The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-01
y a C0ld-It Will geSign You to Anything

ather!
 No sooner had the flood sea- passed Us than the sun got Dd.
 took dead level aim, turned E the heat PIP Fahrenheit, fell on our heads, and parched us til we felt all warped.
 We dried out too fast. 1 Chen we suddenly melted to R Ices. And dried out again. And 8 versa and versa vica, vers
 e, and many other things.
 We'd put on our fur one minute
 1 jerk it off the next. One sec
 we were sweltering and the it having sort of dumb, creepy
 ritualistic chills that made us
 hsy.
 Ne noticed the big freckles
 ping out on the faces of our
 .nds overnight, and went home
 use buttermilk lotion, mud or
 pething.
 We also used lily white and fan
 ourselves, and sat in the big
 t draft we could locate around
 house.
 And then we took a summer cold
 ] became a general nuisance and thinker of unutterable epithets i, we crept around bleary eyed, h a puffed throat and in gen.
 l misery.
 t We were in involuntary bank ptcy for any kind of joy.
 We hoped never to see any more
 white or mud as long as we
 id. Women were too much
 ies to fashion, anyway.
 We pondered that we had read
 time that the effects of even
 cold are never overcome by
 human being. The system is
 It little more weakened.
 Weaker and weaker you get
 ry cold you have.
 We felt awfully weak, and look
 to see, if we could, how many ids it took to kill you. We didn't fink we were due many more. But we were unable to find out. he book didn't say. That is a l,ing somebody is keeping dark i'd he ought to be made to tell. We don't want to live to be a < ndred if we have to have another Id.
 } It's not worth it.
 It keeps you too blame busy and ! live.
 fAnd bothersome! .,t's impossible to keep your mind your business. You have to stop
 often to wonder why you have Hive, anyway, considering what II have before you to endure, and ) of life's usual agonies.
 You are in a dreamy state in lich a hearse takes the affecting { Tt and the undertaken is your st friend and hero of the occa- 9n. You can depend upon him t to smile. You don't care so wfully much about being en- aimed, however. So creepy. Then, again, you are reused out # your cold precipitation every title while by some co-worker reeping over to tell you how he hinks he caught HIS summer cold. md all the time you have sneak lg notion, by the way he looks l. you, that he planes it on you, Id feels that you ought to be rown out for the sake of the gen al office force l He tries to date your cold back day or two before his. And does You are helpless to prove or sprove. In fact it might have zen you. You feel germy enough 7 have given it to minor any, ,ody.
 Sneeze - sneeze - and off goes he top of your head! The rest of the workers covertly lare at you. They get up and 1ove around. There is none to ympathize-and you with hot ever! You can tell they are scared reen they'll catch it, and anx- ously noting whether you are burying your face in your
 dkerchief each time you sneeze.
 ou decide you'll bring bed .[t if you ever do have to have mother cold around the office. A andkerchief is too inadequate. Sneeze-sneeze-again.
 And then another precious five econds is gone, and you haven't sritten one line of that cane-cut- IFS ball, and closing time is star ks you in the face, and it's got
 be in the mornings paper nth or hospital for you.
 ids so nice-a summer cold.
 you trying a little one at
 .ouse?
 Host everybody else is. byinnrnirg and Talking Inf Trims IprMgr1m NMW