Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1916, Page 12

Swat the Fly and Save the Child By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D.| can enormously diminish the pestilent | swarms of July and August and save, not our crop of clover seed, but our crop of children. For, though the fly |is a fearful nuisance and a menace to grownups, the more we find out about him and his ways the more clearly it stands out that he is the special foe of babies, the real slaughterer of inno- cents. The “best laid plans o' mice and | men” may run curiously parallel. Ii we attack flies in the spring as they do bumble bees we may reap an even richer crop—of babies’ lives—instead of honey. ; 4 This curious connection beltween’; not “pigs” but mice, “in clover, . 2 Ao Tint gave rise to the one famous humorous The so»hu‘ll_cd tI::‘:in;t}Tg::lv;'u);h:n flight of Darwin’s great intellect. He | nmer, tha ’S-f i ¢ 4 # l' once gravely assured a group of the first year of life, depends "‘.°I’ ladies that the crop of clover in a heavily upon "”;’ fac!fiorls dd"((y ""13" district depended upon the number :.h:Ch “h% fl&?? ‘:c"e c:fl{’: boorn’enabe of old maids in tlie neighborhood! fl::sy' and. digease g y They laughed and declared he was M X Iryigg to make fun of them, but he For instance, Dr. D;'::M Arm roceeded to explain, with a twinkle f’"orig of the ‘\':hw g‘"d.‘. 5:0‘7“";?1: in the corner of his eye, that bumble | 19T 1mproving 3 on! ‘l ion o | 4 bees were the only ‘insects which Poor, has repeated on a “85; scale 3 could fertilize red clover blossoms; the interesting experiment 3 c:re- that the principal enemies of the bum- fully screening, cleaning up and other- ble bees were the field mice; that the | Wis€ protecting from flies certain ten- greatest enemies of the field mice | €ment blocks and districts in various were prowling cats, and that the chief e]‘lil']’ féa§2°«fi':ysg':;'r?fingmafifim::{: pfirons.dandsup 0";):5 t()b:::f Rere ifying result of reducing the number g ma; . d fi)‘.whi:h was of deaths and the amount of sickness d:mg:;!:?cdul ' among the children of the screened ! block to less than one-half that of This fable teaches us that we may | g play the part of the devouring and the average of the ward or district : o8 S | which surrounded them. destroying mice and by skirmishing il through cellar and attic and closet It seemed too good to be true when this great reduction was first reported and round all the back porches and | killing every single ‘fiy that we c:xmf :!‘:Evcyst:;,sa(“if'w!la‘: r:gcmsccrc:n;loi:‘e:if find at this time of year—most o . which will be fertilized females—we | ¢nE: FeE Further south, where flies are usu- RIS ally considered a natural and inev- Marie Antoinette itable feature of the summer climate, —— Dr. Ernest Levey, the able and pro- Broadway, 66th and 67th Sts. | gressive health officer of Richmond, Va., after making considerable re- ductions in the death rate from sum- mer sickness among infants and chil- dren by strict milk inspection, good sewerage and free ice, secured the NEW YORK CITY, SITUATED in the most con- venient location in town. 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Original designs in ex- treme large tongue colonials wlllh h:u‘olv:‘b - , and tru| nd-made plain pum; -—-R’.du«‘ from $7, ;l “ to $5.88. THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 15, ot "‘!;:-b,,' = 1916. By - Nell Brinkley Copyright, 19186, International News Seryice. SH E swims sensibly in a one-garment that is not likelyto choke her to death by floating up around her face, or to drag her down to lie with the fishes and coral on the sunless, soundless ocean floor. If a man wore stockings ONCE in swimming he would be delighted to herald all girls to go without them—and give her mot too long o glance. —NELL BRINKLEY. o Wonders of the Mirage By GARRETT P. SERVISS. “Can anything that happens on earth flected in the sky? My grandfather a story of a battle fought between Germany and France about fifty years ago, scen in the sky in Poland at the same time, Is this fiction or fact? It may be partly fact and partly imagination. If I knew all the de- 'tails I might be able to tell you how much of the story could be scienti- fically explained and how much should be set down to vivid fancy. 1t is possible that what your grand- father, or his informants, saw was a mirage, one of the most wonderful of natural phenomena. A mirage is an apparition in the atmosphere arising from an extraordinary refraction (bending) of rays of light by the air. The refracting\ power of air varies with its density, and in some/ cases it causes objects lying behind and below the horizon to appear as if they were suspended in the sky above the horizon, and when, as occasion- ally happens, a magnifying effect is produced the objects even appear to be nearer than the horizon. If you look through a pane of glass full of veins and inequalities you will see what surprising effects irregular refraction of light is capable of producing. Although I recall no case in which the scenes of a battle have been pictur‘?l in the sky, yet such a thing mnAght, theoretically, happen. But it"is practically impos- sible that it should occur when the distance between the observer and the actual scene is so great as the 500 miles~separating the western border of Poland from the nearest point in France where any battle was fought in the war of 1870. The greaatest distance involved in any authenticated account of a mir- age with which I am acquainted was fifty miles. This mirage was seen on the coast of Surrey, England, on the afternoon of July, 26, 1798, the chief observer being Mr. Latham, a fellow of the Royal Society. From Hastings he plainly saw the cliffs on the shore of France, fifty miles away in an air-line, and in or- dinary circumstances totally invisible on account of the rotundity of the earth. In fact, at a distance of fifty miles the surface of the globe rounds off or falls below the level of the observer's eye more than 1,600 feet. Yet on this occasion not only was the French coast lifted up into view by refraction, but there was also, apparently, a magnifying effect, since it seemed to be only a few miles away. Some sailors who were with Mr. Latham poited out to him the de- tails of the French coast