New Ulm weekly review., 1880-11-10
WHOLE NUMBER 148
Something About Flies.

An allopathic physician claims to
nave discovered the true inwardness Of
mosquitoes. The secretion which they
so delicately insert-the subcutaneous
injection so to speaks said to be
identical with tho favorite drug, quiz
nine, which is supposed to possess won
derful curative powers in case of mala-
ria chills and fever, and the like.
Mosquitoes then, bred in swamps and
boggy places, where stagnant water,
etc, create malaria and poison the
blood of persons who are so unfortu-
nateHas to dwell in such localities, or 90
. fishing mosquitoes possess, and
generously impart, the natural anti
dote-compulsory vaccination, as it
were. And 50 we learn more and
more to not despise even the seemingly
neanest of Gods creatures. So far
from indOrsing the above theory as to
the beneficial effects of mosquito bites,
however, am free to say that if in
reality the doctor is correct in his dis
covery as to the identity of the two
drugs, the advantage of mosquitoes in
the world has yet to be discovered.
But when the house fly is the question
the case is altogether different. We
know that they are the natural scaven.
gers of the home, that they follow the
sunshine, and the two together burn
up and eat up all the particles-a drop
of milk here, of molasses there, to-
gether with the infectious emanations
from the body in the sick-room, etc.,
etc., in fact all the germs. or would-be
germs of disease are consumed by these
blessed companion sanitarians- light
and flies. How are they treated in
many of our homes? The day is hot,
We have eaten too much and of too
heating food, one or two cups of hot
coffee were sent down to raise the tenn
perature of the body in its passage
along the grand canal, and to Offset this
we have drank tumbler or two of ice
lemonade very sweet, taking down a
goodly portion of sugar. very heating
condiment or food. We grow hotter
and hotter, we close the blinds, leaving
an opening of daylight throug gh which
the flies pour until we are rid of the
"pests." Flies are not of those whose
deeds are evil and who choose darkness
rather than light. Their instincts are
superior to our boasted intelligence,
often, and if they do not know that a
darkened room from which the sun
light is carefully excluded soon be-
comes pest hole for the termination
of all the fevers known to man, they
at least for reasons of their own prefer
to stay out with the light. Do we get
to feeling better in our darkened room?
Not at all. The heavy, unwholesome
air weighs us down, and after a time
forbids our putting in practice good
resolution to take little exercise in
the open air. If, however, we shut it
up and 60 out, the clear, open air re-
wives us and we feel every way better,
and when we return and enter the
blinded room, we feel oppressed. An
effort is required to expand the lungs
with this miserable substitute for the
"breath of life.' Now and then an
individual learns this simple lesson, but
more do not and never will. The sun
Is hot, therefore, to be cool, exclude its
light. The flies are annoying, drive them
out. That is the depth of their philos-
ophy, these people who jump at con-
clusiOns. If summer eating was adapted
to the season-food of kind that would
let us keep cool while giving sufficient
strength for the work in hand--the
cooking would be SO slight and the
drippings SO few that flies would have
little to do, and they won't remain
where they are not needed-they seem
TO have a principle against loafng. If
we leave all the windows and blinds
open, burn the screens which exclude
large share of the air that needs to pass
in and through the rooms freely-for it
is the oxygen of the air, vitalized by the
sunshine, penetrating all the corners
and crevices, and the fbers of the cur
tains. carpets and furniture covers that
purities the homc-we shall do well.
In q recent number of Ha1per's Bazar,
Mrs. Beecher has we'll said that no car
pet or piece of furniture too fine for
broad daylight should be tolerated in
any hOme.-Cor. Golden Rule.