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Phe Omaha Bee. I PA2T TEZXL ! HOME MAGAZINE unday PART TUX. IX. CHILDREN pagls csx to rora. i PAGES OSX TO FCUX r VOL. XLI NO. . Demon of Hay Fever Drives His Victims to the AYE you noticed your hay fever yet? HI Ttli la about the time, around the I fiddle of August, when the afflicted the ragweed and the ripening golden rod begin to pack their trapa those of them who can tor the places where there to no hay ferer la the atmosphere. It seed to be fashionable to seek surcease from the swollen nose and the weeping eye la the wilderness along the edge of some lake or other. Nowadays, though, the viae person who shivers when the wind agitates the pollen of the hay fever plant heads away for some pleasant summer resort sacred to the particular aeeds Of these Involuntary patients. Aad be It said, years ago there came to the front men who aaw the possibilities of this new industry. They proceeded to construct and advertise glorified retreats for the Kay Paver brigade, with all the pleasant enticements likely to hold visitors for a reasonable length of time. Thus, counting the cost, and Tin path txtng one with the other, the sufferer came events ally to appreciate what a dignified complaint they are the victims of. For. be it known, the stedy of the eaase and relief of bay fever has been elevated to the rank almost of a specialty among those phyai- daaa who have become Interested. It would, require quite aa expenditure of language to adequately and properly describe this Irritating, aggravating, fancy, flabbergasting aad most disagree able Illness for It Is nothing less, when yon are a real hay fever fan. Suffice to any. It arises from an acute condition of Irritation in the mucous membrane of the nose, throat and eyes; and It has the power to make the most sedate person weep copiously, and to wail Inwardly; also to temporarily resign mem bership In the Sunday school class aad seek satisfy ing expletives to relieve the sad soul. . "Anbroala Gone to Seed. Whoa one thinks of ambrosia the word conjures ap sweet aad succulent thoughts and brings to the salad's eye entrancing visions of ye god" partaking of the food that made them Immortal. Ask any Omaha hay fever fan about ambrosia, when he Is aft guard, aad he will reply, beyoad doubt, that It was the food of the Immortal gods; also the unguent with which they sarred their hurts aad made their bodies Impervious to ail bad la finance. But ssk the same person about "ambrosia artemiaiaefoUa," aad while he sputters about ragweed he Is liable to throw a brick; tor these two words eonetitute the scientific designation of the innocent little plant known to all urchins ss ragweed. It is now knows to be capsble of creating a ragged condition of health at abort notice. In the proper kind of nose; but whether the nervous and excited condition of the safterer is caused by the ragweed, or the weed take ad Tan tag of a condition already susceptible to Its Inflammatory influence, la a moot question. The proper solution makes little difference to anybody toting about a alee jag of hay fever. DevM Thinks He Gets It AIL "Jack" Da rid. who will get up in the middle of the night, on his night off. to check the baggage of a hay fever sufferer anywhere in the world, aaya cf hay fever; "I hare studied thia gentle plague at close quarters for many years, and have endeavored to sift out and catch the germ by many methoda In variably, the alert germ gets me first, eves before I caa see it. and then the quest Is hopelesa For Tears and years I have been saving my circus money to some day buy me a nice spot on which to plant my tepee and defy the truculent, meretricious demon that peddles hay fever. I have heard of some other people who claim to get hay ferer. but It has always seemed ts me that I get It all and a trifle mora. I have tried blinders, goggles, sieves. Interior decora tion of the nose, and prayer, but my one beat bet Is a visit to the loe cave of Jack Frost. One touch of his magic Icicle and I laugh with a load glee. Sad to relate, a busy baggageman cannot spend all hi time la the Icebox, aad when I leave the cooler my face again takes on the arpearasee of a soft soap Tat. My day to weep aad mourn la next Sunday; that ts, you caa lay tea to one the affliction wiU be with me when I get up that morning. I am now studying anew, aa I do every year, the book of Job, )ast to strengthen my moral fiber against the time of deep grief - Mr. David 1 the baggage master at the Union sta tion, aad from dose obeervntloa be is willing to ad mit be sees s good many ether people who have "some of the same" Is season. Personally, he goes to Colorado for relief, aad says as soon as he strikes the bits altitsdes be becomes almost bumaa