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Our town and civic duty

Chapter 126: HOW TO MAKE A MOSQUITO TRAP
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About This Book

A school reader for elementary pupils offers short stories, adapted tales, and practical lessons that introduce civic virtues such as courage, self-control, thrift, perseverance, kindness to animals, and patriotism. It then profiles public servants—police, mail carriers, firemen, street cleaners, and sanitation workers—to illustrate dependence, interdependence, and community cooperation. Subsequent sections address personal and public safety, sanitation, and insect control, and conclude with guidance on Junior Red Cross activities and patriotic service. Teacher notes recommend dramatization, discussion, and hands-on projects to connect classroom learning with daily civic habits and to encourage respect for public institutions and duties.

HOW TO MAKE A MOSQUITO TRAP


Mosquito
Trap

Mosquitoes generally settle on the ceiling above reach. If one climbs up and kills them it soils the paper or plaster. A simple trap can be made with which you can destroy them without defacing the ceiling.

Materials needed: the shallow cover of a tin can about five inches in diameter. A broomstick about four feet long.

Nail the cover through the center to the broomstick.

To use: Pour a little kerosene oil into the cover. Raise it gently under the mosquito and press it against the ceiling.

The mosquito will try to fly away and will fall into the oil. The kerosene fumes will fill its “breathers,” and it will be suffocated.

QUESTIONS

How does the fighting of mosquitoes and flies help make a clean city?

How does it mean safety-first?

Do you think that all good citizens should take part in such fighting? Why?

Why would you prefer to live in a city which does such fighting than in one which pays no heed to flies and mosquitoes?

Should everyone value the good health of everyone else? Why?



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QUESTIONS

Why is good health your most valuable possession?

Why is your good health valuable to your country?

How does your caring for your health show your love for your flag?

Why does the good American try to gain and keep perfect health?

Name some of the things which you should do every day in order to keep well.