Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-20
The PeriIous FIy-WhoIessome Bread
 and Milk.


 Dear Dreamer: Your letter on Swat the Fly was very timely. and as \ had letter written on the same lines will send it in.
 The Fly and Infantile Paralysis Dr. Thos. D. Wood, professor of phys ical education Teachers college, Co., lumbus University, says: while much is yet to be learned with reference to all of the sources of the contagion in infantile paralysis (anterior poliom- yelitis), it is now believed that the germs may be conveyed by some of the domestic animals. We are coming to realize what a dirty and deadly enemy of mankind the house fly is, although it has been considered quite harmless and only bit disagreeable and annoying. Millions of bacteria have been found on the feet of a sin gle common fly. It is now believed that it is responsible for many cases of typhoid fever, tuberculosis, infan- tile paralysis and other serious com- municable diseases, and that germs of i tnfantile paralysis may live for forty eight hours at least in the body of the fly; also, that this germ may live for several days in the dust and more especially in the floor dirt of a room in house in which there is a case of this disease The collected dirt should be burned and moist cloths thoroughly disinfected.
 The fly can be eradicated. It is not difficult, only troublesome to get flies out of the house, and you can keep them out. Twenty drops of carbolic acid poured on a hot shovel in tight ly closed room will give off fumes that will kill all the flies in the room. l Once a house Is clear of flies, screens will keep them out. A mixture of car | bolic acid and kerosene swabbed over a screen door will drive away the flies | that usually eongregate there waiting | for some one to open and let them in | If the garbage can is. equipped with | a fly trap, as can be bought in most l house furnishing shops, the flies will gather there for the most part and be
 caught before they can enter the l house. Then if food is kept screened
 and everything that goes into anyOne's
 mouth, spoons, tumblers and baby's nursing bottles are scalded after a fly
 has walked on them, there will be lit tie danger of infection. The test of a good housekeeper used to be the fly less house. Later it was the amount
 Of fresh air and sunshine she let in. l Now it is the combination of both | a task more difficult than that which
 grandmother faced, but not impossible
 Dear Marinda Johnson Butler Rob-
 insOn: For some time I have thought
 l should write you stating that youi
 writings have been very interesting land fully appreciated by me, and es-
 pecially your reply to Co-solid anc
 with such facts and more knowledge
 which time alone will give I'm sure
 she, too. will at least be a sympa- | pnp
 in the cause of suffragists. Now dear
 I hope you won't take it amiss whe1
 I send in an argument for white bread
 Prof Sherman says lime starvation
 is becoming almost universal amons
 Americans because of their use O
 white bread. While recently published reports of the department of agri
 culture say that white bread is su perior in nutritive value to who'll
 wheat bread, and the public who reaC
 these contradictions of competent au
 thorities are naturally confused Th, modern milling of wheat removes som of {ts essential elements. There i
 fouh times much lime in the whol
 wheat as in fine, white flour, SO tha , if one were to live on bread alone i : would be better to use the entir f grain, but entire grain soon spoil
 when ground and it is practically i'm !, possible to furnish a bread made fror the entire grain, so that the bread tha f is commonly sold in stores as whol wheat or graham is not really mad
 from the entire grain.
 h It is true that from the chen1ics Q | viewpoint the white bread is the nor nutritious and the more digestible be f cause it contains 8 smaller percent r age of waste, but the bran is valuabl ), in preventing the massing Of tn k starch, making the bread more ope
 to the digestive juices and therefor f less liable to cause fermentation, Br t the advantage Of bread over cerea - cooked in the doubIe boiler or fireles : cooker. hghtness. is greater in th l white bread and if milk be eaten wit n it. which contains for the adult an ,eS
 cess of lime and of some of the otht It salts, stale white bread is better tha