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Show TH HOUSE FLY SHOWN UP. Onntamlnates :rfrrlhlnc It Tnnrhss With lla tret. A proper hniisewire bates a fly aa the devil bntea holy water. The comparison compar-ison la really unjllat to the hnuxcwlf. Inalln. lively alio knnna more about the omnium fly Ibnn Mr. William l y-nmn y-nmn t'mlerwnod. lecturer in the Mnaaa-eliusetta Mnaaa-eliusetta Insip. He of Technology, who has written a pamphlet on the Inaoct which la a horrible warning. Any good woman who haa cooked, and baked and act tli tuhlc nfll find the house tty guilty on any count In Mr. Tniler-wood's Tniler-wood's Indlctinrnt without the evidence, evi-dence, which, however, wo ahnll aet forth for the Information nf the sterner sex. which la aulllelently Impressed Willi the Inlipilty of the luoaqillto, but mnkoa light nt rllca. Too long haa the burden of every waatlng and deadly dead-ly fever been laid on the narrow about-dera about-dera of the moaijulln, and the female variety at thnt. It la time the fly, rnther weakly called the bnuae fly, for he Is aa much nt home outdoors aa In the bnuae, got hla dcaerta. "The bouse fly (Musca domestical," aaya Mr. Underwood, "Is particularly filthy. Our domestic animals, the dog and cat, though far from clean In nil their habits, we like to have about us. but wa keep them In their proper places. The house fly. on the other hand, la generally tolerated everywhere. every-where. It orawla over hands and faces. Its gets Into milk, It walks over sugar and salt, over bread and cake, often soiling and contaminating everything thnt It touches with Its filthy feet." An Unhidden gueat that la treated Ilk the prodigal son, to the fatted calf or to anything elae the table groans under. The house fly haa only alx feet and one tongue, bnt Mr. Underwood Under-wood baa proved that on feet and tongue It may harbor thousands of ml-crobea. ml-crobea. A photograph of the footprints foot-prints of a fly on a loaf nf jelly Illustrates Illus-trates his text "Ha hunger aatlatled." says the author. "It flew away, leaving leav-ing no visible sign to show thnt It had ever been there; the Jolly looked aa clean and puro aa ever. Countless numbers of germs, too small to he seen aavo by the aid of a nib roacope. bad, however, been planted there by the fly's foot and tongue. Twelve hours later, when th.a photograph wna taken, the dlali of jelly having ueen kept In the meantime In a warm place, the groupa of bacteria could eaally be acen with the naked eye, Juat as the camera has here reproduced them. During this time the germs had multiplied many thousand timea. Kneh ninaa now represented rep-resented a living colony, or, aa It were, a city of germs, the amalleat spot which can be seen on the plnta containing con-taining many mllllnna of them. The tracks of the fly aa he walked along can be plainly mnde out, and midway between the fly's tracks In aevernl plncea will be aeon a number of small, rounded spots or colonics. Theae came from the genua carried nnd plnntcd by the fly'a tongue, and they ahow the different places where the Insect pnuscd to feed as It walked along. The populntloii of one of theae colonies colo-nies wna counted, and forty-six million mill-ion (-Hl.(XUKJl gernia were found to be preaent In a alngle spot. They had, of course, multiplied muiiy times after Ihey were planted on the Jelly by the Uy'a tongue." It la liurdly neccaanry for Mr. Underwood Un-derwood to ndd that "It la moat Import Im-port ion thnt tlira alioul.l be kept away from all food auppllea." A pcruanl of hla pamphlet will make the Inaect so odious thnt no one will u mil to eat without some form of fly lusiirniice. It la a comfort, however, to be told by the author thnt 'lt must not be Inferred In-ferred thnt tllea always curry the germs of dysentery and tropical fever upon their feet" If they did, bow long could the human race bold Ita own ngaluat tllea that propagate 4)1.-OOO.tXK) 4)1.-OOO.tXK) microbes apiece? Why. Dr. L. ). Howard, the (iovernment entomologist, en-tomologist, once experimented with I.0K7 flies to see bow inlernlilc they wi re. There la solace In such tlgiuea. Sun. |