Show Ii I JA VACATION CA 1 1 sp o SPOILERS i i IV Spiders IV-Spiders Spiders daggers Chiggers and Ticks I I Written for The Telegram By Br DR FRANK THONE THONE- Science Service Staff Writer Spiders chiggers and ticks are all al zoological cousins at least second cousins cowins They belong to that great group of legged eight creatures which scientists call the ar arachnids Commonly Com Corn lumped with insects they differ dif fer from them in having two legs too many and four wings too few and ina In Ina a number of other ways They will all be found pretty numerously Inmost in inmost inmost most vacation territories Spiders need cause no concern There Is only one really poisonous spider In the United States a mod mod- crate sized crate nervous creature called the Black Widow living principal 5 ly 1 In the south She can make a grown Il man pretty sick but Black Widow bites are so infrequent nt that they are not worth bothering about Other spiders no matter how looking able are unable to pierce a human skin with their fangs and may be Ignored Chiggers are the young oung stage or larvae lanae of a kind of mite They are areso areso areso so tiny that their method of attack has never been well studied until lately lat Now a French entomologist states tates that they dont don't bite their way in but dissolve a a. hole through the skin digesting ting the material thus dissolved dissolved dis dis- dis solved outside their bodies This explains explains ex ex- plains perhaps th the disturbance these little fiends can set up so 50 portion te to their minute size The way to treat a chigger r is rough Squeeze him out with a a. pair of tweezers or scrape him of off with a knife It makes little difference even If you dont get his mouthparts loose they'll come out pre presently of their own accord I Cl Chigger bites can be prevented Before Be Re fore going out dust yourself with flowers of ot sulphur Chiggers hate sulphur and will shun you jou ou like the plague Another way is to make up lin in your bathtub several gallons of strong hypo solutions such as photographers photographers pho pho- use and Md u wallow allow In it letting let ting it dry on the skin Tills This s covers you vou with an Invisible sulphur dusting dust dust- ing lug Persons who get skin burns from flowers of sulphur find the hyp hypo method harmless It Is also claimed that if It you take a bath in strong salt water in Immediately after being In chigger Infested territory it will prevent pre them from taking hold Ticks are arc larger and more bloodthirsty bloodthirsty blood blood- thirsty than chiggers and some of them are carriers of a dangerous disease disease dis dis- dis e ease e so It is well to keep clear of them If It you lou find one wandering on you put him on a rock and hit i him with another rock Ticks arc I so shelled hard that this s Is the only sure method of or killing them If a tick has taken hold anoint him with a little salted butter or orsome orsome some vas vaseline ine This usually makes him let loose though It doesn't aiwa always al ai- a- a wa ways s 's work After his has had time to feel teel the efe effects ts of or the grease attack take hold of him preferably with a pair of pointed flat r tweezers a and p d-p pull J Dont Don't n t bend hi him I backwards That That- might break him himoff himoff off oft and leave his mouthparts attached attached at It is highly Important that tha vou ou get the mouthparts out They will leave a nasty lumpy slow sore sometimes for tor months 1 if the they are left in the skin S. S |