Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-03-09
NO WORK WITHOUT ITS WOE.
Ills That Attack Telephone Girls, Bicy-
Gle Riders and Gum Chewers.

Gle Riders and Gum Chewers.
lin this fast age we are prey II
some mighty funny diseases.
The man who said this to "a New
York Herald man, one of the widely
known physicians of New York, went
On to explain as follows: The other
day my son asked me to buy him a
bicycle, and, while | would like to dc
it, have been hesitating because
know that if he rides very much he
will become afflicted with the safety
stoop.' Catarrhal laryngitis is the
latest disease charged up against the
bicycle. / was going along the street
the other day and / saw half a dozen
young men wEO we're neither straight
nor crooked. They were all bicycle
riders as | could tell at glance, and
they were all afflicted with the
safety stoop.' Safety stoop' is a
mighty bad thing. The man with a
safety stoop,' as it is called, often
suffers impaired vitality. There is a
peculiar hump on his back that can
not be explained in words. 1t looks
like the stoop of the fellow who does
the single scull act To ride the BIZ
cycle is no doubt healthful recrea-
ton, but, like everything else in this
world, it has It's drawbacks. and one
Of them is the safety stoop.
The other day." went on the doe
tor, "a young woman called on me at
my office and said: Doctor, don't
know what is the matter with my
ear. | am getting deaf in my left
ear Well, it was "a case of the .tele-
phone ear You would be surprised
if you knew how many of our young
women arc becoming partially deaf
through the constant use of the tele-
phone. It is such common case
now that the aurists have coined the
name telephone ear to designate the
peculiarities of the case. The 'telc-
phone ear is the result Of the never
ending use OF one ear in listening at
the receiver of the telephone. | adj
wise all young people, and old ones,
too. who are afflicted in this way, to
vary the ears in listening through
the phone. If they do not, sooner or
later the hearing of the ear that is
worked too much will become serious
". perhaps permanently, impaired.
Another strange case" went on
the man. lis found among our girls,
who are altogether too much ad-
dicted to the use of chewing gum.
Now, a girl who chcws gum on every
occasion is working her jaws too
connection with her aver
age amount of talking. The result j.
the muscles of the jaws are over
strained. There is a reaction. Her
jaws become set and we'll nigh inn
movable. Her speech then takes the
form of monosyllablcs. ! do not
want TO be misunderstood in this
matter. | say that the girl who
cheWs gum TO excess will sooner OF
later, find that her jaws refuse to act
with their usual freedom.
1T is widely known that the den.
lists disease for illustration, is
kidney complaint. Nine dentists out
of ten suffer with If. This is because
their work cOmpels them to stand hour
after hour rooted TO one spot Tho
strain falls on the small of the back
and, as it happens, develops kidney
trouble. I mention this as an illus.
tration of what | am driving at
AS the result of the prize
fight between Sullivan and Corboti
some unique conclusions were drawn
as to why the famous man had not
won.
John L. went into the ring with
too much cerebral fat on his neck
You know the scat of muscular
activity is in the ccrcbcllum. i
advance the startling theory that the
trouble with John l.. was that he had
too fat a neck. This prevented him
from striking a rapid blow.
elf man has fat neck he might !
have all the science in the world. yet
his blows would be so slow that they
would not amount to very much. He
might be able to think quick enough, |
but before he could turn his thoughts |
ntO blows his name would he mud"