The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-01
At F4TEFUL OMEN or TIE SNEEZE
Warning of Pollen on tho Breeze. the Wise
Man to the Mountains FIeeS.

Man to the Mountains FIees.
This Ia tho season for various things. 1t is
the time. for instance. when your right hand
neighbOr at the boarding. house dinner comes
down in his last winters suit and supplies
flavor OF moth balls to the entire menu.
1t is also time when the man and woman
who were not obliged to harbor their last sea-
sons wardrobe in campnor and tar. where
moth doth not corrupt, look with Frightening
but anxious eye at the shop window displays
OF coldweather comforts 1t is a period OF
new thoughts and new clothes new life and
new lingerie, new energy OF mind and body.
This is what it is to most people. But not to
all To ono class OF persons 1t liz a time for
thinking OF but one thing. 1t Is the season OF
the snee2e! In other words. the hay fever
reign of terror is at its height and heaven
never before seemed so attractive to people
not ordinarily signing to DO Sc, serapl.im. .,o.
only Intelligent aud cultured and, admirable
people fall victims to this peculiar nalady.
Under the Title. "The Morale OF Hay Fever
and it makes very pleasant November reading
for the patients November reading. because
at TINT time they are experiencing the exhil-
eratlpn OF freed IN from the sneeze, and are
eYtenuating circumstances Of its existence.
No hay feversufisrer OF more than two years
experience ever mentions the sneGze without
capitals; that is. never except In winter, The
ordinary sneeZe of the hibernal cold in the
head is 30 insignificant a thing compared with
the autumnal affair that 1t Is but little thought
OF by ali hay fever people OF good judgment
and wei developed cnses. Only those who are
tho natient Of old devices fot checking tho
sncezc. They say to press the finger upon he
upper lip at the base OF the nose. such adj
yisers do not know the sneeze.
AS well might Canute have added an indiE-
nant shoe" to his command to tho tide.
The sneeze Is beyond repression BY any trick
compact with the end OF nerve. The snsels
must be sneeZed' Is as much Of an axiom in
hay fever circles as what goes up must como
down is in exOteric affairs
The only refuge for the hay feverits is flight.
And here comes to light strange fact. that
what ls sure destruction 10 one man is i'm
munity to another. One flies To the seashore.
first train out OF New York: the other becomes
Guthamite for two months. But there are
lew favored spots where not even tho most in
teliigvnt, the most cultured. the most moIs Of
men ncod fear Il return OF the sneeze. The
mountains, ia the opinion OF hay fever pa
tients. need no other excuse. or word OF
praise. for their existence than that they fur
nish haven where tho crown OF tho year is
not TRANSFORMED into crown OF thorns
At one OF the Waite Mountain villages. tho
schoes OF whose quiet streets have never been
reused by the sneele. hundreds Of emanci-
pated victims yearly gather. They stand on
the porches and look up at the blue sky and
thank Coo and the altitude that hay fever is n
thing Of the valley. They even hold meetings
are not precisely love feasts although tho
audience Is such a happy one that there is
plenty OF material. But they do relate their
experiences; how long they have suffered
what caused the ailiction. what they have
tried for It. and ~ on but there they are free