agala. Taea when I cove home, right quick Fa tn the sob sqsad at1s. without aay make believe, and I feel a good oal of hoaiiaiioa. about bei&c aa dsriah as , TT1J rod begin to puk their trspe those 5rv V - fCqr y V. 1 OMAHA. a real baggaga man ought to be. Most any old trunk can get the best of me when the ragweed blooms gala, gentle Annia" C C Boaewater Dodges and Wins. C C Rosewater has made a diligent study of the explanatory maps that go with every apodal treat ment tor hay fever. He has liiewi devoted some alight attention to the nicest places to go when the retreat from Nebraska 1 sounded by the pollen bugler, on or about August 15. Speaking of bugled will always put Mr. Rosewater in mind of s yarn concerning swollen nasal organs and the .peculiar tunes that can be "played thereon, and be will very carefully go Into details about the "little dinguses' in the human nose that are so susceptible to the blandishment of gay Mia Goldenrod and Rough neck Ragweed. Thia be does from a purely philan thropic spirit, being a man of large experience In the bay fever army. Like most others of aimilar exper ience, he has reached the concluaion that discretion is all of valor, and not merely a part, when the time for attack approaches. Last year he feund a safe and quite comfortable retreat In the neighborhood of St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. This la some distance off the beaten path, but many people who know a nice place when they aeo It go to St. Andrew a, even If they have no hay fever. Having cast off the incu bus that afflicts and enervate, one can find a golf game, s billiard game, the etceteras of a fine club, and all the comforts of home. This year the bead of the Omaha boosting bureau will do his yearly pen ance at various pleasant spots on the Pacific coast where hay fever la warranted not to Intrude and where a man can keep from being lonesome or tn nuied. Kings Suffer Like Ordinary Mortals. Major General Everett Buckingham, commander of the Union stockyards, will not confess defeat in any other coispaign except one where the women front hi line; and he own up without any four flushing that Miss Goldenrod' pollen mixture get hi goat. Also he asks to Inquire: "The goldenrod is the official flower of Nebraska, Missionaries Take Their Brides TS JUST like a graduating class at West Point the young soldiers take their wives with them wben they go to their tar-away posts. Rev. Dr. Stanley White. ODe of the eec- retariea for foreign misaiona in the big Presbyterian building, was referring with nappy pride to the list of 101 young new missionaries who are sailing away within the coming month for distant lands, aaya the New lork World. Of the 101 young people not one Is SO yet thirty-six hare decided to go as eighteen couples! "They go for life." sail Dr. White, simply, as it it meant nothing tor these young people, filled with the fire of religion, to forsake pleasant homes and loving kindred to spread peace and good will in the wilds cf Africa and Asia aad India to a score of benighted landa In every continent save Europe. They go for barely living wages; they have been warned beforehand that the pay Is proportioned to the exact cost of living where they go from fSSO in Africa, the am all eat. to 11.500 la the Philippines, the largest. "There is little chance." said Dr. Vhite, -for a missionary to lay by money or to pay back debts, and for this reason the board requir all applicants to be practically unencumbered financially, perhaps, but sot in some other waya Where these young peo ple are going there are no other white men or white womea For those who go for life, then, this was the last chance the row or sever! No wonder there was a deal of billing and cooing at the last great conference la New Tor of the newly-made workers la the vineyard, just before the various steamships sailed for twenty different parts of the world. Tow eoald tell them at a glance, these newlyweda already and those about to be wed. They sat to gether at (be daUw mooring, they, kaelt aide side SUNDAY MOKX1XO, AUGUST 13, FAOZ Cjt rf tent it? Why? No one has ever given me a satisfactory explanation. Why sot have picked some more docile, velvety and flossy flower? A cat may look at a king, I know, without harm; but what chance ha a ting against thia floating stuff shed by the goldenrod and the ragweed? None at alL Retainers the most faith ful are powerless to protect even Ak-Sar-Ben. "Hay fever, forsooth! Methinks I handle as much hay as any man in the kingdom, and the worst I ever get is a sticker in my finger, but ever and anon as the fateful day comes round In August I find my srmor has been pierced or, rather, my casque has been invaded surreptitiously by aometfcing one can tot ward against