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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1937 is allergic to ragweed pollen. His protests to the doctor that he has not been near any ragweed need not confuse us, for we know how the pollen got to him. The doctor explains it to him, too. Now the doctor orders injections of the proper type of pollen vaccine into the blood. Next year, now that the patient’s allergy is known, he will be given minute, but increas ing doses of the injection, starting in February and continuing for a few weeks until it is thought he should be immune when the season comes. It does not always work out that way, and sometimes daily in jections during the season itself do not help. Different pollens do their dastard ly work at different times of the year in different sections. In the eastern and central states, for instance, June grass causes trouble around the beginning of that month; in early July it is Timothy hay, lat« Hay Fever Is No Longer Such a Mystery to Medical Science Skin Sensitization Test Can Now Find What Allergy Is Troubling Yon By WILLIAM C. UTLEY K A-CHOOO-OO-OO! Ha-ha-ha-WISH-eeeeeeee! Sniffle, sniffle, wheeze—gib be a haggichiff, quig! Hey, hey, it’s the good old summer time and the hay fever season is open. •*Why, oh, why, do I have to go through this every year?”is the wail of the hay fever sufferer, and well it might be for there is hardly an affliction so relentless in its unwelcome annual visits. The answer to the victim’s cry is*” that he is allergic to something in the air, probably the pollen from a plant or weed. What particular plant it is determines whether its pollen rides the air waves in May, June, July or September. Time used to be that hay fever victims, when they began to sneeze, their eyes started to water and their noses to sniffle, simply had to pack up, leave home and make for the North Woods or the resorts at Charlevoix and Mackinac island in Michigan where the air is compar atively free from dust and pollen. While this made an excellent ex cuse for a vacation it was a con siderable expense and often a great inconvenience. Fortunately today medical science has made such strides that hay fe ver can now be treated with a pretty fair degree of success right at home. The big task is to find out what type of pollen is causing each individual case. To do this doctors may have to be expert de tectives, for many different individ uals are allergic to different things. Results of Allergy. All of us are allergic to some thing or other, whether it be a cer tain type of food, the hair of a cer tain animal, feathers from pillows, some types of dust, or even smoke. But only about one person in ten is allergic to such a degree that he is uncomfortable. By allergic we mean, in a free sense, that we are unusually sensi tive to something. A high degree of allergy to some of the things mentioned in the • foregoing para graph may result in any one or combination of a number of afflic tions—eczema, hives, “colds,” hay fever, headache, diarrhea and other ailments. Hay fever symptoms spring from hives which occur in the nose, si nuses and eyes, causing sneezing and itching. If they were to occur in the lungs, causing spasmodic con traction of the bronchial tubes and coughing, they would produce asth ma. When hay fever occurs the pollen to which the victim is aller gic enters the nasal ducts, inflam ing them; the poison passes to the throat and bronchial tubes, and finally to the ends of the bronchial tracts, where swelling occurs. The hay fever victim need not even be living in the neighborhood of the plants whose pollen are at the bottom of his grief. To follow a hypothetical case, let us say a patch of ragweeds was blossoming in a vacant lot of some city. A high wind came, spiriting away the seeds, lifting them up over the city and carrying them a hundred or even two hundred miles from the place- they grew. At last as the wind dies they settle down, unhappi ly, right before an unfortunate soul who is allergic to ragweed pollen without ever having discovered it. He breathes them into his nose— thousands of them, for it would take 50,000 to cover the head of a pin. Test Skin With Pollen. Soon his nasal duct is inflamed and he begins to sneeze. Then the poison passes down through his throat and bronchial tubes and Aerial surveys, conducted thou sands of feet up, test the air for hay fever pollen. swelling occurs. His eyes redden, his nose itches “where he can’t get at it to scratch it,” and he begins to sniffle constantly. Perhaps our friend thinks he has a cold. But the doctor says, “Hay fever,” and tells him he had better find out what type of pollen is caus ing the trouble. The customary pro cedure is for the doctor to begin making skin sensitization tests. Lit tle scratches are made on the arm, and into each of these scratches one drop of pollen solution is placed; a different type of pollen is used on each scratch. The suf ferer is allergic to the type of*pollen placed in any scratch which red dens and swells. We’ll say our hypothetical victim In a patch of ragweed; what a place for a hay fever victim! across one in the street one day he approached it closely to examine the queer animal at length. He be gan to choke up and