Evening journal., 1901-07-23
WAYFARER'S NOTEBOOK
House of Many BUGS

House OF Many BUGS
In most cases the slang words,
"bug house" mean a lunatic asylum,
but in the case CT nswly-married
couple who reside in Market street
near Twelfth it WAS case of bug
house pure and simple, and if the
Wayfarer has been informed correctly,
there were so many water bugs in the
new home that II almost made the
bride and groom IT subjects for lu-
matte asylum. The building was liter
ally filed with bags There were big
bugs, little bugs, dark bugs, light
bugs, grey bugs, black bugs. timid
bugs and bold bugs. The house was
bug infested They got in the butter,
in the sugar, and in every imaginable
place that a bug was a nuisance, there
ne appeared.
At meal times when hucband and
wife would be talking over family
matters, they would Suddenly become
cware that several black bugs were
staring at them. IL was an awful state
OF affairs.
Dalmatian powder and Black Flag
we're used in abundance. Sulphur
was burned throughout the house and
ccal oil and gasoline were poured into
their favUite haunts. but uais seemed
only TO increase the number CT bugs.
The young wife was cross and the
husband desperate. He felt like COM
hitting murder, but before he could
decide whom he should kill, he would
find pesky bug crawling along his
neck and at the same time see one or
two promenading about the shoulders
of ,he woman he had promised to pro-
tcCt
Upon returning from his office du-
ties one evening, he found his wife in
better spirits. and before he could ask
a question she said: Dear, | know
how we can get rid of the bugs"
How said he, grasping the door
frame for support, for he was almost
overcome with joy.
why, dear, Mrs. Blank told me il
we woald catch the boss bug and take
1t to the house of one Of our neighbcre
and leave it that the other bugs would
follow"
lie saw that she was in earnest and
to attempt any ridicule would create
family fight, so he said:
Dear, | hope that your plan is ali
right, end he pictured himself carry
| ing the boss bug" out of the house
land down the street with an army OF
bugs trailing behind. The thought
was too much, and he was forced tc
smile
It was week before he captured the
boss bug He spent his evenings and
spare time in trying to find the biggest
bug, and was assisted by his faithful
wife. At times she would be in the
garnet and would scream for him To
come. lie would grasp a rule and dash
upstairs to be informed that a big one
iust ran behind a trunk and some
iother stuff. He would hustle garrel
| furniture until he measured the bug
only to find that II was about the 1OOtf
part Of an inch smaller than the big
gesi he had measured.
Finally his efforts were crowned with
success, and he caught the boss bug ,
Wrapping the priced insect in q
piece OF tissue paper he took it out
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wife In a loud voice that he was goine
to take the bug up the street. He did
this SO That the other bugs might heal
land follow.
He walked out Of the house. leaving
the doors open, and walked up the
street occasionally glancing over his
shoulder to see il the bugs were fol.
lowing. As they did not he walked
part OF the way back and put the boss
bug On the doorstep of the residence
cf Levi c. Bird, Upon his return to the
house he found his wife standing on g
chair watching for the bug march tC
Ibegin.
They were disappointed and sat in
lsilence until bedtime.
In about a week after the abduction
Of the boss bug they realized tha'
the bugs were all gone, and the young
man now takes the opposite side of tn,
street in passing Mr.. Birds home.