The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-08-19
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5 O'CLOCK.
HAY FEVER
SEASON
OPENS

From tomorrow on, until frosty weather
bumps the town again. colds are destined
10 be decidedly in fashion. The stylish
cold al this time OF year is not the kind
that tickles the throat, and the cough
candy peddler as well. but rather the ag
gravating. conscienceless cold that roosts
In the head and makes II most burden
some 10 carry around a nose.
II is hay-fever time now, and for the
sake OF denniteness Aug. 20 is the day
officially recognized as the correct time
20 commence 10 sneeze and snuff and get
busy with the Peruna and Munyon's Hay
Fever Australian Hot Air Inhaler
Hay fever is queer ailment Most
Z everybody knows II when II happens
along and the unhappy majority are on
sneezing terms with II. OF all the troubles
that affect folks generally this midsum
mer cold I'm the head business Is the most
provoking and causes more genuine dis
comfort in a single day than all the mos
quito bites and sea sickness OF the entire
season.
Eminent scientists have long been en-
gagged In running 10 earth the cause OF
the epidemic and the market Is swamped
with distillery products warranted TO
knock a cold in the head so soundly In the
solar plexus that IL will have 10 take the
count and give up the game.
The generally accepted theory is that
hay fever is brought on by shifting new
mown hay. A cheap imitation is con
tracted by passing livery stable where
the baled variety hangs out. one sus-
ceptible person is said To have been taken
with violent sneezing on seeing an "ad'
Of feed store I'm the paper. People are
Just as queer about catching hay fever
as they are about Ivy poison. Persons
have been known 10 come home from
ride in the steam cars with hands and
face disigured with the blotches of poison
due TO the passage OF the train by patch
of the bothersome weed
But the most rational explanation OF the
endemic that Is about 10 start up IN TINS
corner OF the world ls that which declares
the trouble 10 be caused by the presence
I'm the air OF an exceedingly nne polleh
dust, thrown off prcfusely by the common
rag weed, rank growth that springs up
In wheat and hay fields after the crops
are cut The pollen Is but lightly at
tached 10 the rag weed and In accordance
with natures provision is taken freely ny
the wind and borne far away In all direc-
tions.
Not only the ragweed. but Ions list
OF other rank weed growths MI the air
with pollen dust at this time OF the year
and the breezes carry IL everywhere;
AS the air Is taken into the delicate
passages
from the weeds irrtates greatly the SEN
eitive mucuous membrane with which
the passages are lined The continued
Irritation produces the painful effects or
acute sneezing and the common results
OF membra ne0us Inflammation.
The prevalence of rainy weather In any
section OF the hay fever zone lessons the
spread OF the trouble as the rain purges
the air OF the impurities And In localities
of great altitude or extreme clarity OF at
mosphere relief may profitably be sought
from the ravages OF the hay fever
epidemic.
Naturally the trouble attacks the more
delicate I'm the community. and as II Is
OF annual recurrence when once IL IL con-
tracted II assumes a more serious aspect.
Hay fever numbers its victims by the
hundreds in Providence. and unless the
predictions prove at sauh this year there
VIII be lots OF hapless persons in this city
waking up tomorrow morning 10 ind their
noses temporarily put out OF commission
and their propensities for sneezing and
AufflinE increased an hundred fold
Handkerchiefs OF the large and soft
variety. are 10 enjoy popularity now for
the rest OF the summer and are TO be
generally carried In close proximity to
irritated. troublesome and uncomfortable
miffers.