Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
THE HOUSE FLY
For years the house fly was regard
ed simply as a petty thief, helping
itself freely to our table delicacies.
But we have learned that what the
fly leaves in our dishes is of infinite
ly more consequence than the little
it takes away!
Feeding where there are cases of
typhoid and other enteric diseases, it
brings into our homes on its hairy
feet and in its amazingly constructed
stomach, the germs of these deadly
disorders. Wherever it walks, it
leaves a trail of them, depositing
them everywhere in the numerous
“f y-specks.”
Beyond a doubt this active little
household Mercury, winging its way
from the sick room to the dining table,
is responsible for the spread of many
malignant diseases.
At first thought the fly appears to
be very fastidious in its personal
cleanliness. In amazement we have
watched its systematized washings,
rubbings and brushings! How can
this apparently neat little insect leave
such a trail of virulent poisons across
our food?
Let a house fly walk over a plate
of cold meat which has been boiled
and jellied. In a few days, springing
from each tiny footprint, a growth of
bacteria may be plainly seen. Try
it—it will make you shudder—and
think!
The table may be spotless, the sil
ver handsomely chased, the china of
the latest design—the guests may be
witty, wise and beautiful, but the
house fly, with its germ-infested feet,
makes it a banquet of death.
By the medical world the house fly
has been condemned as being the
most active and harmful of all man’s
foes, carrying death to more human
beings than have all the beasts of
prey and poisonous reptiles put to
gether.
What a fearful charge! But wait!
A member of the United States Pub
lic Health Service is authority for
the statement that the “story of the
danger of disease from the house fly
has been only half told.” Think of
it—only half told!
What must we do?
As soon as settled warm weather
comes, flies begin to breed. Garbage,
damp, moldy cloth and paper, decay
ing vegetables, in fact, any ferment
ing animal or vegetable matter serves
as a breeding place.
If there are flies about, find their
breeding place, and remove it.
Drive all flies out of a sick-room,
especially where there are cases of
contagious diseases. Let not one es
cape.
Cart way, bury or burn all decay
ing matter about your homes.
Screen all foods, whether in the
house or on sale at the stores.
Cover tightly all garbage; scald
cans often.
Watch your sewage system closely.
It must not leak. It should not be
exposed to these active little pest car
riers; screen every door and window.
And after you have taken every pre
caution—still you will have flies!
The problem is a vexatious one. It
is much more than this, it is fraught
with real danger. What are you go
ing to do about it?
A common sense fly paper, open to
no criticism on the score of danger
from poison, a harmless, always ready
weapon in your war of extermination,
is one of your most valuable allies.
Defying fly traps, swifter than the
nimblest pursuer armed with a “swat
ter,” your household foe, so minute
yet so mighty, cannot resist the lure
of its appetite. Harmlessly buzzing,
it swoops down hungrily upon the ap
petizing meal spread in its very sight
—and it never gets up from the table!
While you are complaining about
them, flies are multiplying. Statis
tics showing what mischief they are
already responsible for will not serve
to rid you of them. *
Be enthusiastic in your active com
paign against these enemies of the
family’s health and happiness!
When there has been a real awaken
ing to the perils of the germ-distrib
uting dynamo called the house fly, it
is doomed.—People’s Home Journal.
DREAMS
By Rosamond L. McNaught.
A humble woman stands at her tubs
The whole of a summer day;
With splashes and shakes, and wrings
and rubs,
She washes and washes away.
And think you the duty an ugly
thing?
A stupid grind it seems;
And the worker does not smile or
sing;
But—over the tubs she dreams and
dreams.
Above her sewing a woman bends,
And cuts and bastes and fits;
And over mistakes that she sometimes
mends
Perplexed brow she knits.
Then at her machine, past the set of
sun,
She stitches the lone, long seams;
And though her task is a homely one,
’Tis illumed with the flame of a
woman’s dreams.
With a “Rock-a-by-by” a woman
swings
Her babe in a rocking-chair;
And she lays her hand, the while she
sings,
On the darling’s silken hair.
Both maid and nurse, she is tired to
death,
But her face with glory beams!
For, quickened by balm of the babe’s
soft breath,
She strings in the dusk a chaplet
of dreams.
DISOBEDIENCE
By Frances McKinnon Morton
I am convinved as I grow older and
see more of children and am better
able to project myself into their world
that it is very rare to meet with ac
tual intentional disobedience in young
children. Very young children fail
of a full understanding of the re
quests made of them, and many poor
little tender hands have been smacked
when their owner was ignorant not
only of his offense but more than
that, still in ignorance of the meaning
of the original request. The feeling
that a parent has been cruel or un
just rouses anger, ill-will, and fear,
in a child, and finally out of this
mental disease there grows the de
sire to deceive—to withdraw the in
ner self from the misunderstanding
parent. It is safe, in our dealings
with very small children, to go on the
general principle that none of them
really wish to displease or to be dis
obedient. One very frequent cause
of disobedience in little children is
the bad habit so many of us have of
giving commands in the negative
rather than the positive form. A
little child does not understand the
meaning of the word “don’t,” and as
it represents no concrete object it is
not a word easily defined to a child’s
limited intelligence. One baby that
I knew, when asked if she understood
“don’t” replied naively, “Yeth, it’th
the smack word.”
SOME DON’TS.
Don’t lose faith in men because
me man whom you have placed upon
pedestal has disappointed you. Your
| mistake was in putting any man on a
| ledestal. It is like putting children
I >n dress parade before your company.
| They go to “acting up” just at the
wrong time. When you put your
friend on a pedestal you expect too
much of him. You expect him to be
superhuman and hold him to account
when he does just about as other men
vould do under similar circumstances.
It will be better if, instead of elevat
ing any one man above the human ken
you raise men generally to that com
non level where you can accept them
generally as pretty good folks after
: ill with their inconsistencies and their
I weakness. None of us has wings and
few of us have horns.
Politics is a game and whatever the
•eligious professions of men may be,
if they have a political machine, they
play the game according to the old
time rules. None of them play it ac
cording to the scriptures.—The Oma
ha Nebraskan.
Miss Oleatha Alexander, the only
Colored pupil in the graduating class
of Franklin school, was awarded a
certificate for her excellence in pen
manship.
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