Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-09-22
Hay Fever.


corner of his eyes with sweet, sad smile.
Burlington HGlCk Eye.
Hay Fever.
Ed. Rumley, of the Gilman Qll.) Star,
has had the ebay fever," and thus pleas
antly tells what he '.nose7 about it:
/ sought all the professionals who have
DIR" before and those who have M. D. =
after their names. They avoided me, and
when cornered them so there was no es-
cape, their prescription was, $50 up to
| Wisconsin" could have gone to Texas
just as easy; in fact, easier, as l had a
pass to the Lone Star State in my pocket.
Not having strong desire to go to either
place, wrote to a Chicago physician who
has DR.. before and NJ. D. behind his namej
for a prescription, promising him all the
filthy luere | possessed, and long and ex-
tended pufs in my % cent column, if he
could find a panaeea. further pictured
to him the colossal fortune that would re-
suit from his professional labOrs. You will
forgive me when say that got my back
up at his answer: ''What is Hay FeverY
There is an old saying, ''If you wish to
succeed, follow your nose, and, after scat
tering his autograph to the winds, / de-
voted all my time to that useful MEMBER
and very necessary article in hay fever.
a person who has had the hay fever can
recall the first symptoms, dating pack sew
eral years. The first year it is quite mild.
About the 25th of August Won will find a
spot between your shoulder blades. It
might have been there before, but Won new
er knew of it before, and now YOU have
only an itching knowledge of its length and
breadth. If you stand out in the sun for a
while, you VIII seek the nearest llssnp-post,
and, like a hog, scratch-proyiding you
can get the post to fit the spot. You go
home to study what is the matter with
you. You are in perspiratiJn, either from
wonder or anxiety about it, when draft
ofair strikes you, and then you have no
time for wonder or anxiety, and scarcely
time to sneeze; that is, the time elapsing
between successive sneezes is so short that
you can hardly distinguish one from the
other. A party standing by you would call
a dozen sneeZes one.
You try to study the cause of the panic;
but the run on your nose is so great that it
keeps you busy paying out.
About the middle of some fine summer
day, violent Sneeze will announce to you
the approach of the 10th of August. You
are reminded that you had something Just
like it before. You will sneeze occasional
ly until two or three o'clock, when you re-
joice that you are over it; but the next day
it comes on you again more violently. Then
you measure the spot in your back with the
door-post. The next day you are sneezing
again in such rapid succession that you
have not time to fill your lungs. Your
teeth come together with crash; but you
don't mind that unless your tongue should
be in the way; then you know all about it.
As the month advances your hay fever in
creases, and at times you feel like getting
mad; and YOU would if you had time
About the first of September another trou-
BILE presents istself. Your eyes know a
weakness that they never knew before.
Whether for the purpose of relieving the
pent up passions, or from sympathy, they
send forth flood of tears No dry tears,
nor cool tears; but burning tears. You
feel mad enough and bad enough to cry;
but these tears are constantly pouring
down your troubled cheeks. Another per-
plexity now comes on; your handkerchiefS
have given out. Your partner for life in
forms YOU that nineteen new ones and a
swad of old ones are in the wash. Between
sneezing and crying you write an order on
your merchant for two dozen handker-
chiefs; also a note to your washer-woman
to hurry up the washing. As soon as you
have got this off your hands a new difficult
ty comes to your relief-a terrible itching
about the eyelids. You rub them with all
your might. 1t produces an. excruciatlng, g,
yet pleasing sensation, if such can be. You
rub and rub, and though You have desire
to desist, you still rub on until your eye
lids will no longer wink. In the morning
your eyes are glued together; no paste, no
| cement, nor Spauldings glue-nO, nor Je-
NINA plaster-could stick them together
faster. And thus you spend the next ten
days. You pray for night and bless God
for morning. You scratch iy5Gr back, blow
| YOUR nose and sneeze. Then you will sneeZe.
then grasp Your handkerchief, gasp fol
breath, grasp your nose, and sneeze. Then
you will rub your eyes and sneeze, rut
| your back and sneeze, rub your nose ano
sneeze; then scratch your back, rub yoUl
eyes, blow you nose, and sneeze slmultane
ously. You become enraged, and with q
pocket handkerchief in each hand and one
in each pocket, start for the druggist or
/ ask for the latest and most reliable hay te
yer remedies. The druggist looks smiling
and puts up market basket full OF stun
ana, dIGer DuYlilS dHOIIl6IE uOHSn Aethu4NOh
| chiefs, YOU start home. You smoke sirl
monium, cubebs and dandelion; inhale car
bolic acid, iodine, ammonia, camphor;-
douehe your nostrils with quinine, iron
ETC., etc., ETC., ETC.; and get no relief. Yol
still rnb your back, blow your nose, wiP'
YOUR ewes and sueeze. You hear of neigh
! Dor who has it. You take dozen hand
kerchiefs and start to see him. You tel
him of all the remedies you have tired an'
l. he does the same. You sit and talk an'
sneeze: then rub and scratch and blow
and sneeze; and so you 90 on until Octo
Der 1, when you gradually cease your Ia
bors. and in few days you would. no
know that YOU had ever had the hay feyer
Z were IT not for the washer-womans and tn
druggists bills.
It IS not difficult for person who ha
had the disease to recognize the hrst symp
toms in others, and it would be safe to sa,
that one in every twenty persons whom
met in the latter part of August was trou
bled with ''cold in the head, " which,
reality, was the first symptom Of hay fever
as any one who ''has been there" can read
lily discover.