The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16

Then she opened every window and
door in the house to let all fumes es-
cape before her husband reached home
in the evening. He did not know of
her purpose when he left, but when he
opened the front door hours after this
work had ceased he lifted his nose,
shut the door and went around the
house to the back porch. He could not
enter.
Fortunately for the peace Of the FAM
lily, this man does not care for eggs.
cakes or other foods in which eggs are
used. He has no special love for what
many persons require as daily diet.
His wife is very fond of eggs, but
she can as readily handle a dish of
green's garnished with arsenic, for she
has inherited antipathy to eggs in any
form. To her eggs are the certain fore
runners of trouble. The effect of eating
them Is closely analogous to that of
arsenic.
This idiosyncrasy is definitely marked
and inalterable. Every possible means
has been adopted to remedy 1t, but
without avail. The woman suffers at
times when with her friends, because
they think she is shamming. But one
experience with the trouble after they
have induced her to eat something with
an egg in 1t on the solemn statement
that none has been used cures the play
full friend. The suffering, which
amounts to enough to force the break
ing of engagements which have been
anticipated with much pleasure, is no
sham and the friends finally learn
this.
One other woman has an aversion to
apples amounting to adherence. To
eat an apple with her Is to be thrown
into commissions, as If she had taken so
much strychnine. Another cannot en-
hnnav n a
produces serious disturbances and now
the fruit of the labors of the bees is
never taken to her home.
One young girl has birthmark which
takes the form of terror in the presence
of or contact with lard. She dare not
go near the stock yards, where the odor
comes from the rendering watts She
will flee from grocery or meat market
IL bucket be open and she sees it.
She cannot handle any dish which con-
tains or has contained lard until every
vestige, every unseen particle has been
secured out again and again. For
many years she was not Informed OF
the origin of this trouble in the vain
hope that she would outgrow it. But at
last it was thought best to tell her the
strange stSry.
Recently, while helping her sister
clean up the dishes after a dinner, she
took up a pan which had been creased
to while baking. Most of the lard had
been taken up by the food and nobody
not so possessed would have realized
that any remained. She handled the
pan for an instant. her fingers touched
the unseen lard, she dropped the pan
with cry of terror and incontinently
| bolted from the house. She was really
unable to resume her work, for the
| mark is ineradicable.
All of the cases cited are easily found.
| They form but major fraction of cases
| of tdiosyncrasies which exist in Chi
cago. Numerous other instances might
| be collated which have their founda-
ton in seeming shams. But to the SUI
| ferers they are real indeed. Science
gives 1t up and medicine has but one
remedy, avoidance of the interdicted
article. Not a very fiattering prospect
but UP to date that Is all the wise men
of drugs and bandages have to Offer
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