Show JUST A GENERAL NUISANCE oat smudge or oat louse one of the most annoying small things in the universe the oat louse has no wings and yet tt flies through the air borne on the gentle breezes which waft over the fields it has no legs and yet it ad heres to the flesh of man with a devotion that Is inspiring some persons call it the oat smudge but most per sons call it by some harder name A fine way to accumulate the tribe Is to take a trolley trip near fields where the honest husbandman has been gamer lne his crops there the oat lice which are about the size 01 overgrown black fleas fill tho air quite numerously after such a ride they can be found adhering to the arms and face with a small sprinkling down the neck at heart they are innocent young things neither biting nor stinging and yet because of their peculiar rolling motion they are ticklish little devils so people shake them off the particular niche in nature filled by oat lice Is not quite clear so it Is quite reasonable to assume that they have been set apart to offset the fold joys of the suburbanite |