Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-09
Sickness In The Cars.

Many percons, especially ladies, are
great sufferers from that form of nausea
and headache known as ''car sickness"
A journey by rail has for them all the
discomfort and suffering that an ocean
voyage has to d majority of travellers.
The effect of the motion of the car ranges
from mild disturbance of the stomach
and an accompanying headache, to
"deathly sickness, with intense nausea
and complete prostration, according to
the condition and sensitiveness of the
victim. In the lightest form the sensa
ton is sufficiently unpleasant to make
travel by rail thoroughly disagreeable;
IN Its worst, and by no means uncommon
type, it invests this convenient m sthod
of journeying with dread and despair.
A simple and harmless preventative of
car sickness has recently come to the
knowledge of the writer, under circum-
stances that leave no doubt of it's effiacacy
with some persons; and If the device
will work equally we'll in other cases,
knowledge of it certainly ought to be
spread abroad. It is at least worth
trial by all who suffer inconvenience in
travelling. A lady who had occasion to
take short trip on the Lowell road
and she never travels by rail for pleasure
was, as is usual with her, as thorough
ly sick as ever landsman is on the
chewing deep" by the time she had rid
den dozen miles, The conductor Of
the palace car, who was apparently very
familiar with such cases, told the suffer-
er's companion that sheet of writing
paper worn next to the person, directly
over the chest, was a sure preventative
OF the trouble in nine cases out of ten.
He had recommended it to hundreds of
travellers, and rarely knewit to fail. The
prescription seemed very much like a
"charm"-a horse chestnut carried in
the pocket to ward off rheumatism, or
red string around the neck to prevent
bleeding at the nose. But it was simple
and at least could do no harm. For the
return trip, sheet of common writing
note paper was fastened inside the
clothing, as directed. Result-a per-
fectly comfortable journey, without
hint Of the old Sickness that had for
years made travel by rail a terror. It
was so like superstition, Or happy
accident, however, that the lady would
not accept it as real until subjected to
more severe test. This came in day
journey to New York, and that hardest
trip OF all-anight in an alleged" sleep
ing Car. Both were taken in triumph.
The "charm" worked and the lady
writes:
'The day journey was a perpetual
wonder and delight to me. I could sit
up and read, and look at the landscape
through which we whirled, and act as
other people do. And still I didn't feel
ready to confess to cure until I had
tried the sleeping car, which has always
been horror tome. But even here the
''spell'' worked. I ate hearty supper
in the dining Garland kept it! Slept
soundly all night, got up as comfortable,
and dressed with as level a head and as
steady hand as though [ had been in
my own room. Read until breakfast
time-a thing I had never before done
on the cars-and [ was hungry for my
morning meal. It is really wonderful,
almost too good to bereal. For the first
time in my life l experienced the pleas
ure of travelling. L wish that conductor
to be specially thanked. I would call
1He Lulu 3 Par tlCuldf aGGcutlOu 10 HIS
case, and don't want any mistake and
have the blessing descend on the wrong
man. If this should meet the eve of the
official in question, will he please con-
slider himself thanked?"
To the scientifc-guesser is left the ex-
PLANTATION of this peculiar potency of a
sheet of paper. And, as a futher posi-
BILE contribution to the welfare of squalm-
ish travellers, it is suggested whether the
charm would not work equally well in
preventing seasickness. Theexperiment
is certainly worth trying.