The Washington herald., 1908-08-23

With iairy seTuins hung
Nost FeuerUcs q flowers. you shed
Y5JE gl1-y everyWhere.
When dOIh the gentle breeze Ea1t o1t
EOE pollen On the ar
SIT with windows closed 70 write
such compliments Is theses
And Oft yosr beauty WIS from ne
Tie tribute q sleeze-
So oozluering you are. sweet foWer.
caurot SAY yea 10.
Until hay fever's s1ue. I can't
Get re17g- Il than 90.
Taking Of hay fever. I wonder why
diseases naturally classify themselves
into those that the onlooker considers
funny. and those which STIR him 10 sym
pathy. We have only to get a hint that
q mans lungs are affected and We sym
pathize with him, praise hira for his high
spirits and his courage We hear that
another man has something wrong with
his liver. and II strikes US as being more
OF less q joke We blame him for his
pessi1nism and his irriyabillty, which, be
ing pathological. are really no more TO
his dgscre6it than the equally patholog-
zeal cheerfulness Of the consumptIve IS
20 his credit
Gout has always been q thing 10 laugh
At in fiction and the drama, but lay
your old gentleman up with rheumatism
and nobody is 50 heartless as 10 laugh
al his grimaces. Deafness is material
for a thousand jokes. but If you made
yqar elderly spinster blind in your neat
little rural comedy you couldn't get the
most hardened urchin Il tisu gaIiery to
grin at the mistakes she makes
Curiously enough. too. the deaf are sci
dom happy. while the face with blind
eyes IL IL almost always wears q smile
And when il comes TO hay fever-really,
nobody feels sorry for Eay-feverist.
It's held 10 b a whim assumed by the
wealthy in order 20 give them an excuse
1or sea voyages and mountain soj0Urns-
The rest Of the world thinks Il silly 10
make such a fuss about what II assumes
70 be a mere cold IN the head The nose
IS not a highly regarded organ. anyway.
and those who wear their noses swollen.
not 70 say red. must not expect consider
alton from persons whose finer taste for
bids such an exhibition Everybody en-
joys an occasional saeeze- People used
70 take snuff for no other reason.
Il stands 10 reason that if one sneeze
Is so pleasant that you have murder in
starrles YOU into losing The delightful
sensation Of It, II must be nothing short
Of luxurious TO sneeze ntnety-seven times
every day for SIX weeks We grin when
Smith tells US hay fever IS nine times
worse than neuralgia, and fourteen times
more dreadful than grip we had grip
once ourselves. and nobody else ever was
half so IL and lived 70 tell IL We've
dated things from that attack ever since)
And as for Smith enduring i for sixteen
consecutive years-as he saws he has done
why. we could admire his courage IN
enduring il one season We could ad-
rni-e his hopefuiness in daring il a second
season. but If Smith had really good
sense and hay fever .s what he says il
IS. he'd have blown his brains out at the
first sreeze OF the third seasOO- There
you are Groan. and the world groans
with you. sEeeze. and you get The laugh.
wish somebody would tel me how I
can enter a young hero in the Carnegie
award for heroism list Up in Connecti7
cut last week. during a two days stay.
had The honor Of meeting q teu-year-old
boy. whose name. Jacob Helfant, ought
70 be written large il the roU Of honor
IL is the eldest son Of a country. grocer,
and he mas i've younger brothers and sis
rers
At s o'clock last Tuesday morning he
went out 10 feed the chickens His broth
ers and sisters were still abed. but his
mother. alone in the kitchen, was setting
about preparing breakfast On q gasoline
stove. Jacob saw e burst Of fame, and
ran into the kitchen Something had
gone wrong with the stove. and his
mother, who has but recently returned
from a long stay in a hospital. was for
en instant too frightened 10 move Jacob
pushed her out OF the path OF the flames
and picked Up the stove
The fame Ieaped up and over his arm.
but he held on. staggered across the
room and ont the door with his roaring
burden Just as he cleared the steps out
side the gasoline tank exploded. Jacobs
face took the bTunt OF IL An instant
later his father had flung, a bucket Of
water over him he could not see ne
when I had the honor Of a presentation
n the darkened rooIa back Of the gro
cery. for banCages hid his eyes and fore
head and covered his fearfuuv burned
ears
His ears were acute. though, for he
interrupted me in the midst Of a foolish
compliment 10 say, with a mans intona-
ton. 10 his small sister Z hear some
body in the store Co and see what's
wanted" AS TO the eyes. Il IS believed
he shut them before the blast scared
theu-perhaps they VII be as acute 81
vision when the banoages come OF as
the ears ara OF Neutrality-suspicious. For
lack Of something worth saying, I asked
Jake how he came to think Of carving
the stove out His voice expressed sur
prise
oh, had TO-" he said Tie house
would have caught IRE II 7 hadn't"
Then he vas silent One small. sun
burned hand caught the coverlet very
ught and held Il a great blister stood
out on the finger uppeTmost-
Who was Il IN the store2' he asked
after a moment, with a catch in his
breath that sounded Ike a sob OF pain.
That was little Jacob Helfant. who lives
at SilvermiDe, which IS near Norwalk. in
Connecticut It was q proud day for me
when I was permitted 20 meet hirn.
I dare say there's none OF Us who
hasn't at one tine or anOther had a day
dream about buying a place IN the coun-
try-not 2 farm. you understand. but a
snug little house with few acres around
II. fruit trees, a lovely view, and good
water, and room for a garden: a place
where one could really raise practically
everything he needed TO eat and sell eggs
enough 20 buy sugar and coffee. and per
hapS keep q COW and make ones own
butter, and put Up a lot OF Jelly. A sort