there was a se vere excretion of fluid from the lungs. Now he had played with cats at times, and he owned a little wire-haired fox terrier, but none of these had ever affected him so. It just turned out that he was allergic to horse hair. Actually, now that skin sensitiza tion tests are common, it has been found that many supposed hay fe ver sufferers did not have hay fe ver, but were allergic to their own dog or cat. You can even be aller gic to cigarette smoke. There is on record the case of a woman who was sensitive to that kind of smoke. Her husband smoked a pipe; when she played bridge at the home of friends who smoked cigarettes she would begin to sniffle and appear to have a cold. The doctor found what was troubling her and treated her for it. Now her companions could smoke Corn silk without bothering her. Seasonal asthma is frequently Here are what the pollens which make hay fever sufferers sneeze and sniffle look like. The models (magnified 3,500 times) which the young lady is holding are, left to right: Timothy hay, short ragweed, burweed, marsh elder and cottonwood. the following month the giant rag weed and as September starts it is the small or common ragweed. When Suffering Begins. How severe a victim’s symptoms are depends upon the amount of pol len that is filling the air he breathes as well as upon his susceptibility. The amount of pollen is likely to vary from day to day. It will be stirred up more, of course, when there is a good breeze, and it will tend to settle on a calm day. In some states at the height of the season it is not unusual to find 1,000 to 2,000 grains of pollen to the cubic yard of air. Pollen thins out in higher atmospheres, but aviators making scientific tests can find it a mile above the earth. It is when the air contains a pol len count of 25 to the cubic yard that the hay fever victim begins to suffer, so you can imagine his mis ery when the count reaches 2,000! According to medical scientists, you should not sit next to an open window on a train if you would avoid hay fever, although air-con ditioned cars are all right, for the pollen is filtered from the air in them. Nasal sprays will protect the nose in some measure from attack, and a little white vaseline around the opening of the nostrils will keep some of the pollen from getting in. Victims will find themselves more comfortable in a dark room where there are no drafts. Although ten persons in one hun dred suffer to some degree because they are allergic, only one of these ten, on an average, has hay fever. Various allergy victims suffer *in various ways. Sensitive to Horse Hair. Take the case of the city child who was accustomed enough to thousands of automobiles in his daily life, but seldom, if ever, laid eyes on a horse. Finally coming caused by house dust which mixes more actively through the air at the time of the year when the radi ators are turned oh for the first time. June flies cause asthma in the area about the Great Lakes; elsewhere butterflies or other in sects could provoke it; so can cer tain foods, such as berries, aspara gus or muskmelon. Almost any one knows somebody who simply can’t eat strawberries without get ting the hives. When a person begins to have reg ular attacks of asthma at a certain time of day or night, the doctor is likely to examine every article with which the victim regularly comes in contact at that time. If they oc cur at night, it might be the feath ers in the pillow, the hair in the bed mattress or the wool in the blankets. Boys Hate Haircuts, Anyway. Sometimes the doctor has to be a mighty clever detective to find them, however. There is the case of a small boy who had an asth matic attack every few weeks. After much observation it was found that in a general way the attacks cor responded to the time of his peri odic visits to the barber. It was eventually found that he was aller gic to hair—not to his own hair, or the hair of anyone in his family, but to the hair of anyone with whom he was not in daily contact! The Detroit News reports the case of a doctor in that city who suffered from asthma every Sunday. He finally discovered that he was al lergic to Sunday newspapers! No kidding. He was sensitive to cer tain aromas which the various inks gave forth; because of the much larger paper on Sunday, he spent a great deal more time with it. Te daily paper did not have enough time to affect him, but the Sunday one did. © Western Newspaper Union. Matching Lace Trims Silk Sheers By CHERIE NICHOLAS N O MATTER how much your taste and the general tenor of your life may call for practical tailored and sportsy-type clothes, none other than a really and truly dress-up dress will answer to oc casion. If anything more apropos can be found than either of the stunning models pictured in the way of dressiest-dress gowns that tune graciously to afternoon func tions, garden parties and such, pray tell where is it? The illustration presents exactly the type of dresses we have in mind. Here you see two gowns that are one hundred per cent voguish. They are modern up to the instant, and they are fascinating in regard to nicety of detail and they carry 'that air of sartorial elegance which every woman of discriminating taste covets. Make it yourself, have it made, or buy