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Show BEWARE OF THE DANGEROUS HOUSE FLY. The anti-fly crusade is waging a relentless war on the disease-germ disease-germ carrying. pest. The committee is sending out thousands of circulars' cir-culars' which, in part, read a$ follows: - . ' ''Those that are waging war on the flies a most useful and important im-portant war speak of the fly as the fly hat ".will not wipe his feet." It is a good rough phrase to attract attention, but unfortunately unfortu-nately the fly docs wipe his feet, lie wipes his feet on the food that you cat. on the faces and on l he lifts of youf; sleeping children, 'lie is a frequenter of offal; the feniakjfly lays h'er, eggs in the manure. ma-nure. piles.3' The flics in millions' scTtlc otf 'thVrefuse, the sewage that washes all along the beach along the. water's edge in great cities. "All the germs, all imaginable ftorriblc microbes, fasten themselves them-selves to the spongy feet of the fly, and the fly brings the germs into the house and there wipes them off his feet. And that does more to Spread typhoid than any other cause. Tlow often have you seen the fly standing on a lump of sugar in the sugarbowl, industriously wiping off the disease germs, rubbing them on the sugar that you are going to cat. "War to the death should be declared upon the little pest. His presence is a disgrace. His touch muy be deadly. Either man must kill the fly or the fly will kill the man. If there is no dirt and filth there will be no fhes. t "Keep the flies away from, the milk. "Don't allow flies in your house. ' "Don't permit them near your food, especially milk. . "Don't buy foodstuff where- flies arc tolerated. "Don't allow your fruits and confections to be exposed to the swarms of flies. "Don't let flics crawl over the baby's mouth and swarm upon the nipple of its nursing bottle. "Clean up your premises inside and out. and then see that others do the same. Strike at the root of the evil. The house ly breeds in horse manure, kitchen offal and the like. Dispose of these materials materi-als in suclj a way that the house fly cannot propagate Screen all windows and doors and insist that your grocer, butcher, baker and everyone from whom you buy food stuffs does tho same. There is more health in a well screened house than in many a doctor's visit." |