The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-08-20
MlNT-EYED MONSTERS.
And They Sleep With Their Feet Up Yet
Not Upon Their Backs.

Not Upon Their Backs.
ooh, those detestable fllesr exclaimed
the neat housewife, and the poor little
insect which was buzzing away on her
clean window was speedily killed with a
weapon made Of a newspaper rolled into
a ball at one end with the other form
ing the handle. 50,
II did the work for the fly and did
not break the window
Where in the world do they come
from2 Screens at every wi7d-" ana
every door in the house. How 90 they
get in?"
"Confound that fly" growled old Bald
head as he tried to get his forty winks
after dinner in the darkened and quiet
best parlor Seems as If when there
wasn't bur one ny in the house It always
lighted on my head. THERE take that,
and he made a desperate lunge at the
little tormcntor, only 20 miss him and
see him ny calmly away with medi-
tative and exasperating hum.
Still growing old Baldhead nr' pa
per over his head. and thus outwfttlng
the fly dropped off 10 sleep.
1t is Enthusiastically fly time The al
manac tells us so. and to the buconc
mind lit must be 50 II the almanac
says So
be seen swarming in pyramids near every
garbage heap, in the markets, round the
sweets exposed TO view in the confec-
TONERS; yes. can even be found I'm my
ladys chamber" which is very apt 10
disturb her siumbers and arouse her,
as would the lark, at peep OF dawn SAY
about half past A. NJ, not with
sweet. melodious call, but with per-
sstent buzz and by crawling over her
fair face in such a teasing manner that
sleep is effectually vanished for the
time
The question of where flies come from
IS asked many times during the sum-
mer. II is always mystery 10 the
woman who has her house well screened
how even one of the little pests can get
In.
Tho parents OF good many OF them
were probably housed the year before,
when. in the autumn. vigilance was ie-
laxed and perhaps a door or window left
unguarded.
With the instinct with which nature
has provided them, they crept into the
warm house into cracks not perceptiDle'
and there they hibernated. There, 90,
they lay their eggs, III 10 each ny, thus
looking out for the propagation OF the
race, and so, when the first warm days
come, tuey surprise 10 ny buNNihe """s
on the windows or around the table
In the mean time the eggs are hatch
ing, and by Fly time" they come forth In
swarms
Sometimes In the dead OF winter a fly
will appear, beguiled from his resting
place by the deceptive warmth OF the
furnace-heated house. He seems a har-
binger of spring, and perhaps one may be
inclined 10 pet IL bit. Don't do II. XIII
It and thus put an end TO a prospective
future generation of flies. They are ma
tural scavengers. Their purpose IN life
is to consume various substances which
are thrown OF from the human body, by
articles OF food and by almost every ami
NAL and vegetable production when In a
state of change. These substances ERE
given out in such small quantities they
are imperceptible to common observers
and not removable by ordinary methods
OF cleanliness. even In the best Lept
rooms.
When a fly persists in crawling over
ones face II is merely taking care OF the
particles OF dead matter thrown OF
through the pores and which helps 20
keep the complexion clean. So IT is really
doing good while IL annoys.
AS a common fly has about four thou
sand eyes IL is no wonder It Is so hard TO
catch or that It evades the blows aimed
at it.-Boston Herald.