Show f ago g ro I 1 M 13 3 11 1 HE fly referred to in this article is the one most commonly found in our houses the domes tica of 0 linnaeus speaking broadly man has hide the housefly it has developed alons along with the human dwelling if we had no closed in dwell ing places it iq 1 doubtful it the hoie hote fly as at present constituted could eon ronnae nue to exist it thrives simply because we afford it food protection and breeding alces ale ces the house housefly fly at first fir st Is only a little worm wriggling his tiny grub like form in amine incubating pile of filth u usually bally the ma cure pile the ii L ot 01 the mound of rub blab or 01 garbage in the back yard in this condition he Is easily killed and it should be the duty of every person to kill him now the housefly house fly could not exit if everything were kept perfectly clean and ani sanitary ex terminate the fly worms do away with its breeding places and there will be no flies the common bouse housefly fly Is coming to be known as the typhoid fly ai a d when the term becomes universal sl greater care will be exercised in protecting the house from his presence files flies swallow the germs of typhoid in countless millions while feeding on the ex creta of typhoid 13 As a result they spread a thousand times more typhoid germs in their excreta than on their feet flies kill a greater number of human be V k f I 1 ta 0 f F 79 30 yh nab it es than all the beasts of prey an I 1 poisonous serpents ts tor for they spread disease which slays thousands As soon con as the fly comes out of his shell he s ful full glown and starts out in the world to make ft a living and if your home is 1 not clean he kno vs it t foi 01 the fl fly can discern an unclean an odor tor for miles As much as they like odors of filth they dis ike clean smells and where the former will attract the latter will repulse them A pleasant smelling substance the fragrance of flowers geraniums mignonette lavender or any perfumery will drive them away most of our diseases are caused by invisible germs that lodge and grow in cur bodies destroy ing ng our tissues or polso poisoning ning us with their ex e creta these germs may be brought to us from some sick per on by whatever what eier Is large enough to carry carr them and has the opportunity this tact fact with what every ono knows about files flies aid ai d we see at once the tremendous importance of files flies as carriers of human disease germs look closely at the picture of the fly resting on the glass and viewed from below look at the feet and observe that each of them is equipped with mith two claws and two light colored pads the vy clings to rough surfaces by means of the claws and find to smooth surfaces by A combined action of the claws and pads rhe flys fly e pads are covered with thousands of minute short hort hairs sticky at the end thele Is no suction merely adhesion all his grown up life the fly has to manage with sticky feet imagine our plight if the soles of our feet were sticking plaster perennially renewing its stickiness to such inconvenience the fly la Is constantly t and it Is this that ha bred into him the habit of frequently preening himself particularly bis his feet these are constan constantly becoming c bogged with adhering substances and this contamination the fly must assiduously remove if his feet are to act properly in supporting him on slippery places it if this contamination Is too sticky to rub ot olf the fly laps it off oft and it then parses pases off in his ex creta the fly lays her eggs in the manure pile or other objectionable filth all the germs all the imaginable microbes fasten themselves on the spongy teet feet he brings them into the house and wipes them off the fly you see walking over the food you are abbit to eat is with filth PHOTOS ay NATIONAL GIE TY 0 IR I 1 Y 0 A afa f W H 11 ZIP on V V IN N U A I 1 A cl if v 1 r 14 jet A J k aes and germs it if there ts is any dirt in your house or about your premises or those of your neigh bors hors he has just come from it watch him as he stands on the sugar industriously wiping his feet he Is getting rid of 01 disease germs rub bing them on the sugar that you are going to eat leaving the poon for you to swallow this does more to typhoid fever and cholera antum and other intestinal diseases than any other cause disease attacks human beings only when they are brought in contact with it for in stance you cannot get typhoid fever unless you swallow the germs of 0 typhoid and you do not swallow these germs unless uness they get on the food you eat or in the liau ds you drink or on the glasses or cups from which you drink intestinal diseases are more frequent when ever and wherever flies are most abundant and they and not the dumn er heat are the active agents of its spread there Is special danger when flies drop into such fluid as milk this forma forms an ideal cul ture material for the bacillus A few germs washed from the body of one fly may develop into millions within a few hours and the per SOD son who drinks such milk will receive large doses of bacilli which may later cause serious sickness here ire some valuable fly dont s tor for the housewife don t allow flies in oar house don dont t allow your fruits and confections to be exposed to the swarms of f fies les don t let flies ci awl over the baby s mouth and sv arm upon the nipple of its r bottle strike at the root of the ell eil e il dispose e of waste materials in such a way thit the housefly house fly cannot propagate for flies breed in horse manure de baying vegetables ege tables dead animals and all kind of filth so u look after the garbage cans see that they are c sprinkled with lime or kerosene oil anil and do clo ely el covered screen all windows and doors and nd insist that your grocer butcher baker and every one from whom you buy foodstuffs does the ame and re member that a large percentage of flies breed in the stable there Is more health in a well screened