ed and vigorously brushed. Any larvae
which are not dislodged in this way should be destroyed. It is a bad
plan to keep odds and ends of woolen or other materials in attics where
these pests can breed and thus spread to more valuable articles.

Spraying with benzine two or three times during hot weather is a good
way of preventing injury to furniture or carriage upholstery and other
articles which are in storage or not in use for a long time. If you are
certain that woolens and furs are free from the pests they may be stored
in safety by placing them in tight paste board boxes and sealing the
covers firmly with gummed paper.

Both moths and carpet beetles are harmless at a temperature of 40
degrees Fahrenheit--a fact very well known to advantage by the large fur
storage companies. They cannot survive furthermore a temperature of 120
decrees if subjected to it for about twenty minutes.

What Physicians are Doing.--It is desirable that the ordinary
non-medical individual should know what the science of medicine is doing
and what it is accomplishing.

During the past fifteen years the art of curing and preventing disease
has taken on giant strides. The man or woman most ready to question the
accomplishments and the ability of the humble family physician or the
motive of the science of medicine, is the one who appreciates least that
it is due to the skill and intelligence of the medical men of to-day
that he owes his comfort, his health, and his freedom from pestilence,
plague and disease. Unthinking people laud and praise some upstart whose
ability lies in his faculty to fool the gullible, or they will rush to
seek the false aid of some nondescript science, because it is popular
and well advertised, while they pass by or ignore the men whose labors
have made the world what it is, and who alone possess the ability to
intelligently wage the battle in the interest of humanity against
disease.

The medical profession has repeatedly pointed out that there are, on an
average, six hundred thousand lives lost every year in the United States
from preventable disease and accidents. Six hundred thousand lives which
medical science has at hand the remedy to save, but which the medical
profession sacrificed because of inadequate legislation. Few people can
comprehend just what six hundred thousand lives mean. Let us put it in
another way. There are destroyed by preventable disease and accidents
every day American lives equal in nu