The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-08-31

and germs If there is any dirt in your house
or about your premises, or those of your neigh
bors, he has just come from 1t. Watch him as
he stands on the sugar industriously wiping his
feet. He is getting rid o. disease germs, rub
bing them on the sugar that you are going to
eat, leaving the poison for you to swallow.
This does more to spread typhoid fever and
cholera infantum and other Intestinal diseases
than any other cause.
Disease attacks human beings only when
they are brought in contact with 1t. For In
stance, you cannot get typhoid fever unless you
swallow the germs of typhoid and you do not
swallow these germs unless they get on the
food you eat, or In the liquids you drink, or on
the glasses or cups from which you drink
Intestinal diseases are more frequent when
ever and wherever flies are most abundant, and
they, and not the summer heat, are the active
agents of it's spread
There is special danger when flies drop into
such fluid as milk. This forms an ideal cul-
ture material for the bacillus few germs
washed from the body of one fly may develop
into millions within few hours, and the per-
son who drinks such milk will receive large
doses of bacilli, which may later cause serious
sickness.
Here are some valuable fly "dont's" for the
housewife:
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don't allow your fruits and confections to be
exposed to the swarms Of flies.
Don't let flies crawl over the baby's mouth and
swarm upon the nipple of its nursing bottle.
Strike at the root of the evil Dispose of waste
materials in such way that the house-fy cannot
propagate, for flies breed in horse manure de-
caying vegetables, dead animals, and all kinds OF
filth, look after the garbage cans, that they
are cleaned, sprnkled with lime or kerosene oil,
and closely covered.
Screen all windows and doors and insist that
l~o1-A
whom you buy foodstuffs does the same, and re-
member that a large percentage of flies breed in
the stable.
There is more health in well-screened house
than in many a doctors visit.
After you have cleaned up your own premises,
inspect the neighborhood for fybreeding places
Call the attention of the owner to them and II
Of health.
Keep flies away from the kitchen Keep flies
out of the dining room and away from the sick,
especially from those i'll with contagious dis
eases.
To clear rooms of flies, carbolic acid may be
used as follows Heat shovel or any similar
article and drop thereon 20 drops of carbolic
acid. The vapor kills the flies.
A cheap and perfectly reliable fly poison one
which is not dangerous to human life, is bichro-
mate of potash in solution Dissolve one dram,
which can be bought at any drug store, in two
ounces of water. and add a little sugar. Put
some Of this solution in shallow dishes and dis
tribute them about the house.
Sticky fly paper, traps and liquid poisons are
among the things to use in killing flies, but the
latest cheapest, and best is a solution of forma-
lin or formaldehyde in water. spoonful of this
liquid put into quarter of pint of water and
exposed in the room will be enough to kill all
the flies.
To quickly clear the room where there are
many flies, burn pyrethrum powder in the room.