Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-07
AT FATEFCL OMEN OF THE sNEEzE,
Warning Of Pollen the Breeze, the
Wise Man 60 the Mountain Flees.

From the New York Sun
This is the season for various things. II
is the time. for instance when your right
hand neighbor at the boarding house dinner
comes down in his last winters suit and
supplies favor OF moth balls to the en-
tire menu.
II is also the time when the man and
woman who are not obliged 10 harbor their
last seasons wardrobe in camphor and tar,
where moth doth not corrupt. look with
Frightening but anxious eye at the shop
window displays Of cold-weather comforts.
II is a Period OF new thoughts and new
clothes. new life and new lingerie. new en-
ergy OF mind and body.
This is what Il is TO most people But NOT
to all. To one class Of persons IL is n time
for thinking OF but one thing. IL is the
season Of the sneeze. In other words. the
hay fever reign of terror is at its height.
and heaven never before seemed 80 attrac-
tive to a people not ordinarily sighting to be
seraphim.
Some one is authority for the statement
that only intelligent and cultured and adj
mirable people fall victims TO this peculiar
malady. The theory was put forward some
years ago under the title. THE Morale OF
Hay Fever" and IL makes very pleasant
November reading for the patients-No-
vember reading. because at that time they
are experiencing the exhilaratiun OF
freedom from the sneeze, and are inclined
to listen TO a rehearsal OF some OF the ex-
tenuating circumstances OF its existence
No hay fever sufferer Of more than two
years experience ever mentions the sneeze
without capitals: that is. never except in
winter. The ordinary sneeze OF the hfber-
nal cold in the head is so Insignificant n
thing compared with the autumnal affair
that II Is but little thought Of by all hay
fever people OF good judgment ard well de-
veloped cases. Only those who are unac-
customed to the hay fever sneeze remind
the patient OF old devices for checking the
SDNRzR- They n ha fne
the upper lip at the base Of the nose. Such
advisers do not know the sneeze
AS well might Canute have added an In
dlgnant "Shoot" to his command TO the
tide. The sneeze is beyond repression BY
any trick compact with the end Of nerve.
The sneeze must be sneezed" is much
Of an axiom in hay fever circles as what
goes up must come down" is in exotsrie
affairs.
The only refuge for the Ray feverite in
flight And here comes to light u strange
fact, that what is sure destruction 20 one
man is immunity to another. One flies to
the seashore Another scurres away from
Il. One takes the first train out OF New
York; the other becomes @ Gothamite for
two months. But there are a few favored
spots where not even the most Intelligent
the most cultured, the mos, moral Of men
needfear a return of the sneeze. The noun
tafns. In the opinion of hay fever patients
need no other excuse or word OF praise for
their existence than that they furnish q
haven where the crown OF the year 10 not
transformed into a crown Of thorns.
Az one OF the White mountain villaxeg
the echoes OF whose quiet streets have
Fever been reused by the sneeze. hundreds
OF emancipated victims yearly gather
They stand on the porches and look up at
the blue sky, and thank God and the a.ti.
tude that hay fever IL a thing OF the VAL
ley; They even hold meetings in the Town
Hall or one Of the churches. They are not
precisely love feasts. although the audtence
Is such a happy one that there Is plenty Of
material. But they 90 relate their exper-
fences. how long they have suffered, what
caused the affiiction what they have triex
for It and 30 on. But there they are freN