Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-07-07

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mosquitoes! like to take q few
sucks in the slop pail, then turn
at the garbage can, then | am ready
to snuggle down real soft like on
the sleeping baby of the house. OF
course, IL the baby dies | have &c
hunt ~ another house where there
Is baDy, for | dote on babies when
It comes to spreading disease.
One of my favoriIe sports Is a visit
to sick people. II does not matter
whether ! made them sick or no
II they have some contagious dis.
ease. 10 much the better am al
ways on the spot. can carry away
more isease-breeding germs than
any mosquito that was ever bred In
the tomato cans in good, kind old
Mr.. Snifkins' garbage pile.
What do | do with these disease
breeding germs? Well, | certainly
know my business. If the wind is
not too strong ! make Decline for
some house where there Is no sick.
ness and bore into some of The fam
lily, and before they turn In for the
night you bet | have unloaacd q
goodly supply of germs.
II was only a few days ago that |
sat on the corner of pictnre frame
anI watshed young lathe and
mother weeping over the lit dead
body of their firstborn. wondered
II they know that | was thu murder
er OF that little baby. But. then,
they must have wanted me, because
when left the house In the morn
Ing Ito find house where there was
another baby, noticed lot or
empty cans in the fence corner, and
taking a lCok at them | saw a lot
of fine, healthy wrigglers, and !
really felt sorry for the young cou.
pie whose baby had murdered, for
] knew they were friends OF mos.
quitoes.
have had some narrow escapes
dur Ing my short life. but the one
that gave me the biggest scare and
made me think that my mosquito
career was finished, was one evening
when | had just loaded up with
some extra fine germs from the hos
pital, and had made quite a flight,
looking for some new blood TO min
gle my hospital germs with, when
noticed an open window with no
screen. A young lady sat near a
lamp reading a book. Her cheek
lookedso fair and plump that took
a chance at 1t. As | was about to
alight she accidentally brushed her
hand across her cheek and yawned,
and in trying to escape the move
meEt Of her hand / got into the in
hale of the yawn, and the first thing
! knew | was halfway down her
throat. OF course, she commenced
to cough and expectorate and gag,
and thought my time had come, but
at last ! came up with some OF the
terrible eXertions that were being
made and landed on the wet grass
outside of the window. Yes, IL was
close call. and In the melee lost
my load of disease germs.
In the States, am told. the cold
winter season kills off large mum.
bers Of our big family, but here,
thank goodness and good. kind old
Mr.. Snifkins and his sort, who have
such delightfully."- filthy back yards
and never use acids or punch holes
In discarded tin cans, we breed the
year round
The Board Of Health is our only
foe, and It Is making the hardest
fight ever against me and my kind.
But let them do their worst. Let
them saturate Hawaii from end to
end with their vile NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ing fluids, only leave us kind. good
old Mr.. Snifkins pile of cans, hold
Ing stagnant water, and alone will
create faster than they can de-
stroy. have not crossed the
bridge on the middle OF life" yet,
still | can name my great grand
children back to the tenth genera
tion, ard II escape the slaps that
are aimed at me for the next two
weeks can increase the number of
my direct descendants to 940,63S,-
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