which were familiar to them from their visits to it, and with a telescope French fishing boats could be seen at an- chor, while the buildings on the shore and the colors of the vegeta- tion were plainly discerned. These appearances continued for nearly an hour, the clffs sometimes appearing brighter and nearer, and at other times fainter and more re- mote. In another authenticated instance troops of cavalry exercising on the farther side of a hill range were seen as if they were on the hither side of the hill. In this case the actual difference between the obser- vers and the objects was about a dozen miles. On yet another oc- casion. Prqtf). Vince of Cam- bridge saw Dover Castle apparently lifted over a hill, which conceals it from the point of view where his obsecyation was made, and projected against the side of the hill facing him. These wonderful appearances can all be explained by the effects of ir- regular atmospheric refraction. But, now let us take the case of the ap- parition in Poland, supposing the story to be based upon a mirage. While at a distance of fifty miles the depression below the level of the true horizon is only about 1,600 feet, at a distance of 500 miles it is a hundred times as great, or about 30 miles, the depression varying as the square of the distance. It is not conceivable that in so vast an extent of air as would be involved in this case the effects of refraction could produce a mirage Long, full sleeves have deep gaunt- Tet cuffs of linen. Tailored suits of white pique are among the new things. New bathing suits are made of gay figured materials, Victorian sprigged muslins are re- vived for the summer girl's holiday frock, The new ribbed edges on warp- print ribbons are known as “candled edges.” Rather short coats of blue serge, with white collars, are~worn with white dresses. Long, full sleeves of sheer material are often gathered in at the wrist by a ribbon tied in a bow. Flowers, fruit, animals and land- scapes are now painted by hand on hats, stockings and gowns, An overskirt of taffeta looped up Tixs on Summer Fashions over a cream lace underskirt is quaint and becoming. Cape effects on some of the new summer blouses show deep hem- stitched borders. * Some of the most fashionable sum- mer blouses are embellished by high stock ties of black taffeta. Never before have ribbons been so much used. They are scen on nearly every garment. ~ - i A frock made of white material | dotted with blue spots and trimmed with blue ribbon is ideal for a sum- mer afternoon. A rose fastened to each end of the girdle makes an unusual finish and | adds sufficient weight and the neces- | sary touch of color. Silver rings with designs of pea- cocks, their tails studded with jewels, are among the most interesting of recent jewelry modes. Gat the Round Package Used fo¢ % Century. values in beautiful short vam) 3 extreme Fren Orde Punmfl.. Send for our"prin style folder. On Sixteenth at Farnam. HORLICK'S MALTED MlLK A hot before Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price Take a Paokane Homea HORLICK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Made from clean, rich milk with the ex. tract of select malted grain, malted in our Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. AL S D N N > ST S Sy 2 By CONSTANCE CLARKE. “These are delicious sweet cakes to | whole raw eggs, and work again for sérve for afternoon tea or with cosoa | $ix to eight minutes, then for luncheon. : have been - shredded and sistency, add the finely chopped peel [pans with warm butter, and of a lemon, 2 ! vanilla essence, six ounces of sugar,tpour in the mixture and bal and work together for eight to ten moderate oven. minutes; t‘he:;1 add b, :eg‘rees bslx A gty pi ounces - of flour which has Dbeen|sery . passed through a sieve, and three( (7uesday—Planked Flounders.) mix in three ounces of dried cherries that 3 ha three Put seven ounces of butter in & Iounces of almonds blanched, skinned bowl and beat it to a-creamy con-|and shredded. Brush over little c}alke then six or eight drops of | paper them with buttered pafler'and e in a bringing into view objects 500 miles away and sunk 30 miles below the horizon. What may have happened was a mirage, similar to that above men- tioned, in which troops moving be- hind some hill or elevation of the ground were brought into view, ap- pearing, in this case, not against the intervening elevation, but above it in the sky. Many effects of this kind are on record. At this time of which your grand- father speaks, all Germany was astir with military movements, and if the point of observation was situated near the German frontier we have the proper setting for a possible mirage of the kind described. Naturally the «bservers, having their minds full of the war, and seeing the appari- tion above the western horizon, would imagine that they were view- ing a battle in France, miraculously reflected in the sky, and the more so if clouds of dust or smoke from ac- tual firing enveloped the aerial spec- tacle. Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax Try to Forget Him. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am an orphan, 19, and keep house for my brothers. I've been going about with a young man slx years my senlor for a year. He proposed to me, but under the circumstances our marriage could not take place, as he is the main support of the family. He asked me to_elope, which I refused to do, whereupon he ceased calling, I've tried to communicate with him, but he won't listen to me and I simply can't get him out of my mind. BETTY. I'm afrald, my dear girl, you will have to put all thoughts of this man out of your mind. Since he feels it- is his first duty to support his family, an elopement ending In & marriage would have been most unfair to his people. It would have besn just as practical from that point of view for you to marry at home, Bince he has refused to see you because of your refusal to g0 away with Mm he has shown & tyras nical desire to have his own way er put you out of his life. His own way won't doy rally your youth and hopefulness te.. ald and forget him. & ,.\ These also can be uged for denert;‘n the only practical thing is for you te Health Hints -:- Fashions -- Woman’s Work -- Household Topics = | The Day of the Girl & No.2 % P