Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-01
LEAF TAKEN FROM FLY'S DIARY
HOW DISEASE GERMS ARE SPREAD
Wakes Up at a. in Stable-Visits Homes and Kitchens
-Bathes IN MLk-Wipes Feet Buttered Bread
EDadeS Human "SUatterS"

b a. m.-Have just come out from
sort of trance during which much
must have happened. / have no mem
ory of my past. Perhaps it is best so.
] am told that / was once one of
these white crawling creatures called
maggots, of which thousands are all
about me. l refuse to believe it.
L feel strangely weak.
BIO a. m.-Stronger now and my
legs feel more as if they really be-
longed to me. Have queer, gauzy
things on my shoulders; they seem
to be of no use. 1t is very dark.
close and warm here. l believe that
the place is called a manure pit, and
am told that l was born here. Keep
thinking of these maggot creatures.
strange how bothersome ones origin
may be.
FcnrS NaggOt Legend is True
40 a. m.-Have crawled all over
the pit and exploited every part.
Made some acquaintances among
young flies like myself. Also have
a speaking acquaintance with few
old ties who have come here to lay
eggs. Fear that maggot legend is
true. | blush for my youth. The
top of this place is being opened.
l wonder what it means.
5.i5 a m.--Out in the world at last!
The pit and the maggots are but a
memory. The queer things on my
shoulders are wings and lifted me
out of the pit. Am now resting on a
stable window. Feel light headed and
hungry. Life is very interestingly
one can forget ones origin.
6 n. m.-The most enhancing odors
come apparently from a can outside
the back door of a provision shop just
across the alley from my stable 1
must investigate.
Big Time in Garbage Can
$50 a. nj was right about the
can. Have spent the last half hour
there in company with a thousand or
more of my own kind simply gorging
fish offal. delicious bits of rotting
meat and decayed fruit and vege-
tables! We fairly wallowed in it.
What misfortune if some one should
forget and put the cover on the can.
us a. Nam inside the provision
shop. No end of fun! Already know
the juciest, tenderest cuts of meat
Have sampled cheese, cookies. cakes
and berries. Always walk over and
examine thing thoroughly before
eating; it pays.
a. m.-Have the wanderlust. Must
see more of the world. Nothing else
would tempt me to leave the provi-
sion shop. Only drawback is per-
sistent annoyance by huge two-leg-
ged creatures who are forever slap
ping at us. Harmless, but bother
some.
$50 a. m.-From sheer curiosity
stopped in a barroom. Rather dis
gusting. Explored a cuspidor and
then sampled the free lunch. Prefer
the can back of the provision shop.
Climbs up Swattcr's Nose.
S.45 a. m.-Such narrow escape!
Slipped into an interesting looking
creatures lay in bed and others stood
around Explored everything in the
room and crawled over the nose and
mouth of the creature in bed, which
seemed helpless. Then one of the
others got after me and 1 just es-
capped with my life. AS I was leav-
ing heard them say something about
typhoid.
$50 a. m.-Queerest tickling on my
leggs and feet! Wonder if it can be
anything to do with that typhoid.
S.51 a. Undiscovered a thousand
tiny creatures clinging to the hair of
my legs and feet. Have swallowed
lot of them whole. but can't seem
to get rid of the rest. Understand
they're called germs. Must have
something to do with that typhoid.
Washes Feet in Pan of Milk
$3.50 a. MAT last l am rid of most
of those annoying germ creatures.
Washed them off in a pan of milk.