Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-01-28
NO WORK WITHOUT ITS WOE.
Ills That Attack Telephone Girls. Bicycle
Riders and Gum Chewers.

ain this fast age we are a prey to
some mighty funny diseases"
The man who said this to a N. Y.
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 bicycle,
| and, while | would like to do 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 dis
ease charged up against the bicycle.
l was going along the street the other
day and saw half dozen young men
who were neither straight nor crooked.
They were all bicycle riders, as | could
tell at glance, and they were all
| afflicted with the safety stoop.' Safe
ty stoop' is mighty bad thing. The
man with the safety stoop.' as it is
called, often suffers impaired vitality.
There is peculiar hump on his back
that cannot be explained in words. 1t
looks something like the stoop of the
| fellow who does the single scull act.
To ride the bicycle is no doubt health
ful recreation, but, like everything
backs, and one of them is the safety
stoop.'
"The other day." went on the doctor.
"a young woman called on me at my
office and said: Doctor, don't know
what is the matter with my ear. lam
getting deaf in my left ear Well. it
was case of the telephone ear You
would be surprised if you knew how
many of our young women are becom-
ing partially deaf through the constant
use of the telephone. 1t is such COM
mon case now that the aurists have
coined the name telephone ear to de-
signate the peculiarities of the case.
The telephone ear is the result of the
never-ending use of one ear in listen
| ing at the receiver of the telephone.
l advise 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
seriously, perhaps permanently, i'm
paired.
"Another strange case" went on the
man, sis found among our girls, who
| are altogether too much addicted to
the use of chewing gum. Now, a girl
who chews gum on every occasion is
working her jaws too much--in con-
! nection with her average amount of
talking. The result is the muscles of
| the jaws are overstrained. There is a
| reaction. Her jaws become set and
well nigh immovable. Her speech then
takes the form of monosylla bles. / do
| not want to be misunderstood in this
matter. say that the girl who chews
| gum to excess will, sooner or later, find
that her jaws refuse to act with their
usual freedom.
at is widely known that the deatist's
disease. for Illustration, is kidney
complaint. Nine dentists out of ten
suffer with it. This is because their
work cOmpels them to stand hour after
| hour rooted to one spot. The strain
| falls on the small of the back and, as it
| happens, develops kidney trouble. |
| mention this as an Illustration Of what
| l am driving at.
AS the result of the recent prize
| fight between Sullivan and Corbett
some unique conclusions were drawn
as to why the famous man had not
won.
John l.. went in the ring with too
much cerebral fat on his neck. You
know the seat of muscular activity is
! in the cerebellum. | advance the
startling theory that the trouble with
John l.. was that he had too fat neck.
This prevented him from striking
/ rapid blow.
"lf a 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
into blows his name would be mud"