Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-09-17
M.NY-EYED MONSTERS.
And They sleep with Their Feet Up Yet
Not Upon Their IIacks.

ooh. these detestable flies" exclaimed
the neat housewife, end the poor little
insect which was buZzng away on her
clean window was speedily killed with
yeapon made Of n newspaper rolled into
a ball at one end, with the other form
ing the handle.
It did the work for the fly and did not
break the window, says the Boston Her
aid.
where in the world do they come
from? Screens at every window and
every door in the house. How do they
get in?'
"Confound that fly" growled old Bald
head. as he tried TO get his forty
wlnks" after dinner I'm the darkened and
quiet best parlor. Seems as If when
there wasn't but one fly in the house
It always lighted on my head. There!
take that" and he made a desperate
llnge at the little tormentor, only 10
miss him, and see him fly calmly away
with a meditative and exasperating hum.
Still growing, old Baldhead put
paper over his head, and thus outwit-
ting the fly. dropped off to sleep.
1t is Enthusiastically fly time The al
manac tells us SO. and 70 the bucolic
mind at must be 50 If the almanac says
So
one knows It is a fact, for they can
be seen swarming in pyramids near
every garbage heap, in the markets.
round the sweets exposed TO view in the
confectioners: yes, can even be found
Gin my lady's chamber" which Is very
ant 10 disturb her slumbers and arouse
her. as would the lark, at peep of dawn
(say about $50 n. m.) not with a sweet.
melodious call. but with persistent
buzz. and by crawling over her fair face
in such teasing manner that sleep Is
effectually banished for the time.
The question where files come from
IL asked many times during the summer
II is always a mystery to the woman
who 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. I'm the autumn. vigilance was re-
Taxed, and perhaps door or window
left 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, III to each fly, thus
looking out for the propagation of the
race: and so, when the first warm days
come. they surprise us by buZZing away
on the windows or around the table.
III IHt UltdHilntt NiAt fbHo hiN lttNNh-
ing and by "hy-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 har-
binger OF spring and perhaps one may
be inclined to pet II bit. Don't do IT,.
XIII It. and thus put an end to pros
pective future generation of flies. They
are natural Scayengers. Their purpose
I'm life Is TO consume various substances
which are thrown off from the human
body. by articles OF food and by almost
every animal and vegetable production
when in a state OF change. These sub
stances, are given out In such small
quantities that they are imperceptible
10 common observers, and are not remov-
able by ordinary methods OF cleanli-
ness even in the best kept rooms.
When a fly persists In crawling over
ones face. 1t is merely taking care OF the
PARTICLES OF dead matter thrown OFF
through the pores, and which helps 10
keep the complexion clean SO 1t Is really
doing good while IL annoys.
As a common fly has about 1900 eyes
II Is no wonder II Is hard 10 catch or
that it eyades the blows aimed at II.