The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-29
KA-CH0O IS HERE!
Hay Fever Victims Going Thru
Most Severe Period.
Great Stuff for Women Who
Wish To Sob at Camps.
OH, YES, THERE is A CURE
Mortgage Your House and Buy
Ticket to Mountains.
Then It's a Good Plan To STAY
Away From Weeds.
OH, YES, THERE is A CURE

The annual period of affliction of
hay fever victims is a hand.
The victim of this malady has but
one compensation, If said victim hap
pens to be woman with a soldier
man at camp. Otherwise there are
with hay fever goes to camp to visit
her soldier who is about TO leave for
service She finds that the tears are
making little zigzag burrows thru the
powder; she is just about to break into
sobs. So she delivers a series of ka-
choos into her handkerchief. and
comes up smiling. with crimson nose
and watery eyes, but a fairly good
abb for what was about to develop
into spell Of weeps.
Comes now. with a troop of other
reformers and faddists, the Hay Fever
Prevention association. All those af-
flicted with hay fever insist, to be
sure, that there is no prevention, but
one must consider that it is just by
the strength of the no-prevention
thoory. bolstered up by the oaths of
relia Bile citizens who were hay-fever
fans, that two-thirds of the summer
vacation trips have been taken. Co.
ing to the mountains or the lakes or
for that matter, anywhere but the
place where he happens to be. has
been the thing for the hay fever pa
tlent; 1t has constituted the one ortho-
doN method of relieving the malady
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he permanent. so that the sufferer was
sure OF another trip next year.
Now for the Cure.
At all events, the Hay Fever Proven
ton society has a scheme for the cure
o. the trouble. BY their plan the cost
ment, and not on the patient,
This miraculous cureNis accom-
plished by the simple expedient of in
duclns the city commissioners to spill
a liberal allowance of common salt
into the swimming pools Then the
sufferer from hay fever takes a dip
into the municipal swimming pool, and
presto! old Naaman's seven baths in
the Jordan for leprosy have nothing on
the Hay Fever Prevention associa-
tons prescription.
In conjunction with this magic, a
scheme OF prevention should be prac-
ticed. Anyone subject to hay fever
must not build or rent a house for his
own occupancy within one or five
miles of weed patch. The science
of the thing is that the pollen of the
weeds which causes the sneezes and
the tears, does not travel very far as
rule, probably not more than a mile.
unless the patch of neglected land
happens to grow some rag weed. The
hay feverite has a particular grudge
against rag weed. because its pollen is
especially potent in inducing nasal
membrane irritation, and that pollen
Is also so buoyant that it travels from
three to five miles. or almost any dis
lance it needs to go to find an apt
subject for its dirty work
Let the City Get Busy.
Here. again, the city commission
gets into it. In fact. the city govern
ment's responsibilities are about
doubled in August when the popuIa-
ton starts to sneeze. When you dis
cover a weed patch within one or five
miles of your residence, if you are a
good citizen, you dash to the telephone
and call the city hail post haste. Com
missioner Porter is then, according to
the Hay Fever Prevention society. to
put on his hat and hurry out to NOW
the weeds. A patient of the dread
fever nalady must have exercise, but
he should, before going to promenade,
have map drawn up locating the
weed infested districts. and then he
must avoid those noisome byways
Besides bathing in a salty pool and
keeping clear of weed, the victim is
also counscled to be careful of his diet
He must not eat meat, fish. eggs,
cheese or milk, and his food must not
he highly seasoned. Also he must alb
stain from alcoholic beverages.
Thus, the hay fever patient may
live the season thru. if he can induce
his city fathers to season up the SWIM
ming water and keep the weeds cut
and if he will leave uneaten and un-
tasted everything he likes to eat and
drink, and eats and inks all the
things he doesn't like, and will stay at
home instead Of taking a cool trip. In
short. when he gets to tie point where
he doesn't care whether he lives or
dies. he has 4 good chance to live.