St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-19

date when hay fever is due, there has begun
to run through the noStrilS of that sectlon
of humanity that is its annual victim the
first faint WhisperingS and feathery tick
lngs of what will develop in
the coming month into well-de-
fined sneeze. The irritating microbes
are marking time, as it were, for grand
charge bayOnets up the cartilages OF the nose
some weeks later, when the forehead VIII
wrinkle, the eyes become red and watery,
the upper lip contracted the speech grow
thick and indiStinct, and the whole system
will give vent to its pent-up emotions in a
grand series of sneezes. In Minnesota, ac-
cording to the testimony of physicians, and
observation
AS TO THE SUFFERERS,
this trouble is not as predominant as in the
older and more densely populated states.
But yet they are here. and some of st.
Paul's most respected citizens are its vic
Tins Its fine-grained titillatiOns invade
alike the noses of jewellers on Summit
avenue and the Bohemian flats. The
former take a trip to Mackinaw, where
hay fever cannot exist for twenty-tour
hours, and secure immunity from
the plague; the latter stay on
the flats and sneeZe. Physicians
say the trouble is not yet within the grip of
science firm enough for concise statement
of its origin. 1t comes. 1t gets its victim
down. He sneezes and snufiies until frost
comes. 1t is gone. Its ills are worse than
those dyspepsia brings. and its origin Is as
mysterious as the mystery of Edwin brood.
1t affects different people in different
ways. Some sneeze until they turn somer-
SaultS and their eyes are as red as new
spring beets, while others simply gasp for
h,-ao ,arbi.b IN lmnrnp1-
tiOnS on
THE HAGGARD PEST.
Rose cold, sort of child of hay fever,
zones earlier in the season than its parent
and is less demonstrative in its actions, but
makes itself known just the same. 1t is
the offspring of the roses and comes in
the month of roses, and, like the rose, by
any other name it would get in its work
just as hard.
A ST. Paul physician when asked as to
the nature of this disease said: sit is not
known Just what it is or how to treat it.
The rose cold is much like amy cold in the
head in its effects, and some believe it
comes from the pollen of the rose, which,
floating in the atmosphere and inhaled into
the nostrilS, inflames some of the nerves so
that the same effect is produced as if the
person had taken cold. Just why this pol
len should affect some noses and not others
Is hard to say. The disease is i'll some way
ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE ROSE,
as persons suffering from it are able to de-
feet the presence of roses ina room by
greater irritation almost Immediately.
1.-The hay fever, which comes later in the
year. is much like the rose cold, only more
violent. This is attributed to the pollen
from certain kinds of grass flowers that
bloom at about that time of year, though
people in cities where there is no grass
for miles are afflicted with it,
Some attribute it to the pollen of corn in
bloom, and cite cases where patients have
been almost suffocated by merely passing a
field where the corn was just putting out Its
silk. There is no permanent and sure cure
tor hay fever, though fumes of some COM
pounds of iodine, inhaled, will give tenn
porary relief. When the first frost comes
the disease vaniSheS, often i'll single night,
LEAVING NO TRACES
of itself except in the memory of the one
that sneezed, and perhaps somewhat dis
eolored nose"
'H-h-h-hh-c-cc-h-h-h-e shh ee ouggg
Ah," said a lady, suffering from rose cold,
when asked as to the effects of the trouble.
''H-h-h-hh ccc!!' but she did not finish the
latter sentence. She stopped, with the syl-
liable half uttered on her tongue, or rather
on her entire face and head. 1t is strange
what shapes the human face can
assume during the entire course, from
start to finish, of full
grown sneeze. 1t is hard to tell an incip-
lent SneeZe from the first faint footsteps of
a smile skipping across the face. Later, the
difference becomes more noticeable, the
wrinkles on the forehead run up and down
instead of crosSwiSe, and there are more of
them; the eyes close, and through every
nerve and cartilage of the whole nasal sys-
TEN there runs a thrill of pleasure that is at
times akin to pain.
IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED
that a fat man suffering from hay fever
condenSes work enough, and work is used
In its strictly mathematical sense, into
half hours sneezing to raise 1437 pounds
100 feet in a minute. There is a vast dit
ference between the SneeZe of the fat man
and the lean hay fever patient. This has
been noted and commented Oh at the Mack
Inaw straits where in large numbers the
victims Of hay fever flock in August, and
at the annual meetings of the hay fever as
ISOLATION, where hone but patients are
admitted. When the fat man sneezes
the entire atmosphere for several feet
around becomes sluShy, and as the various
processes are carried out there seems to
rome from within hundred whispers. as if
the wind were rustling through the vine
clad rocks and olive groves at the foot of
Helicon. Then they grow deeper and
whisper louder, as if a storm were coming.
and what a moment ago was a zephyr has
become gust. The gust braces itself into
b hurricane, and
FOLLOWING THE HURRICANE
zones the cyclone, just as surely as the
night the day. At this point it is often the
Ease that sort of filibustering begins that
greatly delays the regular business of the
session. The gentle tickling that was so
rapidly taking possession of the sneezer's
frame suddenly declines to serve further
in that capacity, and the preliminary az
engagements that have been perfected have
10 be given up. This is very discouraging
20 the patient, and, if long con-
tinued, will shatter all self-confidence
and leave the victim prey to
melancholy. A sneeZe once lost never will
return, and smothered sneezes, like the
worm the bud, will prey on the saffron of
the cheek. Though there is no reason as
signed, it is said that people with blonde.
horld compilations are more likely to be
victims to hay fever than those of the opnO-
site. FleShy people, too, are apt TO be sub
lect to 1t. For this reason fewer observa-
$lons OF the sneeze of a lean man are ON
record than OF the fat man. The lean man.
too, is in better condition to
COPE WITH A sNEEZE.
or succession of sneeZes than the fat man
and while sneeze that starts and Is dis,
tanced at the half-mile pole causes inst as
big break in the pool box i'm the case of
the lean man as in that of the fat man. fine
Instances are fewer. A tall. thin. nervous
nan can sneeze gracefully. Usually a