Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-01-25

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gone vito an alTnost spafhetie apasience
born OF its very severity Bot with
smaller ailments the case 10 adii iierent:
ana lt rs IN their inafirier OF beating them
that men so often raise pitring smile
on the coun&enances OF their less ro-
bust but more long-suffering woman
tind. IL never seems 70 occar to an
ordinary lord OF creation thatit is with
in bound Of possibility that one Of the
minor ills to which flesh is heir should
touch him, and he is astonished aud as
sggrieyed when he finds himself suffer-
ing from q headace or ct of influenza
as If the malady were perfectly ab-
ncrmsioccur,ence. Thisisthe more re-
markable as, almost invariably, he SCOTS
at and laughs TO scorn any precautionary
measures-deciinest 20 chang gswet shoot
ing-boo.s as being 'sof no consequence"
and presistently Sits in draught be-
cause he is oyer-heated. But when the
heavy cold comes be IS all amazement,
cannot conceive how he caught it, and
regards himself as a victim grie vously
ilitreated by fate and deserving of all pos
sIole sympathy and compassion. As a
rule, woman is abundantly pitiful and
sympathetic; but il must require i'm
mense command over her risible mus
cies to repress a smile when her
lord graveiyl assures her that no one
was ever SO i'll before, and that she can
not have the faintest conception of what
he is enduring. She thinks of many
colds from which she has suffered and
for winch be has always condemned
her for ''codGlins," assuring her that
cold was .'a mere trife. nothing 10 make
fuss about" And vet what was her
fussing to his Besides, feeling i'll, she
is always willing TO try such remedies
as experience has taught her are most
etiicacious, while he can be pursuaded
ito try nothing. though he complaias
soreiy that no one does anything for
him or appears 10 compassionate his
evil case. - eIlal a. =.
I II is hardly q happy time for those
brought much in contact with him. II
be suffers from headache, the whole
machinery tthe house must be stopped,
not a'door must creak nor football be
heard, thought be is the last person in
the world 20 respect the headaches of
others, and always Processes his belief
that they are only another name for
caPrice or convenience. At the small
lest arrangement CT his usual robust
health, from whatever cause il NAV
arise, ne at once believes himself to be
extremely, if not dangerously, i'll; and
yet, with a strange perversity absolute
l3 refuses TO see doctor. His temi-
nine belonging, If they are wise, com
miserate and make much of him but are
never in the slightest degree alarmed
SO long as he grumbles and hewaiis
himself: when he becomes silent as 10
has sufierings they at once conclude
that something serious is really the mat
ter. 3~.
Perhaps the most dcleful spectacle
that can he presented 20 the imacina-
-tion Is that of man afflicted with the
tooihache. 1t certainly is most wear
.ng and distressing pain; still, it has
been endured at different times by al
most every one Ii is ediiying to note
that though. when any one else has
been attacked with the same torment.
he mas recommended instant recourse
10 dentist, aad has derided anv back
wardness in. following his advice as
cowardice, he is, when his own time
comes, no more eager 10 plant him
self in the chair OF doom than were
his despised friends, and Is fertile in
inventng exredients for putting of The
evil day, probably, if the pain abates
10 a remote date. A woman must he
very near. indeed, akin TO an angel who
after her husband or some other near
male relative has Tor wears laughed 10
scorn her complaints OF agcnizing neu-
rsIgia-teIlins her chat il "is all fancy
SONY nerves, tcould be snvthins
worse y that she would never have il
II she did not think about it, or if she
tool, more exercise, or ii she did some