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Show HOUSE CENTIPEDE NEW PET Is Quiet, Docile and Friendly With th Children and Is Declared to Bs 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 ruhber plant, a war garden and a fly swatter. These are all very well as far as they go, says the New York Tribune, but the world has been moving swiftly, and the most progressive progres-sive and efficient households now have added the house cejitipetle-r-vulgnrly called the "thousand-legged worm" to their forces. We learn from a recent re-cent monograph on insects that: "An examination of the head of the centipede will reveal a pair of strong jaws that are used .against enemies and for the purpose of capturing small Insects 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, self-defense, it should pinch the baby's finger or toe, the swelling produced, If any, could quickly be alleviated by an application of ammonia." In the light of these recommendations recommenda-tions who can afford to be without one of these admirable beasts? It is noiseless, of excellent thaugh nocturnal noctur-nal habits a night watchman, as it were and its upkeep cost is practically practi-cally nothing. In the event that it rids the house completely of all tha pests enumerated particularly the "and others" the grateful householder household-er should be willing to pension it on small bits of meat or whatever its system craves. It should be taken Into In-to the family and given a pet name. |