Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-19
MANY-EYED MONSTERS.
And They sleep With Their Feet In,
Yet Not Upon Their Backs.

From the Boston Herald
"Oh! those detestable fies!" exclaimed the
neat housewife. and the poor little insect
which was buzzing away on her clean win
dow was speedily killed with a weapon
made Of a newspaper rolled into a ball at
one end, with the other forming the handle
1t did the work for the hy and did not
break the window.
Where in the world do they come FRONT
Screens at every window and every door
in the house. How DO they get I'M"
''confound that ny," growled old Bald
head as he tried to get his forty winks''
after dinner In the darkened and quiet best
parlor. Seems as II when there wasn't
but one fly in the house 1t always lighted
on my head. There! take that" and he
made a desperate lunSe at the little tor
mentor, only 10 miss him and see him fy
calmly away with a meditative ana ex-
Sun growing. old Baldhead put a paper
over his head. ana thus outwitting the dy
II is unmistakably Ay time. The almanac
tells US 50. and TO the bucolic mind 1t
must be so IL the almanac says So"
One knows IL is TACT Tor they can be
seen swarming in pyramids near every gar
bage heap. in the markets, round the swe ets
exposed to view In the confectionery; Yes,
can even be found in my lady's chamber"
which Is very apt TO disturb her SAUNDERS
and arouse her, as would the lark at peep
OF dawn tsay about half-past a m.l. not
persistent buzz and by crawling over her
fair face in such teasing manner that
sleep is effectually vanished for the time.
The question Of where flies come from -
asked many times during the summer IL
is always a mystery TO the woman " no has
her house well screened how even one OF
the little pests can get in.
The parents OF a good many Of them
were probably housed the year before.
when, in the autumn, vigilance was re-
Taxed, and perhaps a door or window LETT
unguarded.
With the instinct with which nature has
provided them they crept into the warm
house. into cracks not perceptible. and
there they hibernated. There, too, they lay
their eggs. La to each fly. thus looking out
for the propagation Of the race: and so
when the Arst warm days come they sur
prise us b. buzzing away on the windows
or around the table.
In the meantime the eggs are Matching.
and by my ZINE" they come forth in
swarms.
Sometimes In the dead Of winter a fly viii
appear beguiled from his resting place. by
the deceptive warmth OF the furnace-heated
house. He seems a hsrbnger OF spring.
and perhaps one may be inclined 10 pet IL
a bit. Don't do il. Kill II and thus put an
end TO a prospective future generation OF
flies. They are natural scavengers. Their
purpose In life is TO consume various sub
stances which are thrown of from the
human body, by articles Of food and by
almost every animal and vegetable produe-
ton when IN state OF change: These
substances are given i, 0Ss ~ secn =, sna I
mon observers and not removable by ordi-
nary methods OF cleanliness, even in the
When a fiy persists in crawling over ones
face it is merely taking care OF the parti-
cles Of dead matter thrown on through the
pores and which helps 70 keep the complex
ion clean. so IL Is reaAAy oolhs sooo WINE
Il annoys
catch or that it evades the blows aimed
IL.