house than in many a doctor doctors s visit after aou ou have hae cleaned up your own premises inspect the neighborhood for fly breeding places call the attention of the owner to them and it if he does not remove them complain to the board of health keep flies away from the kitchen keep flies ott of the dining room and away from the sick especially from those ill with contagious dis eases to clear rooms of flies carbolic acid may be used as follows heat a shovel or any similar article and drop thereon 20 drops of car carbolic bolle add acid the lipor kills the fl es A cheap and perfectly reliable fly poison one which is not dangerous to human life Is of potash in solution dissolve one dram which can be bought at any drug store in two ounces of water and add a little sugar put some of this solution in shallow dishes and dis tribute them about the house sticky fly japer traps and liquid poisons are among the things to use in killing flies illes but tie tae latest cheapest and best is a solution of forma lin or formaldehyde in water A spoonful of this liquid put into a quarter of a pint of water and exposed in the room will be enough to kill all the flies to quickly clear the room where there are many flies burn pyrethrum ponder poder in the room this stupefies the flies when they may be up and burned if there are flies in the dining room of your hotel restaurant or boarding house co milain to the proprietor that the prem prein aises are not clean the hookworm Is undermining the vl bality ot of a section but the house fly threat ens the health ot of the world pest and plague and fever follow in ita its clitty footsteps its victims are legion the mosquito carries the germ ot of yel low fever the sting of the tsetse fly in facts with the numbing virus of the slow but certain sleeping sickness but the house fly carries on its sticky feet reet the potent poison of a dozen deaths the snake warns by hiss or rattle and in defense strikes to kill and then is to be shot or clubbed or ground beneath the boot heel but the malicious annoying fly satellite of sickness maker of aeme teries deposits its slow poison and buzzes away aa ay cpr e r busy never still always on its errand of distributing the venom of em disease it wasa t so long ago that the house fly was neither known nor understood screens were considered a luxury not a necessity a matter of comfort not a con tribu trib ution ion to health but that is not the case now the fly has been studied its habits noted ita its germ laden body inspected through the microscope and photographed bacteriologists scientists physicians know the house ali as s it really Is they realize that incontrovertible tro proof has demonstrated that flies kill a greater number ot of human beings evera year ear than all the beasts of prey and all the poisonous crawl ing things that live and it Is the consensus ol 01 opinion that a cam laign of education Is essential to bring the general public to an appreciation ot of the truth these acts facts are known to every scientist what Is being done now Is to carry these facts home to every householder every person who eats in res tarrants tau rants and lunchrooms and to every mother who watches hr baby with an eye to warding off every possible danger there Is a great campaign being waged against the fly typhoid fly as it Is called and washington la Is the center ot of the campaign the ti ar is being stirred up and urged by rich ard B watrous secretary ot 0 the american civic association which has covered the country with posers circulars booklets and even has taken up the moving picture film as a weapon against the pest and a method ot of popular instruction the as pamphlets are simple and to the point when one leads the tour four pages ot of fly literature a deep disgust for the buzzing things Is born and another soldier in the anti fly army has been drafted the accompanying photographs magnified many thousand times and more just as interesting were made by dr N A cobbs with a specially invented camera for the national geographic society dr cobbs is mal in ing a special study of the nation nations a pest as are other leading bacteriologists and acl entity who have come to realize the importance of the work one of the odd things in connection with the campaign of 0 education that Is being conducted in 1 nany n any cities is the act fact that the unpleasantness ot of the flies habits I 1 as caused many a person to cease the de of the tle fly life and enter a sort ol 01 silent war however some cities and associations have issued enormous posters portraying the daily life of a fly it is pretty bad several women have objected to seeing the posters although it has been proven to them that the pictures are not over drawn moving picture films showing the life and habits of the fly have been shown shon in some of the large cities thee theve films were ere taken across the united states an shown in hundreds of cheap theaters and have been considered of great value in disseminating knowledge of just what the fly Is and how much death and disease he can introduce into a house in one of the cities protests were received from some rather delicately sense 1 callea la lie and the mayor ordered the films off the boards the chairman of that state board of health asked the reason and was told that protests were made he ile then asked tor for the names of some ol 01 the protesting women he called on several and learned that their feel ings had been outraged by witnessing the vie dally daily life of a nasty fly and they believed that the sight vas v as too nauseating for the public thereupon the state officer took the ladies out into their own back yards and kitchens and in more than one instance showed them where the fly was doing the same thing in real life that the moving filma told of and by that sort of work introduced sume real war to mr fly in every city bulletins are being issued showing how flies may be killed by the wholesale |