Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-17

The street car was hunming along a.
lively rate, as street cars do q great
deal more often than they are giver
] credit for doing, when the following
, incident occurred.
| If it didn't occur, at least it ought
| to, and we leave to the astute reader
| the decision as to whether it did or not
The tan gentleman with the tanned
| face was looking out the window. when
suddenly his face began to twitch.
He's going to sneeZe," said debonaii
! Templeton Jones to himself.
"Ker-chewi" went the tall fellow,
"I knew it." said Jones to himself
Then the miracle happened.
The man whipped out his handker-
chief and deity, caught the remaining
two sneezes in it,
Jones slowly arose from his seat and
went up to the man, amid the stares
Of the assembled riders.
Sir" said Templeton Jones, in his
best formal manner, "as president Of
the Anti-Sneeze Society of America,
want to congratulate you.
You are the only man I have seen
sneeze in the past 10 years who has
managed to smother at least two out
of three SneezeS.
IT, myself, once caught an entire
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dent of the society.
1T is the custom OF my organization
to propose for membership any one who
even attempts to catch a sneeZe, and
thus prevent 1t from Spilling millions
of germs upon others.
THE man who catches one or more
of the customary three is always
elected. You may, therefore. ii you
want to, consider yourself already q
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Since We were the fellow passenger
in Jones seat at the time, we fell to
questioning him about his society as
soon has he had returned from the Vi
cinity of the astonished hero,
Yes" replied Jones, II founded the
Anti-Sneeze Society last Winter. We
are as yet small in numbers, but mighty
in purpose, and 1 am sure that before
| another year goes by We shall be an
army.
you see, there is just as much need
| for our efforts at this time Of the year. al
most, as any other season. While there
are a thousand times more colds in
| Winter, it is questionable whether there
| is more than twice as much public
sneezing.
Perhaps you never thought of that,
| Ell? 1t is one Of the features of our
work to bring such interesting facts to
! the attention Of the great general
! public.
1T is like this--in Winter many per-
sons with colds are forced to stay home,
] and so the total amount Of public
| sneezing is not increased as much as
| The Indifferent might think.
Such a large portion Of the public
/, Is Indifferent to the matter of the dan
ger of Sneezing that most Of our effort
to date has been in the field of educa-
| ton
las you no doubt saw just few mo-
ments ago, I was practically the only
person aboard this car who gave any
| particular attention TO the heroic eff
forts that chap made to catch his
sneezes.
Luckily for him. I was here, and 50
he received a public tribute to his in
/ tentions and their success. Far too
many people regard a sneeze as moth
ing at ALL when the truth is that a
sneeze. from any one. anywhere, is a
nuisance, a danger and bore.
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ct recently appointed a committee to
investigate the relative danger OF
sneezes aboard closed and open cars.
mean during Winter and Summer, OF
course 1t might seem. at first thought
that the moving air in the open car