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

From the Boston Herald.
oh. those detestable fieg," exclaimed the
neat housewife. and the poor little insect
wnich was buzzing away on her clean win
ooN was speedily killed with a weapon
made OF newspaper rolled into a bali at
one end, with the other forming the handl.
II DID the work for the fly and did net
break the window.
Where In the world do they come from 2
screens at every window and every dosr
In the house. How do they get I'M"
"confound. that ny." growied old Bald
head as he tried to get his forty winks'
after dinner In the darkened and quiet beet
parlor. Seems as IL when there WASH Z
but one fly In the house IL always LIGHTED
on my head. There, take that" and he
made a desperate lunge at the little tor
mentor, only TO miss him and See him ~
calmly away with a meditative ana ca
Sun growing, old Baidhead put a papsr
over his head, and thus outwitting the ~
cropped on ID sleep.
IL Is Enthusiastically fly time. The almanac
tells US 50, and 70 the bucolic mind IT
must be so IL the almanac says So"
One KNOWS II As a fact for they can he
seen swarming in pyramids near every gar
bage heap. in the markets. round the sweets
exposed TO view in the confectionery yea
can even be found in my lady's chamber. I"
which Il very apt Go disturb her slumbefs
snd arouse her. would the lark at peep
OF dawn tsay about half-past a. MI, not
with sweet, melodious call, but with q
persistent buzz and by crawling over hvr
fair face In such a teasing manner that
sleep is efrectually vanished for the time
tns 9nesaon Oh "heIs niss come from
Is always q mystery TO the woman who has
her house well screened how even one u
The parents of o good many OF them
were probably housed the year before.
when, in the autumn, vigilance was TO-
laxed, and perhaps a door or window left
With the instinct with which nature has
provided them they crept into the warm
there they hibernated. There, too, they lay
their eggs. Ia to each ny, thus looking out
for the propagation of the race: and So
when the FIRST warm days come they sur
prise us by buzzing away on the windows
or around the table.
In the meantime the eggs are hatchins
and by fly time" they come forth a
Sometimes IN the dead OF winter a fly win
appear, beguilea from his resting place by
the deceptive warmth OF the furnace-heated
house He seems q harblnger OF spring
and perhaps one may be inclined 10 pet u
a bit Don't do Il. XIII Il and thus put az
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 produes
ton when IN a state OF change. These
substances are given out in such small
quantities they are fmperceptible to com
mon observers and not removable by ordi-
nary methods OF cleanliness, even In the
best kept rooms.
When a fly persists in crawling over ones
face Il IS merely taking care OF the paru-
cles Of dead matter thrown on through the
pores and which helps TO keep the complex
lon clean. So IL is really doing good while
Il annoys.
AS a common ny has about four thou
sand eyes Il is no wonder IL Is so hard 10
catch or that st eyades the blows aimed
a IL.