The Greeley tribune., 1904-12-01
CATCHING COLD ;
ITS PLEASURES ;

| herent talents, for which no special
course of training is required TO be-
come proficient and still furnishes
one of the most common forms Of
advertisements known to the masses.
Few of us escape its alluring charms.
Rich or poor, old or young, find a
good cold in the head or some place
in the body of sufficient interest
while it lasts to cause the loss of
desire of any better occupation
than to nurse it.
A careful estimate of the number
of people in Greeley today to whom
the common affairs of life are only a
secondary matter compared with
influenza or la grippe-which are only
disguised terms for a good old-fash-
ioned cold-places this at 3, Ill.
The methods for getting into the
game are as many and as varied as
the number of players. In the
cases of men, very different method
is to go pottering about the kitchen
floor bare footed while lighting the
fire in the range. 1t hardly ever
fails to take a hold we'll. There are
two dead sure preventatives for this
form of contraction. Never let the
fire 20 out at night, or make your
fa nn1 70 ot.ti fn 10.
method with the men is to peel OFT
their overcoat as soon as the sun
reaches the angle of the forty fifth de-
gree, and then stop for half hour
on the corner talking to a friend
who is bundled up to the nose in fur
overcoat, and wears gauntlets. For
the first five minutes you will notice
that is providing you can come un-
der this claSs-a chilly sensation
about your wrists because your pock-
cts are bit shallow in depths.
Shortly after you find slight off
feeling in your mouth. You dis
cover that this has roof to it, and
you begin sort of coughing sound,
intermittent, of course, but as time
goes on it requires more attention
Gradually your throat begins to feel
! like alspice, and then twinge
shoots down your spinal column.
This is called catching cold. If you
are old at the game, you will an
nounce to your friend that you guess
you are catching cold. Inwardly there
is no guessing about it. You are
dead cock sure that you have a hum
mer, and if you have whisky and qui-
nine anywhere within getting dis
tance you will get both. If not,
likely you will leave out the quinine.
The second stage of the game is
when you try to get out of bed
the next morning. Then your
limbs will squeak and there is a
slight humming in your head.
The alspice feeling in your throat
has changed to cayenne pepper and
a feeling as of light icy fingers,
chases from the nap of your neck
to the sole of your feet.
Again, if you are man, and
married you will probably fall Imply
back in the bed until you can collect
your faculties. When the collection,
which may be small enough at that,
is complete, then there will be work
for the wife. If you have been mar.
ried long and she knows the symp.
toms, she will probably have hot
water bottle at your feet, mustard
plaster on your stomach and hot
whisky in your hand, while you are
still hunting faculties.
This will hold you few minutes.
as it was likely that these were the
very things you were going to order
as soon as you could think. In the
meantime you have been CAREFUL,
tucked down under the coverlets and
you are so comfortable that yor
actually begin to think you made a
mistake, but you hadn't heard from
your bones yet. Gradually the al
luSion dawns on you that the whole
trouble is in your bones, and that
you are completely ossiiied as the,
all begin to do business. The ache
comes in spurts like the water from
a leaky pump. Every spurt, however
reaches to your two extremes, anC
then back again. You call feebl,
for your wife to send for the doc.
tor. but before she can carry out
your order you have decided that he
| would be too late, ANYWAY. and that