or attack. E'en though I cultivate a mustache of approved shape and fullness, yet do I find sll my rrecautlona in vain. A a monarch of kindly disposition and well affected toward my loyal subjects, willing am I to Buffer for the common good; but what boot It anyone that I ehould suffer the sting and leaka consequent on thia outrageous and they sang Trom Greenland' ley Mountains' and "Gloriou Things of Thee Are Spoken. Zion City of Our God!" from the same hymn book. And wben the stay-at-homea gave them a farewell banquet at Divine Service There wasn't a sound of an organ note. But up in the elms was a yelier bird That raised its head an' it swelled its throat In as sweet a chime as I ever heard; The woods woke up an' the chipmunk chirred Forever an' all like they limned the hymna For them that come tor the gospel word An' tuk their pew on the lowest limba The blackbird first with his long-tail coat An' fancy vest with its store-made fit The oriole with hi yelier th oat. The lark an' th ush an" the gray tom-tit An' then the crow he' a hipptrcrit. An' hold that stealin' 'a the best o' Jokes! An' then the sparrows crep' In an' sit Tgether. fer all like the humble foils! The meetin' started, o" course, with song 'The timbrel ealU" aa tb Bapuat says A sort of celody, loud an' strong. That filled the world with the Father' praiae; Aa then, as in keepin' with holy days. The choir stopped an' there come s hush, Aa' God spoke out through the silent ways From His pulpit hid In th hawthorns brush. Aa' O the sermon I heard that day! A sermon straight from the shoulder, square. That teacher the gospel of Love, I aay, Twell Presbyterluma csn't compare Nor Baptists Bother! and I declare It made me penitent, yea. slr-e-e. T think that of all of the faithful there The only siaser of all was me! vJoLa D, Wpli la fi&fXalq Evening News, 1911. Idiosyncrasy cf the wayside weed? Remedy, pallia tive, cure? GadxookB and sounds, msn, there be none, hereabout at least. To him who will Invent auch boon will I doff my crown and with him will I fraternise most genially. There is but one good word to be said for thia hay fever that doth so afflict na, and that la It doth furnl6h good excuse for laying aside the cares of the state and hieing afield to give change of air a chanoe to rejuvenate our aching proboscis and our all top watery eyes." King Ak-Sar-Ben Buckingham already has his, being ever In the lead, and his Ice bill ha been In creased by the need to secure some extra for facial application. He may talk lightly, but he feels heavily the unwelcome rlelt of the poisonous pollen. Greene Has the .Philosophic Spirit. Some there be who accept hay fever without much fuas, as one of the thing not to be avoided, and merchants with large stock of handkerchiefs never feel any great degree of grief when the epidemic is raging. "Charley" Greene, the lawyer, la one of the men who have cultivated a hay fever temper to that degree he does not let it fret hie soul; In fact, re gard It with a spirit of delightful philosophy In the interval when he can be alone with his woe and his linen weapon of defer sc. It IS understood Mr. Greene ha given serious study to the peculiar regularity with which this fussy form of fever attacks those it marks for Its own. Recently, when the new was flashed through the world that every man and woman, and every child, possesses an aura, or rur roundlng cone of personal atmosphere of varying colon that can be seen under proper condition!, it occurred to his mind that the technical term for gol denrod 1 virga-aurea Then, mayhap, said Mr. Greene, there la' a relationship between the aurea, the plant, and the aura of certain person of tem peramental differentiation la aura coloring. Why not? And here opens another field for lively specu lation. Keeea Inteflort Are Ko Protection. Ward Burgees is a veteran hay fever recruit, a)- with Them the Hotel Plata they dined side by aide and their names In the guest list were twined together an Italic "and" coupled each pair, those Jut married and those about to be. And with kindly forethought none of the new couples will be separated. In all cases bride and bridegroom will Journey to the aame land, whether it be to Central Africa or tar away Into hidden Hunan; to India, China, Persia or South America. There 1 a thirty-seventh one, too. In this aoon-to-be-ftcsttered 101. Let her be named first Miss Ruby Clare Cook. Just graduated from Park college. Mo., ahe goes slone to the Philippines, there to marry the Rev. James P. Eskrldge. a missionary already at hi at Li oa. This fourteenth snnual conference held by the board of foreign missions of the Presbyterian church for Its newly sppolsted missionaries was a tremendous ucceea The 101 made up the biggest class ever sent a