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Show To Drive Oat File. I haven't a mosquito bar nor a screen door about my house, and yet there are seldom any flies and never any mosquitoes mosqui-toes about it. I learned the secret of successful warfare against these peets when living in the swamps of Louisiana, where, summer and winter, mosquitoes warm. For some years life was unendurable, unen-durable, and no meal could be eaten in peace. But all at once there was a change for the better. Bars and screens were often out of place, but there was almost an immunity from insects. I was batching at the time and had just changed my colored boy. The new comer explained to me how he kept the "critters" away. He burnt small pieces of gum camphor on the cook stove and used a secret preparation he called "sude-killo." "sude-killo." When I got married and came to Missouri I imparted the secret to my wife, and as there is no patent on it that I know of, I would advise all fellow sufferers suf-ferers to go and do likewise. The gum camphor alone is ample for the purpose, and need only be wed two or three times a day. Herbert A. Finley in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. |