Smyrna times., 1890-08-06
Flies.

the domestic ny anu Cio puOliO ny 49,
the public fly consists Oftwo varietles'
the restaurant fly and the beer garden
Av. Thus we have three distinctive
varieties of the fly which preys on man
the house or fat fly proper, the res
taurant fly and the beer hall n.y.
There is even fourth variety-the
Office fly but it is really another
kind of house fly, from which it varies
but little, and it is few in numbers and
generally ends an inglOrious career by |
becoming Intoxicated on the ink bottle
and drowning itself in the mucilage
not. Mr.. Edward Atkinson of Boston,
in a recent article in the Cape Cod
Quarterly RevieO puts the number of
domestic Gys of the United States at
%. .476 to the square mile, and he says
in cities the number rises to one hun
dred thousand times this figure to the
square mile which shows how impOr-
tant it is that we have right under
standing with creature so numerous
and so bound up with our daily lives.
The distinguishing characteristic of
the house fly is confidence and easy fa-
miliarity that of the restaurant fly
i'll temper and vindicativeness that Of
the beer room fly Incidence and subtle
ness. The distinguishing features of
the house hy-assurance and familiar
ity-were developed, we should say,
bv good living and by being constant
ly in the society of the family. The
restaurant fly seems to owe his fiery
temper and revengeful spirit to abuse
on the part of both customers and
walters, and to too frequent indulgence
| in the pepper sauce bottle. The lazi-
ness eff the brewery or beer garden fly
may be clearly traced to beer, but his
subtlety and philOsophic temperament
come from his treatment by those
around him. The beer garden fly is
never struck at with the hand or
whisked with a napkin as is the restau-
raut fly nor told to "shOo" or lured in
to the pitfall ly paper as is the house
fly; he is treated as an equal by wait
ers and patrons alike. And moreover
he is employed in that game requiring
so much less exertion than foot ball in
which two or more men seat them
selves at a table, each with n drop o.
beer on the board before them. the
man winning whose drop Of beer frs
causes a fly to stop and sip. Despite
his apathy and apparent indifference
! we suspect the beer gUrden fly is {
good deal of q cynic, and that he ha!
/ the poorest opinion of man ofany o
the lot, but he is too philosOphic tC
: fight him like the restaurant fly o
J to poster him to death like the hOus
fly.
OF the three kinds of flies under con
sideratiOn, though the restaurant fl!
is the best athlete, the house lly is les
often killed. 1t is impossible for tn,
most active man to strike house fly
the restaurant fly is as quick or quick
er in his movements than the hOus
fly, but he frequently grows desperat
$ and rushes into certain death, like Al
Is mold of Winkelried. The heer tabl
fly believes in the doctrine of non-re
sistance if struck he makes no effoI
Z; to escape but seems gladly to die. w
1f do not attribute this so much to lac
D of spirit as to a feeling that life is nc
- - worth fighting for. But though tn
le house fly cannot be struck down h
'. can be trapped, something which it
difficult to do with the restaurant fl.
as he never stops long enough in i
active offensive warfare 10 SEQ ira
J. and the few attempts which haN
= been made to trap the beer garden
have resulted in miserable failures.
instantly seeing through the scheu
and walking scOrnfully past. The ia
Orite diversion of the house hy is
ars crawl over the unprotected scalp OF
rs bald headed man or holding athlet
nd sports over the face of person who
We trying to take an extra morning ma
ce. The restaurant fly is never so hapI
~, as when running violently into ii
as eye of customer after having be
uusuccessfully whisked by wait'
III The beer room fly finds his greatest d
light in alighting on the coat sleeve
For a customer and relapsing into de
thought-the most indeed, and t
only troublesome thing he ever does
to drown himself in a patrons be
These three flies were originally
same-that their environments shou
produce such change in them me
tally should make them a favor
study for the Darwinites. With
clear and comprehensive understaI
ing of the fly question, the reader m
now turn, strengthened aud refresh'
to the tariffbi and the war in Sou
America