The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-14


 teotors a Real Necessity Enclosed d
 Machines May soon Be the Rule.
 An epidemic of ear disease, at first
 unexplainable, has attacked wealthy
 New Workers this spring. The fash
 ionable physicians have had to treat an
 unusual number of affections of the ear
 from ordinary neuralgia ache to far
 more important troubles, such as ab-
 scesses deafness and other unpleasant
 afiictions to which the ear is a subject.
 One of the best known young horse
 owners ow town, who had become an
 enthusiastic chauffeur, has been confin-
 ed in a private hospital for several weeks undergoing the treatment of spe- cialists for an extremely dangerous con-
 dition of the ear, beginning with an ache and eliminating in a severe abscess, (which has bene operated upon several times
 Now the physicians treating the case aver that the sport of rapid automobil- ing is the cause of the prevalent ear troubles. They say that the action of the win resulting from the quick pro- gress of the machines is likely to result very seriously unless careful precau- tions are taken, and that there is also
 much danger through the particles of dust and flying gravel which are liable to find Judgment in the chauffeur's ear
 The high rate of speed produces the danger. Travel at an ordinary degree of progress is not likely to result in any trouble. But the keen sport of the chauffeur consists in getting ahead of all records and this is bound, so the doctors say, to bring on numerous ills, among them catarrh, bronchitis, weak and inf1amed eyes and strained facial muscles.
 Women have been among the chief sufferers from the ear epidemic, for wo- men have been among the most en- thusiastic admirers of the automobile. An invitation from a man to drive had become obsolete among girls in society and was not only considered old fash toned, but in bad taste as the presence of claperon was not generally possi- ble.
 But with the coming of the automo- bile the proprieties were no longer so severely considered. Women have sought invitations to whizz along the roads in the record breaking cahriots and have dressed in their prettiest gowns without any of the usual precau- tions in the way of costume that the chauffeur of experience adopts
 The goggles, veils, gloves and rubber 1 coats worn by so many are really much | more than fad in clothes They are | actually necessary. and the present rage | for record runs will result in all sorts of ! evils unless attention is pal to the pro- lection of the nose, eyes, throat and | ears, which are all exposed to danger.
 Bronchitis and catarrh have flourish ed among automobilists and have added | largely to the lists of patients trated by fashionable physicians. Eyes have be- come infiamed, also, there is a partic- ularly strained expression which af- f1icts the eye of the chauffeur as we'll as tense setting of the jaws producing an expression which has come to be known as the 'automobile face"
 Many people wondered at the closed- in autos which have been used by many of the most ardent chauffeurs since the craze reached it's present popularity. Fhese closed autos are made with curved front of heavy glass, which ad- mits of a perfect view, not only ahead but from the sides. The effect of speed may be enjoyed, but the organs of sight and hearing are protected. Ven tilation is arranged in the back of the carriages. These vehicles will most probably be generally adopted when the list of automobile complaints be- comes fully known.
 There is no sport that ever became popular which did not yield it's list of patients said an uptown physician. "It Is inevitable, but it is not alarming, for many people who indulge in none of these pastimes become i'll and suffer from accidents.
 "The football field has been accused of making cripples, and there have been accidents in plenty because the game was so generally played. People are hurt at golf; several have been killed
 "The automobile carries more danger Just at present than it will later when people understand its pecuiarities and learn to guard against exposing the most delicate and easily injured of or gans, the eye and ear the throat and nostriIs. "Travelling behind good horse is reckoned as being a very slow form of enjoyment by the auto fiends, but it is { safer, for horse has instinct to guide him in his rushes of speed, and unless ' he loses his head he knows when to stop. You will find many accidents on $ the road among drivers, but people be- z come accustomed to them, and the auto at present is new and everything con ' nected with it eXcites comment. Its t speed must be modified if it is to gain I any lasting utility and value for any g thing beyond fad. The trucks and C wagons travel without much t trouble, because the drivers are not / eager to pass everything else on the road, and respect the rights of other I people. V 'Abscesses of the ear are always ex- t rtmeley painful and often very danger c ,us, resulting frequently in permanent | deafness Cotton in the ear is good t preventive against the Judgment of for V ,ign particles in the ear glands ! "A great many otherwise scrupulous- " clean persons are not as particular Y II the care of the ear as they should S 1e. The ordinary sponging in bath is c lot sufficient There is a small nstru- a ri 1,ot ic IIl !