The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-10
The 8utIand 9aily Gluhe
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1877.
THE SICK MALE.
A Very Truthful Picture Of Him when "Un-
der the Weather

NoA h4o WNpsANAs
There are of course innumerabe points
at which the views and the customs of men
and women diverge more or less widely,
but there is probably nothing in which the
difference is more strongly marked than in
their respective methods of bearing small
illness aud indspositiOns. Small ores, be
it is said advsCdly; grave malady has or
dinariy so prostia,ing an effect that 1t is
undergone with an almost apatheHc pa
ticuco born of its very severity. But with
smaller ailments the case is different; and
it is in their manner of bearing them that
men so often raise a plying smile on the
Countcnance of their less robust but more
long-sulfcring womankind. 1t never seems
TO occur to an ordinary lord OF creation that
it is within the bounds of possibility that
one of the minor ills to which flesh is heir
should touch him, and he is as astouishcd
and az aggreved when he finds himself suf-
ferlng from headache or fit of influenza
as il the mllady were a perfectly abnormal
occurrence. This is the more remarkable
as, almost invariably. he scOils and laughs
to sCorn any precautionary m surcs de
Clines to change wet shooting boots as be-
ing "Of no consequence and pCrsistcntly
sits in drAught because he is Overheated.
Bat when the heavy cold comes he is all
amazcment, cannot conceive how he caught
1t, and regards himself as victim grey
ously III treated by fate and deserving OF
all possible sympathy and compassion. As
"a iule woman IS abundanlly pltrul and
| sympathetic; but 1t must require immense
| command over her rIsible muscles to re-
press smile when her lord gravcly assures
her that no one was ever so Ill before, ana
that she cannot nave the ialntest conception
u II. a a.
OF what he is enduring. she thinks OF the
many colds from which she has suffered
and Tor which he has always Condemned
! her tor "coddhng, assuring htr mat "A
| fuss about" Ard Nc, what was her fuss.
,nr 10 his? Besid s feeling in. She is al
wavs wiling to try such remedic, as cxpe-
ricnce has taupht her are most c1lcacious.
while bo can m, prrsi.4dcl tp try nothinp.
,hou0h he comrlsins sorcly that no one
dnes ANYTHING far him or anpcars To com
nassion9tp his evil case
II ia hardly q hannv time for those
brouoLt n,nch in contact with him. If he
suffers from a headache. tho whole ma
p. innrv of the bouse must be stonped. not
a door oust crpall not a football be heard,
thourh he is the last pcrsrn in the world tC
resnect tbe beadache of others. and ALWAYS
nrnt ,ssca his hrlief that thew aie only an.
other name for caprice or convenience. AT
tho smallest advancement of hIs usual ro.
hnst brol,h from whatever cause IT may
arise lac nj once believes himsrlf TO be eX.
tremolv. if NOT dangerouslv i'll. and vet.
With - strange nerversitv. absolu. civ refuses
to ace a dociur. HIS feminine belongings
if tbc,. ore wise. commiserate and make
much nr him but are never in the slirht.
nsl dc,r.o ,,Iprmpd So lone as he rrumhle,
and tey,ils hims4lf. when he becomes ei
lent as IN his suiTcrinps they mt once con
clude that sometime serious is really III,
matter
Perhans the most d0leful spectacle tina
still 1t has been endured at different times
by almost every one. tits edifying to not
that though, when any one else has beeI
attacked with the same torment, he ha'
recommended instant recourse to dentist
and has derided any hackwardness in fol
lowing his advice as cowardlce, he Is, wher
his own time comes, no more eager to plan
himself in the chair of doom than were hi
despised friends, and is fertile in invcnunG
cXpedents for putting off the evil day
probably, If the PAIN abates, to n remote
date. n woman must be very near, in
deed, akin, TO an angel who, after her hus
band or some other near male relative ha
for years laughed TO scorn her complaint
of sgoniZng neuralgia, telling her that i
''is all fancy ''only nerves" could it b
anything wo'scD that she would nove
have is II she did not think about il, or i
she took moIe exercise, or if she did some
something or other totally out of her powe
to do-dCc5 not, sorry as she may be tha
he should suffer, feel certain satisfaction