The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-25
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BY CYNTHIA GREY

Dear Miss Grey: The follow
ing information is taken from
the May bulletin of the West
ern Washington Experiment
station at Puyallup and
hope 1t will help an inquirer
in your paper to rid his place
of fleas.
1.-The fleas lay brown oval
eggs in any manner of filth or
dust in the nest boxes, floor
cracks or other quiet nook. In
cubation requires from six to
twelve days, the result being
worm-like larvae. In about
eleven days the larvae weave
tough brown cocoons and take a
rest OF q couple of weeks. The
adult fleas emerge from tho
cocoon with six legs and an
appetite, and in passing it may
we'll be said that the first sign
OF flea infestation will be no.
ticed by the person in charge
being attacked. Fleas as we'll
as mites are blood-sucking in
sects.
Treatment: Crude carbolic
acid, or full strength of any
we'll known commercial disin-
fectant as zenoleum. applied to
every particle of wood even
suspected Of harboring fleas is
effective. Concentrated I've
Zone bounce can to 3 gallons
OF water) is the cheapest eff
fectual solution used at this
station. Use an old broom or
brush and give especial atten-
tion to cracks scarcely notice
able. hidden joints OF wood
and rough surfaces"
l may add that the source of
the trouble is in the hen house,
as fleas live indefinitely even
IL they have never eaten any
thing. BE sure to clean out the
dirt and rubbish before applying
your disinfectant.
nj MRS. II. J. X.
Thanks for the above infOrma-
lion. I hope none Of the readers
will need it; but I suggest thai
they clip 1t out in case they do.
Dear Miss Grey: Lives there
a man who dare cast a stone at
his wife because of her moral
mistakes before marriage? I
am prompted to ask this ques-
tion after reading your article,
"Will q Man Forgiven" In my
home town a girl who made this
same mistake decided to tell OF
the dark blot in her life" be-
fore she married the other man.
An old lady friend told him the
story, and after thinking it
over, he said: Before God
she is Just as good as 1 am,
why shouldn't l marry herr"
Also / should like to comment
upon another letter which ap-
peared in your columns recently.
1t was relative to the woman
who had to give up her illigiti-
mate child, and who would
now, after 20 years of suffer-
ing, like to find her.
believe l would try to find
my daughter. would want to
be sure she was we'll cared for
and happy. l once knew the
girl in a case of this kind, and
she was just as eager to find
someone, anyone that really be-
longed to her by ties of blood.
MRS. A.
Dear Miss Grey: I am a
man Of steady habits and maxi
ing a good salary. l believe I
am about ready to marry II I
can find the right girl. l want
a good home-loving girl. I
have met a girl who il that
kind, according to what I hear
OF her. She is also q pretty
girl with Just the complexion
/ like. Would 1t do to ask her
at once to marry me, or must I
wait q conventional length of
timer WAITING.
II you would be successful In
Tour suit you win be wise to give
he girl time to decide whether she
likes YOUR traits and YOUR COM
plexioA. Perhaps she, too, has
iccided preferences along certain
incs. Yoa do not sag what your
rolaf30n = to the war. Not many
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