her eggs in the manure pile or other 

 objectionable filth. All the germs — all 

 the imaginable abominable microbes — 

 fasten themselves on the spongy feet of 

 the fly. He brings them into the house 

 and wipes them off his feet. The fly you 

 see walking over the food you are about 

 to eat is covered with filth and germs. 

 If there is any dirt in your house or 

 about your premises, or those of your 

 neighbors, he has just come from it. It 

 is his home. Watch him as he stands on 

 the lump of sugar industriously wiping 

 his feet. He is wiping oft* the disease 

 germs, rubbing them on the sugar that 

 you are going to eat, leaving the poison 

 for you to swallow. 



He wipes his feet on the food that you 

 eat, on the faces and on the lips of your 

 sleeping children. This does more to 

 spread typhoid fever and cholera in- 

 fantum and other intestinal diseases than 

 any other cause. 



■ Disease attacks human beings only 

 when they are brought in contact with it. 

 For instance, you cannot get typhoid 

 fever imless vou swallow the germs of 

 typhoid, and you do not swallow these 



