Show HOUSE CENTIPEDE NEW PET Is quiet docite docile and friendly with tha the children and Is 1 declared to be death on bugs A family thinks it has mobilized its home protective forces to the full when it has set up a watchdog a cat a canary a rubber plant a war garden and a fly swatter these are all ve very ra well pell as far as they go says the ne new w york tribune but the world has been bee n moving swIftly and the most progressive and efficient households now have added the house centipede vulgarly y called the thousand ae legged worm to their forces we learn from a recent monograph on insects that an examination of the head of tho the centipede will reveal a pair of strong jaws that are used against enemies and for the purpose of capturing small insects tor for food it considers the fly a great delicacy and besides this it eats fleas mosquitoes moths roaches and other small household pests it hunts its food mostly at night the house centipede has seldom been known to bite a person and if in self defense it should pinch the babas finger or toe the swelling produced if any could quickly be alleviated by an application of ammonia in the light of these recommendations who can afford to be without one ope of these admirable beasts it Is q noiseless of excellent though nal habits a night watchman as it viere ere and its upkeep cost Is practically nothing in the event that it rids the house completely of all the pests enumerated particularly the and others the grateful householder should be willing to pension it on email small bits of meat or whatever its system craves it should be taken into the family and given a pet name 15 |