Evening star., 1925-08-27

A tiger recently ca ptured in Africa
! and carried to Paris broke bounds in
| the city and escaped to the Bois de
Boulogne. 1t created a panic in the
park and thousands of people fed.
After hunt by hundreds of men. the
| tiger was shot.
A writer who visited India reported
| that for every victim slain there by
/ tigers and other great beasts thou
sands have been killed by Mosquitoes.
The daughter of one of the scientists
! who were with Gen. Gorgas in fight
| ing pests at Panama while digging the
Canal was cautioned by her scientific
| father as follows:
My child, If you should see a tiger
in the woods. you had better return
\ home promptly, but If you ever see
| one Of the deadly mosquitoes, run as
| fast as you can and shut up all the
screens tight. Don't ever let a mos
quito get you"
! Last week a great swarm of mos
quitoes from New Jersey invaded
| New York. There they attacked the
| City Hall, where the Office holders and
other redoubtable fighters most do
| congregate, and the attack was so
overwhelming that the defenders were
| routed and put into as great a panic
as were the Parisians who fled from
| the Bois de Boulogne tiger. The
| ferocious mosquitoes took possession
of the City Hall, and 1t was with diff
| ficulty that they were dispossessed the
next day. The invaders were a thou
sand times more terrifying than the
| Tammany Tiger would have been, for
| New Workers are accustomed to twist
| the tail of that beast.
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| DR.. Howard. chief entomologist of
the Department of Agriculture, says
that he does not fear mosquitoes in
| his own home enough to provide
screens to keep them out, for, he says,
| if anybody is troubled in Washington
| with mosquitoes it is his own fault.
Every householder can destroy all
mosquitoes in his own neighborhood.
| He expresses amaZement that three
years ago the manufacturers of wire
| screens confessed that they had sold.
! in rolls. screening to the amount of
! $50 ZOO. 900. DIR. Howard thinks it
| would be cheaper to attack the mos.
quitoes at their source.
For example, New Jersey, growing
| tired of the antique jokes about her
| monster mosquitoes, began appropriate
! ing from 100000 to 100000 year,
in cooperation with local communities
or townships appropriating a proper
!
| fighting the pests. AS result of that
work the taxable valuation of real es-
tate has increased many times the an
nual appropriation. The same might
| be done in all the coast States.
The statement that each household
| er can clear his own environment of
mosquitoes does not apply to the Jer-
| sey swamp variety, but to the locally
prevalent kinds, which breed in the
cutters of roofs, where water stands,
or in dead leaves in the roof cutters,
or in any stagnant water, such as bird
fountains, basins for watering poultry
or dogs, or in even bits of broken bot
ties which catch a little water. Such
mosquitoes breed by the hundreds.
daily, in a pint of stagnant water. and
! they never fly more than 100 yards
| from their breeding place. A cup Of
| water indoors may become hotbed
| of mosquitoes, even though it be hid in
a closet or cellar. A vase for flowers
! holding water may be pesthole for
mosquitoes.
Where there is no standing water
| certain varieties of mosquitoes de-
| post their eggs in hollow spots in
| the dry ground, trusting to the SHOWS
| of the following Winter to fill the
holes. and then in Spring to melt and
' supply the proper breeding ground