The Coconino sun., 1901-11-09
BURGLARS. MOSQUITOES && AND CURIOSITY @A
WHILE the amateur experiment.
al farm is not ready to mak,

mosquitoes, subject which seems to be expressing the attention of sci- entists everywhere, it is able to make show of substantial progress. The mosquitoes forced themselves on the attention of the amateur farmer one evening a couple of weeks ago while he was sitting out under the oak trees near the house enjoying the moonlight and the breeze At first the effort was in the direction of cure rather than prevention. A shelf was labeled Remedies for mosquito bites," and was soon half filled with glass bottles and pasteboard boxes. Everything that anybody had ever recommended as cure for mosquito bites was procured, and after one had anointed himself with half dozen of these preparations mosquitoes were the least of his troubles. The cook lady, who was most persistent in their use, soon developed face which resembled the palette of an impressionist painter, and she an- nounced that if something was not uOhC to hVlP ShC was koIhS puCA to town. Her complexion was ruined, anyway, so it was.
 The retired agriculturist came over one morning and chuckled unpleas- antly as he looked at the row of bot ties. He had forgotten his false teeth and was, consequently. in Q most sarcastic mood.
 "It's easy enough to get rid of the skeeders," he said. All you got to do is to take chaw-a fine cut and rub a leedle curosene ile on yere face, an there ye be. Not skeed- er'll touch ye."
 An attempt was made to get the assistant agriculturist to apply the fine cut and the kerosene, but he re- fused to sacrifice himself on the al- tar of science. Accordingly, it is im- possible to state positively whether or not the remdey of the retired agriculturist is an effective one, though it sounds as if it would be fatal, to the mosquitoes at least.
 It was the lady of the manor who finally, in a moment of inspiration, devised what promises to be an epoch-making invention in the mos- quito line. She drove downtown with the assistant experimental:st one morning and returned shortly with the surrey full of lumber and cylin- drical bundles. When the experi- mental farmer started for the city the assistant was already busy with saw, hammer and nails. When he asked what was being built he was told to wait and see.
 When he got back home that even- ing the lawn near the house was dot ted with what looked like the un- feshGd skeletons of small chicken coopA. Inside each was rocking chair and small table, on which stood candlestick and a book.
 Look" said the lady of the manor, triumphantly, those are individual anti-mosquito cages. They are cov- cred with mosquito netting. You step inside, sit down and pull the flaps together, and you may enjoy the moonlight and the breeze as long as ever you please without the slight est danger of being bitten by mos- quitoes."
 On his own motion the assistant experimentalist had gone even fur ther He had built for his own use a cylindrical mosquito-proof helmet and a pair of gauntlets, incased in which he could safely defy anything which flies, and which enabled him to dispense with an anti-mosquito cage and move about at pleasure.
 After dinner the entire family got into their cages and proceeded to en- joy the cool of the evening, the glo- ries of the sunset and the splen- dor of the rising moon. This proceed