The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-11-03
OMEN OF THE shEEzE.

warning OF FOllen on the Breeze, the Wise
Man to the Mountains Elees.
This is the season for various thingA
1t is the time, for instance, when your
right-hand neighbor at the boarding
house dinner comes down in his last
winters sui and supplies flavor of
moth balls to the en.:re menu
1t is also time when tn. man and
Woman who were not obliged to harucNr
their last seasotfs wardrobe in eam-
phor and tar, where moth doth not
corrupt, look with Frightening but
anxious eye at the shop-window dis
plays of cold weather comforts. 1t is
period of new thoughts and f1c~
clothes, new life and new lingerie, new
lingerie, new energy of mind and body.
This is what it is to most people. But
not to all. To one class Of persons it is
a time for thinking of but one tltirg.
1t is the season of the sneeze! In other
words, the hay fever reign of terror is
DIT it's height and Heaven never before
seemed SO attractive to a people not
ordinarily signing to be seraphimi.
Some one is authority for the state
ment that only intelligent and cult
ured and admirable people fall victims
to this peculiar malady. The theory
was put forward some years ago under
the title, 1.-The Morale of Hay Fever"
and it makes very pleasant November
reading for the patients-November
reading, because at that time they are
experiencing the eXhilara ton of free
dom from the sneeze, and are inclined
to listen to a rehearsal Of some of the
extenuating circumstances of its exist
ence.
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 hibernal cold in the head
is SO insignificant thing COM
| pared with the autumpal affair that
it is but little thought of by all
and we'll developed cases. Only those
who are unaccustomed to the hay fever
sneeze remind the patient of old de-
vices for checking the sneeze. They
say to press the finger upon the upper
lip at the base of the nose. Such adj
tisers do not know the sneeze.
AS well might Canute have added an
indignant "Shoov to his command to
the tide. The sneeze is beyond repres-
sion by any trick compact with the
end of a nerve. ''The sneeze must be
sneezed" is as much of an axiom in hay
fever circles as "what goes up must
come down" is in exoteric affairs.
The only refuge for the hay-feverite
is fight. And here comes to light a
strange fact, that what is sure destruc-
ton to one man is immunity to an
! other. One flies to the seashore. An
other scurries away from it. One takes
the first train out of New York; the
other becomes a Gothamite for two
months But there are few favored
spots where not even the most intelli-
gent, the most cultured, the most moral
of men need fear return of the sneeze.
The mountains, in the opinion of hay
fever patients. need no other excuse,
or word of praise, for their existence
than that they furnish a haven where
the crown of the year is not trans
formed into crown of thorns.
At one of the White Mountain vii
lagos, the echoes of whose quiet streets
have never 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 altitude that hay fever is
thing of the valley. They even hold
meetings in the town hall or one of
the churches. They are not precisely
love feasts, although the audience is
such a happy one that there is plenty
of material But they do relate their
experiences; how long they have suf-
fered, what caused the affection, what
they have tried for it, and so on. But
there they are free-N. Y. Sun.