Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-09-19
- From the New York Nercury.l
HOkATlO KAY ENN:
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THE DANGERS OF BEING A
HARD SNEEZER.
BY ". .. EATON.

The Importance Of correcting bad
habits at an early age is undeniable.
Perhaps it was illustrated in the extra.
ordinary case of Horatio Kay Epa,
though it can't be positively stated, as
we cannot know whether the habit
which has afflicted him from childhood
could have been corrected by early at
tention to it's removal.
Horatio was not q ''hard boy" but
he was hard sncezer. We have all
Of us heard some outrageous, outland.
ish, ungovernable sneezcrs in our lives,
and have sometimes attributed their
curious variety Of uncouth explosions
to strange malformations Of the sneez-
ing organs, or a lamentablc lack Of
government over that explosive arpa-
ratus. But few Of us have happened
to know Of man, who, like Horatio
Kay Enn, found his aucezing expcr-
ience to be his one great, ludicrous,
positive and constant affection through
life. Others might snceze and be
laughed at or be pitied; hut they sncez-
edonly aow and then, ,and their odd out
breaks were forgotten.
But Horatio's sncexing faculties
bordercd on the terrible, and were a
regular institution in him. His nose
and 40 forth, from boy up, were ex-
tremely sensitive to the tickling quail
ties Of dust Of any kind; and the slight.
est cold, or q glance at the sun would
set him into sudden series of sneczcs
such as mortal car never heard from
any other person. They shook him off
of his feet: strained him till he ached
and turned purple; set his face into
horrible contortions ; made his eyes
start, bulging from their sockets and
we're 50 harsh and laundering in vol
|umc, and Of such ridiculous tones, that
everybody stared At him, in wonder,
anger, or merriment, and admitted
that he was born to make noise in the
world.
When he was a boy, he used to laugh
when others laughed at his curious
sneezing; but when he got to be =
man, his popularity mortified him and
made both grave and apprehensive.-
He was sensitive, and in Whatever SO.
ciety lie might be, he felt that he knew
not what q sneeze an hour might bring
forth.
Painfully sensible of his startling
characteristic, his efforts in society
were often fearfully heroic to prevent
the-alas-! inevitable explosion. But
it was no use to try. 1t n,ust come
His facial muscles went in:o pictur.
esque convulsions some seconds before
the catastrophe !; and his bodily con.
tortions, in vain efforts to stay the tide,
the cataract Of sound, and his gestures
while in the pains Of that labor to sup
press alarm at his appearace, wer.
pitiable indeed, and often struck be
holders with panic.
To see human being suddenl,
change placid into horriblc.disturb
ed look, trembling through all hi.
frame, bending his body, bowing hi
head, and stretching forth his hands a
If in expectation of some sudden aud
terrible visitation, while his eyes cas-
an appealing glance at all round him
was . scene to excite sympathy, q
least, if it did not cause an ontcry o
alarm from the beholder; and whel
the burst Of thunder came, and the ms,
was not blown to pieces, and the frigh
proved groandless, the appalling den,
onstration often excited the irritabilit
LOT those who disliked to have thei
|eqnanimity disturbed.
As : mother will spank her child VIII
has just frightened her by immincr