Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-28

| The above advertisement appeared in the
| Morning Fly Paper. 1t lured. It attracted
| but it did not enlighten one ]. Musca Do
| mesticus better known to his friends as
| Ina Housefiy. Ina. lately arrived from
southern climes via the dining car route,
was thougthfully mounted on lump of
sugar at the moment In other words he
was relayng at a bean emporium In the
vicinity of Thrty-fourth and Chestnut
streets.
"Eugenic flies. hmm, I never heard Of
them remarked J. Musca, at the same time
contemplatively eyeinG a sinker Guess
they must be some of the swell winter
colony. Well, what's good enough for the
Eugenics is good enough for Ina Me for
a room with n crumb'
And so with childke lack of cogitation,
j. Musca separated himself from a fare
well sugar on bowl and made for the flies
paradise. Up. up he went to the rare air
OF Room S21. Zoology Beach. University of
Pennsylvania. He winged in breathlessly
There before his wondering eyes lay the
beautiful city of Milk -Bottles-on the Floor
OFF TO PARADISE
"Ah," cried lima, proceeding directly to
the porte cochere. mo more skdding on
maple sugar for mine. | shall spend the
rest of my three score and ten hours here"
and with that he boldly entered the grand
foyer of the Hotel Aux Milk Bottles.
Let 1t here he said before we make in
dctment that this was the first grave error
of lma's stainless life. True, he was
frequenter of the Bald Head Inn but that
was in his youth, fully eleven hours before
our story opened. Let us look rather to
his good points. Only that very morning
at o'clock he had hovered payful!y one
might almost say affectionately, around the
nose of an automobile accessory agent
tightly jammed in an upper berth
And now
], Musca DOmesticus. for three times
aggressive candidate for the Anti-Screens
and prime mover in the 'swat-the-hy" ex-
pose, had walked without Introduction, in
vitation or literature into the very midst of
the red-eyed pink-eyed, sepia-lidded. Eosin-
tinted Droslpha. the heroic fruit flies who
had lately pledged themselves and all-oc-
curing branches of themselves to the cause
of the study of heredity under the micro
scope of Or =. W. Whiting, of the zoologi-
cal laboratory of the University of Penn
sylvania,
Here we might draw a mercfuI curtain
but to continue with our story Just as j.
Musca walked up to the register and was in
the act of discovering In what good COM
pany he really was-the hotel houses some
very prominently social fles--a voice
sounded in his near ear, Front. show this
person out" Which order was obeyed. and
Ina found himself on the outside looking in.
All. what scenes toItear the heart OF any
home-loving househyl There was Mrs, Pink
eye in room with plenty of window
space. She was putting the three hundred
little Pink-Eyes to bed. There was o,
Whata Redeye pensvely gnawing on his
room. The aroma of banana long since
deceased smote the air j. Musca could
stand 1t no longer, and he had to turn
away for an hour.
At the last. tender family memories in
duced him TO return to the Pink.Eye apart
ments in SaN-Pint row. Alas for the pas
sage OF time! The Pink-Eyes had grown to |
be young lady and sturdy young gentle |
man flies. |
Through the rotund glass quarters Ina |
could hear Mfs Pink-Eye urging Pink-Eye |
No ass not to use 50 much powder on her |
rose lima passed on TO o, whata Rcd |
Alas! the vegetarian was just in the act |
Of tottering fesbly toward the Bottle for
the Aged.
BACK TO THE ALLEY
Life is fierce. thought lima. and he was
last seen wandering despondently in the
vicinity of the Ether Works
Which all goes TO show that an honest
houseiy has no place with the
Drosphila swells who have migrated from
the famous colony engineered by Prof
Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia Uni
,ersity no that Doctor whiting at
may experiment with them
md extract some general laws OF heredity.
Doctor whiting says his house guests be-
,ome Rrandmothers and Grandfathers
within month after tho nWaG1Iins DorIotk