Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-05-06
DOMESTIC SCIENCE
BY Emma Paddock Telford.

DOMESTIC SCIENCE
BY Emma Paddock Telford.
The housef'y. stealing from his narrow
grave,
Dragged with the opiate that Novem-
Der gave.
Beats with faint wing against the sun
ny pane.
Or crawls, tenacious DER its lucid plane.
%. w. Holmes.
Great leas have little heas
| Upon their backs to bite EN-.
And little neas have lesser neas,
And so on ad inhnitum.
James Russell Lowell (Bgelow Papers.)
MENU UNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Stewed Rhubarb
Cereal
Corn Beef Hash and Poachcd Eggs.
Coffee Pop overs
Cream of Satisfy Soup
| Onions Radshes
| Roast Beef Drowned Potatoes
| Parsnips
Artichoke Salad
| Rhubarb Pie
Black Coffee
SUPPER
Potato and Herring Salad
Whole Wheat Bread and Butter
| Custard Sponge Cake
1t is not necessary to go TO Africa to
fine game at this season. The most Of
/ lis can locate 1t on our own preserves.
even if they be no larger than city
fiat While the " game" we seek. Is
small and not secluded in the Nature
Study courses while no bounty is
awarded for its capture and trophies
of the chase are not in demand for hall
or library adornment. the one who IS
vigilant In pursuit and capture or in
DETECTING these small and unweleome
visitors into other fields and pastures
not your own, is doing good work for
home and fatherland
And first on the Inst of disease trans
initters, the ordinary house fly. Not so
long ago mothers used to sing to their
children
'Rahy Bye, here's ny
Let US catch him,
You and /,
Here he goes on his toes
Tickling habys nose"
The up-to-date mother doesn't wait
for Master Fly to tickle baby's nose,
for does she not know that single
fly may be carrying in his mouth and
on his legs more than 10000 of the
most disgusting bacteria not only ca
pable. but in many cases bound to trans
NIT the germs of typhoid or some intest-
| inal disease to Baby Bye
| AS for that other oft-quoted bard who
| babe the fly freely welcome to my
! cup he should have taken view of the
| tiy's feet before he wiped them on his
cup and perchance his welcome would
| have been less free.
Having its origin in filth, it carries
with It the bacteria which breed In
| filth and as II moves about crawling
| first over refuse then over the food on
| the table, flying from the lips OF the
| cancerous or tuberculosis patient to the
rosy lips Of some mothers darling. IT
| becomes more dangerous to modern So
! cety than as though all the Wild beasts
| from African jungles. were turned loose
| in our streets. Infant diseases which
chiefly prevail in the hot season when
flies abound are due. now say the
scientists. to the flies themselves and not
to the hot weather which We formerly
accused. An English health officer in
giving his experiences in the Journal Of
the Royal Sanitary Institute. says the
pollution Of max by the fly is respon-
sibc for the death OF many children.
The fly Is specially fond OF milk and
plants bacteria in it which breed rapidly.
MIX is thus infected not only in the
city homes where it Is carelessly ex-
posed. but at farms before il Is brought
TO the city Practically all dairymen
keep horses and usually the horse stables
are near the COW sheds. In this way the
hes breeding In the stables. fly directly
10 the milk. In the crusade which the
United States department Of agriculture
is now waging against the fly In this
country the first recommendation is to
destroy the breeding places. Kerosene
oil or common salt thrown over places
where the fly is wont to lay her eggs
! will help In the determination. All
stable sweepncs should be Immediately
carried away. or confined in a tight re-
Ceptac!e until they can be removed Pour
kerosene into the drains. Do not allow
decay wing MARTIAL of any sort to accumu-
late on or near your premises. Keep the
garbage pail clean. carefully covered
! and scalding daily or sprinklinE with
lime or oil Burn or bury as much table
refuse as possible. Keep all food cover
ed and see that your butcher or green
grocer has all his food exposed for sale,
screened. Keep flies away from the sick.
especially those Ill with any infectious or
contagious disease. KIN every fy that
strays into the sick room. remembering
| that his body Is covered with disease
germs. Screen all windows and doors
particularly kitchen and dining room
weekly wipjnE over the outside of screens
with kerosene keeps flies from settling
there ready for entrance.
Home MADE FLY POTION.
Mix together one tablespoonful cream
| the same amount OF powdered blac
pepper and tablespoonful brown SUI
gar, Put IN p saucer. darken the room
| saucer contains the mixture.
TO SAFEGUARD THE FAMILY FROM
| THE FLY PAPER
Fly paper is good in its place; but
that is not affixed to any ones gar
| ments rash enough to sit down upon
It, nor yet TIE cats back. To safe
| guard the fly paper as much as pos
sble, lay when opened on newspaper
| folded in two or three thickneSses 70