Show ROOSEVELT OOST VICTIM oi Of HOMESICKNESS W WASHINGTON July 19 Colonel Colonel Roosevelt to judge from a letter received from him by a friend in this city is having havIng having hav hav- ing quite as successful and Interesting a trip as he anticipated This letter was dated Nairobi In Africa and among Its striking passages passagE's was one referring to Kermit hermit Roosevelt's hunting Kermit It seems shows more enthusiasm than caution in the pursuit of big African African Af- Af rican lican game Some of ot his encounters have been of a nature to excite remark from his father and It is inferred that they must hav have been little short of reckless to have been considered out of the or ordinary ordinary ordinary or- or by so competent an authority as the former president Though enjoying his sta stay in Africa Colonel Roosevelt apparently has a touch of nostalgia now and then His corren correspondent correspondent corre corre- n was enjoined to write and give the news FLEAS DONT DON'T CARE MUCH WHO IS HOST WASHINGTON July 19 How How fleas as guests get mixed with their affiliations affiliations with ith resulting complexities in inthe inthe inthe the spread of infection in this country country coun coun- try is pointed out in a report received by the public health service from former Assistant Surgeon Geor George a W. W McCoy and Maurice B. B ofSan ofSan of ofSan San Francisco As examples of the accidental dis distribution dis of these insects to adventitious adventitious ad hosts the report says that rat fleas have been found on squirrels and squirrel squirrel rel fleas on rats As both rats and squirrels showing plague infection have been found in in California the plague may be carried from one of these rodents rodents ro roo dents to the other by means of fleas All these fleas readily feed on human buman blood The report says there is good reason rea rea- reason son for suspecting that plague among amon the ground round squirrels in California originated origl from plague among rats through the migration of fleas Experiments made in various ways indicate that fleas from rodents will adapt themselves to toi These investigations investigations in in- i host st of different species also demonstrate that fleas from squirrels will attack rats even evenin evenin evenin in the presence of their usual hosts |