Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-06-06
SPRING FEVER.
A Strictly Reliable Diagnosis Of This Har-
rowing Addiction.

rowing Amiction.
suppose that almost every reader is
familiar with the spring-fever. and not
liable to make wrong diagnosis When
under the influence of that too common
diseases. If there are any who have MOI
had it often enough to know it when j,
grips them. they may be interested in ;
brief description of n few of its mos
striking symptoms.
l probably have the spring-feve,
worse than most people; but l suppose
the symptoms are about the same in all
cases, only varying in virulence.
A man with the spring-fever wants
chiefly to be let alone. His pulse is
regular but slow. aud he has frequent
desire toeit down in an easy-chair and
rest for a couple of centuries. He
would not go out in the backyard and
dig up gold if he knew there was n mine
of it there. ready coined. six inches be-
low the surface He doesn't care who
has struck, who will arbitrate, nor who
won't If the baby falls downstairs ut
his feet. he calls his wife from the next
room to come and pick it up. If the
house takes fire, he waits for the neigh
bors TO come and put out the flames or
throw out the furniture. He won't go
out TO see warm personal friend
try new horse. he doesn't
care who's going to be a
candidate for the State Legislature, and
he hasn't enough interest in the common
veal TO 60 to the front door and kill a
book-agent. His notes go to protest.
he loses his interest in the music of the
dinner-bcll, and If the cook and the ker-
osene-can. and the stove. and the rest OF
the kitchen fixtures go through the
kitchen-rOof in one scene. he Just sits
still wherever he is, and waits for some
one else to go and get the particulars
You can't excite man who has the
spring fever. The tailor may spoil his
spring-trousers. and yet there will be no
bloodshed. The shop-keeper may give
short-weight. the milkman may skim
his milk with subsoil skinner, the
butcher may send him the poores, cuts
from the toughest part of the oldest
horned inhabitant of the county. the as
SCISSOR may raise the valuation of his
property two hundred per centum. and
atotal stranger may GENE into the hall
and borrow his new plug-hat off the
rack. and yet he Knows no excitement.
no riot, no fatal results. Oh. there is
no installing these symptoms of spring.
fever for those of any other disease.
The only thing that troubles the vic
tim Of the malignant spring-fever is tho
realization Of the fact that when he is
awake he must think. II his thinker
would only keep quiet he could be COM
paratiyely happy.
Having spring-fever once is no safe
guard against having it again. You
can have spring-fever ones a year, and
each attack is likely to be severer than
the preceding one. incubation for
spring-ferer 10 no good. NJ. Passeur
might put pint Of spring-fever virus
In q man. and yet he would fall VIC
tim to the disease Just as soon IS the
epidemic opened for the season, and
have il bad
can oder the great number of fellow.
victims of spring fever who will read
these lines no remedy for this distress
ing dissase. II will run its course in
spite of every thing you or Your anxious
friends may do, and If you medica:e il.
you'll make it worse
Whan was q small boy l had the
spring-fsver annually, and just IS bad
Is hA<e il now. Some of nv friends
feared 4 would prove fatal. and others
feoDed 1t would not Occasionally an