The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-27
MANY-ExED MONSTERS.
And They Sleep With Their Feet Up,
Yet Not Upon Their Backs.


From the Boston Herald.
ooh those detestable flies p exclaimed
the neat housewife, and the poor little
insect which was buzzihg away on hen
clean window was speedily killed with a
weapon made of newspaper rolled into a
ball at one end, with the other forming
the handle
1t did the work for the fly and did not
break the window.
where in the world DO they coma
from2 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 winks''
after dinner in 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 Therel take thati''
and he made desperate lunge at the
little tormentor, only to miss him and see
him fly calmly away with meditative
| and exasperating hum.
Still growing, old Baldhead put q paper
over his head, and thus outwitting the
fly, dropped of to sleep.
1t is Enthusiastically fly time The alma
nae tells us so, and to the bucolic mind ''it
must be so if the almanac says So"
One knows it is fact, for they can be
seen swarming in pyramids near every
garbage heap, in the markets, round the
sweets exposed to view in the confeetion-
ers' yes, can even be found sin my lady's
chamber, y which is very apt to disturb
her slumbers and arouse her, as would
the lark at peep Of dawn (say about $3.50
o'clock a. N y not with a sweet, melo-
dious call, but with a persistent 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 summer.
1t 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 good many of them
were probably housed the year before
when, in 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 percepti-
Bile, 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 ia
BILE.
In the meantime the eggs are Matching
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 fur
nace-heated house. He seems a harbinger
Of spring, and perhaps one may be in
clined to pet it bit. Don't do it. Kill it
and thus put an end to a prospective
future generation of flies. They are nat
ural scavengers. Their purpose in life is
to consume various substances which are
thrown of from the human body, by arti-
cles of food and by almost every animal
and vegetable production when in a state
of change. These substances are given
out in such small quantities they are inn
perceptible to common observers and not
removable by ordinary methods of clean
liness, 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 to
keep the complexion clean So it is really
doing good while it annoys.
AS a common fly has about four thou
sand eyes it is no wonder that it is so hard
to catch or that it evadss the blows aimed
at it,