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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1915 
The New 
Spring Modes 
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The first models indicate some very decided 
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The March Bazar has a delightful profusion 
of the latest effects. Paquin, Cheruit, Worth, 
Callot, Premet, Jeanne Hallee, Lady Duff 
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FOR THE BEGINNING HOUSEKEEPER AND THE BACHELOR GIRL 
The Small Family Cook Book 
By MARY D. P RET LOW 
This new cookery book for the beginning housekeeper and for everyone who has to cater to 
two or three persons will quickly find its way to the kitchen reference shelf of every small family. 
It solves the difficulties imposed by the average cook book of reducing the quantities prescribed, 
to the limits required and at the same time retaining the essential piquancy of the recipe. 
This book is fascinating in its suggestions and menus for afternoon teas, informal breakfasts, 
luncheons and congenial foregatherings of bachelor girls in which the author reveals many delight¬ 
ful “subtleties” and inventions of her own and of the private recipe books of Southeastern Virginia 
With decorations by Rhoda Chase and Charles Guischard. 12mo. 75 cents net. Postage 
8 cents. 
McBRIDE, NAST ® CO., Publishers, 31 Union Square North, New York 
House Centipede Useful, but 
Disagreeable 
T HE house centipede, although dis¬ 
agreeable in appearance, feeds on 
small cockroaches, the typhoid fly and 
other still more disagreeable insects, and, 
therefore, would not seem altogether an 
undesirable visitor in one’s house. How¬ 
ever, as one of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture’s entomologists says in a recent 
Farmers’ Bulletin dealing with this insect: 
“Its uncanny appearance is hardly calcu¬ 
lated to inspire confidence, and it will un¬ 
questionably bite in self-defense, although 
very few cases of its having bitten any 
human being are on record.” It does not 
feed on household goods and woolens, al¬ 
though many housewives hold this belief. 
The house centipede is a Southern spe¬ 
cies, its natural home being in the latitude 
of Texas, but it has' slowly spread north¬ 
ward, and, having reached New York and 
Massachusetts about thirty years ago, it 
is now very common in these States and 
extends westward well beyond the Missis¬ 
sippi. It is a very delicate creature and 
almost impossible to catch, having a worm¬ 
like body about an inch long of a grayish- 
yellow color. The name “centipede” is 
misleading, as it does not possess a hun¬ 
dred legs, but no more than thirty, al¬ 
though the speed at which it travels 
across the floor does not give the ordinary 
observer sufficient time to count them. Its 
head is armed with a pair of very long, 
slender “feelers.” The bulletin advises 
the housekeeper who feels that the centi¬ 
pede has become a pest in her house to use 
fresh pyrethrum powder near bathrooms, 
closets, cellars, conservatories and store¬ 
rooms where it may hide itself. The sug¬ 
gestion is also given that all moist places 
should be kept free from any objects, such 
as flower pots, mops, or dirty rags behind 
which the insect may conceal itself. 
It is very questionable whether the cen¬ 
tipede would ever, unprovoked, attack any 
human being or other large animal, still 
if it is pressed with the bare hand or foot, 
or is caught between sheets in beds it will 
probably bite, and a few cases on record 
show that severe swelling and pain may 
result, for the insect belongs to a poison¬ 
ous group of centipedes. The wound can 
hardly be called dangerous, however, and 
prompt dressing with ammonia is recom¬ 
mended to alleviate the disagreeable 
symptoms. The centipede is in one re¬ 
spect like a spider, in that it springs after 
its prey and is very rapacious. Trained 
observers have noticed that in capturing 
such a pest as a cockroach, the centipede 
springs over its prey, inclosing and caging 
it with its many legs, after which it de¬ 
vours its victim. In the act of devouring 
a moth it has been observed to keep its 
numerous long legs vibrating with incred¬ 
ible swiftness, giving the appearance of a 
hazy spot surrounding the fluttering moth. 
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