The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-09-03
Bed.Bugs.

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made noise like mosquitoes: but mo-!
they come upon you like . thief in thf
night, while all is quiet. am thankfnj
that bite wakes me at once. elsa
might not have known to this dav IA
the enemy was in our midst. Il ~
more than two weeks after I felt the
ilrst alarm, and lit lamp to kin the foe.
before | was able to clean the suspicious
chamber. Every day turned I'M the
corners OF the mattresses and exam.
med the hedsteads, and scrutinized an
the bedding and walls, but never = bue
ald see except in the night. Onlv =
Few nights before the cleaning I found
the first small bugs, half dozen adnlts
having preceded them in previous
nights. l never sleep soundlv when 7
suspect bed:bugs, but light a iamn and
60 to hunting whenever I hear a child
nesting uneasily. I began to clean the
chamber BY examining sll the clothino
as took 1t down from the hooks: III
the articles Of furniture a. I removed
tnem nom the rooms; then everv arti-
Gle OF bedding, but with no success nnt;l
l came to the mattresses. On tvo cor.
ners found the clusters of tinv vhita
eggs with some wly-hatched bups' ana
IN Two or three places in the sprinr.he1
nests = :. which promised prolific increase
All OF the time was very careful not N n
scatter them, preferring 10 hunt the,n IN
tee bedsteads, and hoping to run mo- FL.
OF getting them into the walls or nndsr
the mob.boards. One slat 1t Tina "a.
tax taken o.. opt carefully, Watching a each
enc, and then examined in e7erv nor.
uon before putting back. Tho viola
oedstead was cleaned, and them ~
cracks and joints brushed With ~.
monia. / like to use this becanas i I'm.
IN the bugs and Il belieue. but am not cer.
e ts,n from my own observation destrovs
t tne ~ i'ie OF the eggs, but it, powerful
smell brings out ID dismay any 6urs thst
nave escaped my eye. use 4 line IN
ting needle to poke out the cracks q
klll al OF the bugs. and crush All liz
esgs tnat see, and dose well With an.
mona where | can not sec. I found |
only . few full-grown buzz. = ana r.
seemed to mo I did tho hnntinc ~
destruction business very thoro1ohiv
put never feel sure that the vorf e FL
y aohe, ANA continue to watch and search
lor some time after the big hunt. III
1ee another bug l shalt try Tho nav
remedy recommended to me bv 4 naioh
oor; She says there is nothing In sI1m.
!; sne nas learned BY experience. Her
llrect'ons were: 'Dissolve alum IL
vater' using : little more alum an the
Nater VIII take up. Wash over 'svsrs
possible place for bugs With this strons
'olutlon, using q rse or q hrnsh ~
nost convenient" This remedy IL ~
'o cheap, and IS said 70 be very eneot.
~, FOR = log house, or in unllniahel
ooms. how would it do to use 4 vEitn
vash brush, and 20 al over TIA weiis
Ioors and ceilingsp Alum ische.n sn@
y easily dissolved in water. - - j.
asked, :" How do they GOMEZ" W.
. "a not tell in each particular case. but
y great care we can usually keen fra
rom them, though the case Il : had
e. when one moves intoa house v;th
sssted walls. Ny neighbor lent ;, m
morella, and when, after a weak NJ -
was returned, she opened it whils
arrying it to its place. She had M
bought Of bugs, but there was 4 noo Or
ungry- Looking bed-bug In the folde o ~
= umbrella! A hired man came IA = !
lace to work, and the next morn;rs !. =
~ was found on the wall near kis :
alise. An overcoat wss borro~ .s ~ ;r
storm, and in its folds was fo,,nd 9
sd'bog. People who are verv "c.rsf.i q
sver lay the outer clothing Of yisitors :, =
BON BON : bed, but upon table or chs;r a a
seems unkind 70 be 50 suspicious. but y y
y mother tells Of seeing 5 ereat 4i he'd 81. s
4 on the shawl'of i visitor. Al Il wss : :
'nded to her, which 90 disconcsrted :,
7 that she impulsively started to carrv :, :.
'tn bonnet and shawl into. the vood. "
e. :. a very neat and lovely LADY, told \; !,
9 Of finding one OF these repul.ivs !.
.ects on the white strings 81 her Leo. J" "
m bonnet on her return Nome ffrom u u
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