The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-20
SPRING FEVER IN THE AIR,
A Disease of Which Sport of Fishing Is
 Said To Be a Cure Of.

Said To Be Cure Of, The microbe of spring fever is in the air. Its victims sometimes mistake it
 for the microbe of typhoid fever, and sometimes for that of tuberculosis, but ! luckily, spring fever is more painful than dangerous.
 It goes hardest with the men. When
 a langour pervades the person of the average masculine and it is an effort
 for him to walk up stairs, and all that l he really wants to do is to seek a lodge | in some vast wilderness, with a ham,
 mock in it, and a cool drink to be sip- ped though two long straws, then he is l convinced that he is alarmingly i'll, and he asks for vacation, and determines ! to go abroad and consult Dr. Lorenz. 1 or at least, if not him, then some spe- | cialfst noted in the line of incurable diseases.
 This page knows man who says that | the only sure cure for spring fever is fishing. Fishing, he says, has curative ! properties little dreamed of by the un- | initiated The ignorant person, seeing a man sitting on the end of a sthearn, "AtAA e 1OA III 1tS uuIlI anu d plpG HI HIS ! mouth, might think he was there for | the pleasure alone, but never was there a more unjust idea.
 Fishing has some occult effect on the health when it is about to break down because the first warm days are so very ! enervating. Even the best of physi- clans cannot trace the relationship be- tween the sport and the cure of inertia, for it is still among the undiscovered things in medicine.
 When a person aches in his feet and feels a disinclination for the opera, when sweetbreads have no attraction ! for him and his cigar pals, then is his condition serious, and if fishing can ease his pathway to the grave, or if | lying fiat on his back in the sand at 1 the seaside can make his last days ] more pleasant, by all means let him do these innocent things.
 Spring fever attacks a man without a l shadow of a reason it usually attacks
 a woman after she has been house. | cleaning, which is reason enogh and to spare. But she doesn't go a-fishing. | She feels that her case is entirely too | serious for such prepost erous remedies. She instantly retires to her chamber, f draws the drapery of her couch about her, and sends word to the dressmaker ] not to mind about beginning her white pongee, for she will not live to wear it. Then the maid brings her up some
 toast and tea, and she partakes of this
 sickroom diet and has the circulars of all the summer hotels brought up and ba,s o1 11yiTt When her better half comes home in the evening her voice Is faint and low. She begins the conversation with sen-
 sation. T had hoped to live to see the
 children grow up, dear" she murmurs,
 faintly, but it seems it was not to be.
 hope the stepmother you give them
 will not be cruel to the poor littlee
 things. Don't you think it would be
 just as well for us to go to Narragan-
 sett the middle of May instead of wait
 ing until July, since my health is so
 bad?''
 There is nothing like a few cold days
 to reduce the number of cases of spring
 fever. Next to fishing, wet weather is
 really the best cure for this ailment.
 When @ patient has it in an aggravated
 lo4ill' IL hLoy NohG' AoWSNSl, q UllAAdEu
 of sufficient strength and duration to freeze the peach crop to eliminate the
 microbe.
 One can tell the sufferers from spring
 fever on the street by their air of lassi-
 tude, and their expressions, which say,
 as eloquently as expression can, 'the
 worst is yet to come" By the worst,
 they mean July and August.
 There is no use running from spring
 fever, for the disease is both infectious
 and contagious, and you're sure to get
 1t. anyway and the longer you ward it
 off, the worse you are sure to have it
 when it constellation News.