Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1917-07-17
Fly Enemy
Of Family
HousetUife Should Screen All
Windows and Doors
Very Carefully
GET RID OF DIRT, TOO

Summer is a season of trial to the
housewife. Not only does the heat do
much to add to her discomfort, espe-
cially if she must spend good deal
of her time in a hot kitchen cooking
the family meals, but that summer pest
the fiy-comes to make her life mis-
cradle. 1t is a menace and danger
to the health of her family. While 1t
remains in her house she is not free
from the possibility and probability
of catching some dread disease given
her by the harmless little insect that
lights on her food.
Almost everyone knows nowadays
that flies are bred in the filthiest spots
imaginable; that they live on filth and
carry germs of typhoid and other dread
diseases from one place to another.
Therefore their determination is neces-
sary to the good health of the family,
and every one that enters the house
must be killed Immediately.
While screening every window in the
home is undoubtedly expensive, still
money is well spent for this purpose,
for by shutting out the pests you are
safeguarding the health of the whole
family. The most convenient screens
are those made on adjustable wood or
steel frames, for these may be inserted
in the windows at will and taken out
when wanted. Or wooden frame may
be made the full size of the outer cas-
ing of the window and covered with
wire screening. This may be inserted
in the spring and removed in the au-
tumn, or, if desired, the screen may
be left in all the winter, especially In
the upper rooms, to prevent children
from falling out when the windows are
open.
If you do not feel that you can af-
ford to spend money on screens of this
sort, you can bar the house fly effec-
lively by lacking mosquito netting,
which costs but a few cents a yard,
to the outer window casing so as to
cover the whole window. This will
last one season, can easily be torn
down and replaced cheaply and easily
the next spring.
|. Many housewives who take the pre-
caution of screening all their windows
and doors are still troubled by the pres
ence of flies. They cannot understand
where the pests come from, as all APP
parent entrances to the house are cut
off. But If there are open fireplaces
in the houses flies will come down
these, even though a fire may be burn
ing at the time. Screen the fireplace
by lacking up mosquito netting. This
will keep the pests out.
The home cook can do much to ale
viate the fly evil by keeping her
kitchen Immediately clean during
the summer season. Flies love to con-
gregate in bits of food, and if there
is any left lying about they are sure
to take advantage of the fact. AS soon
as a meal is finished, clear up the
dishes Immediately, scrape them clean
of all food and put them to soak in a
dish basin. Put all extra food away
in the icebox at once, leaving nothing
about that may become contaminated
Dy the pest.
If in spite of your precautions you
are still bothered with flies, 1t is best
to invest in fly paper or some other
sort of exterminator, and to put these
about the house. They should be
placed, however, beyond the reach of
children's. hands, as all fly destroyers
are made up largely of poison. One
of the best ways of exterminating
these pests is to buy one of the wire
fly killers sold in any Of the big stores
and to go about the house "swatting'
the fly until this dangerous and really
deadly insect has been completely ex-
terminated.