Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-15
About Sneezing.

About Sneezing.
Sneezing and the manner in which the
sneeze is sneezed is an interesting study
in itself. No two people sneeze alike.
A two months study Of this spa smodic
practice has fully demonstrated the fact
that there is as much individualityin the
sneeze of the average man or woman as
there is in the laugh, the CONVEX sation,
the walk or the handwriting. Some
men and women sneeze as though the
effort caused them intense pain, while
others seem to enjoy the titillatilg SEN
sation in the nostrils and enter into the
spirit of the act with pleasure depicted
upon every lineament of their features
The little boarding school miss trips
jauntily along the street and in turning
to note if she is attracting due attention
happens to Inadvertently look at the sun.
In moment her nostrils begin to tickle,
and, burying her face In the folds of the
neatest of cambria hankerchiefs, she
contracts her shoulders and gives utter
ance to thedaintiest " skick-skick -skick"
imaginable.
The fat woman with basket upon her
arm-the one you cdh always meet with
in the market house-halts suddenly
upon the street, bows her head rever-
emily, remains SO for few minutes i'll
wild expectation and then, straig atening
up a little, inhales the air until she
swells up like balloon, then "ah-h-h-
choooooo ! ah-h-h-hschoooo ah.ah-ah-
skitch-tschooo! oh my y and wabbles
along wiping her infamed nose on her
apron.
The dapper little clerk walks briskly
along the street wondering if his new
clothes fit him as he hopes they do, and
when the unfailing symptoms tell him
that he must sneeZe he turns his head
over his shoulder, and without Stacking
his pace gives vent to several short,
sharp "woosh "-es, and flies along as if
nothing had happened.
The tall, cadaverous man, whose every
look indicates the presence of consump-
ton, stops short on the sidewalk, ner-
vously runs his hands into half dozen
pockets before he can find his bandker-
chief, throws his head backward until
his nose points at the City Hall clock,
and electrifes all within hearing with a
spasmodic Observation-Disclosures
o-o-o-wi- wi witcho- o-o-o-o-darnthe-
luck!' then gives his peaked nasal Or
gan swipe or two and moves painfully
along.
Two neat little daughters Of fashion
trip along the avenue, confdhlg to each
other their bits of choice scandal, when
one of them says:
"Oh, dear! Jennie, believe I'm
going to sneeze p
"0h, please DON'T" cries the other in
horror. cit Will be awful TO sneeze
right here on the street! Can't you
hold it ?"
"Oh II-must. Indeed I-scl1-
indeed I ca-can't hel-schick--help it.
I -sck-must- ah-ah-sch
ah-ah-oh dear ah-oh-h-h-ah-
scheet- chick-ah-oh-! Jennie! ah
-ah- schloo-oo = DOT ah-schloot p
And then she wipes her pearly nose
and trips along with tears in her eyes
and tells Jennie it's just too awfully aw.
full for any use and she does hope no.
body saw her.
The sedate matron goes about her
sneezing in matter-of-fact way. She
simply stops, bows her head and gives
utterance to q few well-deyeloped
"achoo's" and moves along not caring a
continental who was observing her.
The nervous man stops while look OF
pain crosses his face, draws two or three
long breaths to hurry the thing along,
then doubles himself up as if endeavor-
ing to shoulder the heaviest portion Of
his body, twists his face out Of all sem
blaze of human being and snorts out
his "kroo-whah- oo-whah-boosh-ah-
kroo- whah-whah-oh Lord!" and leaves
the spot wearing look Of the most dis
consulate pain.
It does one good to see the jolly fat
man sneeze. He throws back his mas.
sive shoulders, opens his cavernous
mouth to it's fullest capacity, shuts both
eyes and fairly raises the dead with
"ah-schoooo ah-scHoooo ah-ah-
SCHOOOO! whoopee! woosh-ah-schoooe
wagh-hooo- physchoo0o! Lordy, but
that was good 'un !"
There are a thousand and one othe1
styles OF accomplished sneezing, and il
Will repay any one to note the variety
and style of the various sneezers to he
met with daily upon the streets.-M
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