wav at one time. They go to Join the 1,03 0 already in the field. Averaging the expenses and psy of each one at It, 5 00, this means a quarter of a mil lion dollars a year more added to the outlay of the board, now spending nearly 11.000,000 a year in heathen laada But this means nothing to the Pres byterisns, who have the largest missionary force sent from the United States and spend th meet money. Just now they are planning to raise IS.000. ooe In one great work to Carietianise, educate, doctor and help those poor creatures, thousands of miles sway, who haven't been as lucky aa we. Coy ClBsrtlo. "Hew comld 70 distress 70" daaghter' sahor whea ta this Wire be proposes to load ber to the "Well, ta Its Tery oat are. lest a tnlas leading propoettioar'r BaJtimore SINGLK COPY FIVK CKNTS. High Places though it is hsrd to explain Just how a veteran caa be a recruit, except that the enlistment is a yearly, stunt. Mr. Burgess was recruited by the far spreading pollen of an early year, and has faithfully bowed in obeisance to MiKa Goldenrod' penitential decree acb year since. At this point it will be la good form to bring out the tact that people of In tellectual characteristics seem to be easier victima to the pestiferous pollen than those who might bo thought to have a closer relationship to Roughneck: Ragweed. And, too, women are not exempt. Among the many women of Omaha who view the coming of Au gust 15 with misgiving are Mesdames Harry Deuel W. H. Clarke. E. J. McVann. James Martin, J. E. Sum-, mera. George Thunmel. George Barker, Miaa Hortenso Clarke. Like some of the men In the fever lists, soma of the women brave it through here In Omaha, while thera get on the vacation train for the high, frosty zones "before the time tor succumbing arrives. Mrs, Thummel snd Mrs. Martin have already gone to the lakes. In the "Soo" region; Mra. Summer beats the enemy at Isle Royale; Mr. Clarke ia in the high, safe air at WelJer, Colo ; Mra. George Barker baa found an Immune spot In the north; Mra McVann ha pinned her faith to the Hot Spring atmosphere. Alfred Thomas, secretary of the Creighton Realty company, is s victim who stands his ground and quietly accepts what fate the dog daya bring, or the ripening weeda acatter about. Alfred G. Ellick know of old how the play of po'lea set him on the lugubrious train, and he has already steamed away to the cooler mountain a. Mra Elites' accompanied him. Clement Chase, Jr., has made a safe get-away to the" Michigan cool rpota. Judaon Squirea picked Clearwater Lake, Minn., as his tenting ground and 1 established there la good time. j A Good Many Braaea It Out at Homo. - 3 "What's the use of running?" aaka a spokesman for the stay at homes. "We were here first, and we'd like to see any old ragweed drive as awiy, Omaha air ia clear and cool, and as th anti-weed campaign develops hereabout the seriousness of aW tack abatea. When we can get a bigger appropriation for destroying weeds, or an Increased public spirit on the part of all property owners, we can be rid of hay fever. And yet and yet. that's going prettjj tar; for I know people in the hay fever class who swear they never get within a mile of a weed, and still they fall into the dismal condition. I have some time wondered if It Is s habit, and auto-suggestion works on the mind to that extent the muooua mem brane becomes softly susceptible. Hadnt thought of that before. Guess I'll talk it over with Dr. Sherra den." Dr. W. H. Sherraden la president cf the Field club and at the same time is one of the gamest hay fever fans In thia neck of the woods. He ia clever, too, but no amount of cleverness or research seems to enable the victim to protect themaelvea Louis Reichea berg has grey matter enough for success In most any line, but when hay fever (day comes he 'wilt like the rest and takes to the line of least resistance, Sufferer Organise Up North. In Minnesota and Wisconsin regular associations' lave been formed of hay fever gatherer. They hold meetings and discus palliatives and jolly each other antil momentary forgetfnlnesa ensues; aad they point with pride, like thoae who have "tad aa opera tion. to th fact that cot everybody can get la the hay fever class. Chequameson bay. at th head of Lake Superior, la the one best refuge of the sufferers within reaca of that sheet of water, and Isle Royale, also In Lake Superior, draw even aome cf the Omaha victims. Of course, there is good fishing, and much other sport, to be found In that section, and this fact na have something to do with making the northern bsy and Island popular. Wben away from home, with normal nose and eyes, when they ran tU a rose from a Umburger cheese, hay fever folks are as fond of good company, a good time, aad good living, 94 others. . ar .... ..