“Try my glasses,” coaxed a kind old lady, when her young friend broke her own bone rims. And she did. But she was far from happy--in fact, quite miserable; and her eyes took a long time to recover from the ravages of the ill-fitting glasses. Naturally nobody should use glasses made for another. Glasses that have been more than carefully fitted to the individual’s eye are none too good if comfort and eye ease are desired. So it is with the installation of screens. It may sound queer to compare eye-glasses and screens, but nevertheless the analogy is nearly perfect. As the eyes vary, so do the apertures of the various homes. Therefore, unless screens are fitted carefully to each window, door or porch there will be discrepancies, and if one fly or insect can get in others can and there will be not only discomfort but probably disease distribution. Swat the fly? No! Don’t give yourself a chance to swat it. Keep it out! Therefore if you have a house to screen do it the best way you can or the money spent will be a dead loss. They must be bug-tight even as a ship is water tight; unless they are, you will be the host at continual insect balls and chairman of the rust convention and store up for yourself an irritability unprecedented. For there is no more annoying thing in the home than recalcitrant or obstinate screens. It is strange that any missionary work need be done about screens because almost every one agrees upon their uses in health prevention and comfort assurance, yet withal the purchasing of them is done ignorantly and as carelessly as the young woman who uses anybody’s glasses for her own particular and peculiar eyes. To begin with, do not order screens to be made “right away”; they cannot be done in less than a thirty-day month and be made with any finish. Order early enough after you have received estimates from the best screen makers; then take the estimate which gives you the best value after you have either seen the models, actual installations, or are satisfied that you will get the thing that you need for your particular case. The skilful screen men treat your case as individually as the oculist treats your eyes. Your screens should be: 1. Simple to manipulate, should pull up, lower, raise or thrust out, easily and happily, and should be simply removed for storage if necessary and uncomplicatedly re-applied. 2. All the hardware should be inseparable from the body of the screen--that is: catches, bolts, locks, etc. 3. All the metal work should be rustless and adapted to the region in which you live. 4. Frames must be rigid and wire cloth taut, well fastened at every point in the frame, not sag, and be rigid. 5. Wooden frame screens must be of kiln-dried, seasoned wood, and when expedient, of hard wood. 6. Renewal of wire cloth must be a simple matter without an armory of fancy tools. 7. All should be neat, attractive, matching the window, door or porch trim where they are placed.