it ready made as you will, a dress of the type of eith er of these handsome frocks will give you endless satisfaction, for no matter what comes up in the way of social affairs unless extreme formality demands ultra full-dress attire, gowns such as pictured class their wearers as among the those- present in the best dressed group. This gesture of dying lace in exact match to the silk sheer it trims is proving a most exciting venture to designers in that it invites such free play of imagination. Then, too, the lace being the identical color enhances the dress without making it look too fussy or overdone—gives it the exclusive accent that many covet but few attain. Current collections include both dark and light sheers with match ing lace trims. A costume done in monotone color scheme of either the very fashionable spruce green or beetroot red would be outstand ing. Grays in the pastel shades qre greatly stressed, also rose-beige. As to swank styling the redingote theme prevails since it offers such excellent opportunity to introduce border effects with lace insertions after the manner shown in the charming dress to the left in the picture. This redingote gown is a most fetching style for the cocktail hour. It is made of gray silk mar quisette tastefully embellished with insets of matching lace. The huge red straw open-crowned hat worn with it plays up in dramatic con trast to the demure gray of the dress. It is flower-trimmed and has black streamers that tie under the chin. The other young woman seeks and finds midsummer coolness in a gown of beguiling rose-glow silk marquisette trimmed with insets of matching lace. The tiny self-fabric buttons add to the choiceness of this dress. Short sleeves and short gloves also do their bit toward giv ing smart style accent. The modish poke bonnet is a blue straw with violet and old rose velvet ribbon trim. © Western Newspaper Union. SMART SHEER WOOL Br CHERIE NICHOLAS The midseason dress problem when it is too warm to wear this and too cool to wear that need no longer set any woman into a worry and flurry for the answer has been found in the ;iew sheer wools that are the very thing to don at the first hint of autumn’s approach. Pictured is a stunning dress that will bridge from summer to fall perfectly. This distinctive tailored frock combines sheerest wool weave in attractive dusty rose coloring with chic accents of snowy pigue. Pleated-in sleeves and an intriguing pleated skirt convey early style messages. Note the high crown in her smart fall felt. As the new sea son advances crowns keep going higher and higher. MANY COLORS SEEN IN COATS FOR FALL Coats of many colors have been featured so extensively in Paris that they are expected to be early fall fashion successes in this coun try. All of these coats are very brief and are made of elegant fab rics or of ribbons, thus indicating their place with evening dresses. One French designer has intro duced a little jacket made of two- inch velvet ribbon sewn together in vertical strips, the ribbon combining shades of apple green, old blue, chamois, pink which has a blue cast and an orchid-purple. This is worn over a gown of black Chantilly lace. Another jacket is made of red and blue grosgrain ribbon interlaced to suggest a wov en pattern. Matching Headdress and Heels Offer Gala Touch Matching headdresses and heels are providing a gala touch to sim ple summer outfits worn by attrac tive young spectators at smart mid- western country clubs. Dusty pink frocks combined with beige turbans and ostrich skin pumps with beige- colored built-up heels are a popular combination. On many of the smart est white ensembles, effective ac cents are furnished by paisley print headbands and heels. Tailored Jersey Suit Is Made With Loose Jacket Chanel’s tailored suits in jerseys and wools are made with loose jack ets that are cut somewhat like box coats. Blouses are finished with round collars or jabots, which are worn outside the jackets. The short and comfortably full skirts often are trimmed with hip pockets. Parma Violet Undies Parma violet underwear! They are doing it in Paris, featuring the violet as well as the more delicate mauve and orchid tones in georgette and satin negligees. ““•“""''improveo—" UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for August 8 / GOD FEEDS A PEOPLE. •" I LESSON TEXT—Exodus 16:11-20; 1T:M.' GOLDEN TEXT—Every good gift and ev ery perfect gift is from above, end comctb from the Father. James 1:17. PRIMARY TOPIC—When God's People Were Hungry. JUNIOR TOPIC—God Feeding HU Peo ple. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— How God Provides for Our Needs. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— God’s Supply Adequate for a NaUon'e Need.: Israel, led by God, is on a jour* ney to the promised land. But to reach their goal they must pass through the wilderness. Not only are there weary miles to travel, but there are privations to be en dured. Life is like that. “People may be strong and hope ful at the beginning of a project, and most effusively and devoutly thankful at its close, but the diffi culty is to go manfully through the process. Israel was in the desert, and never were spoiled children more peevish, suspicious, and al together ill-behaved. If they could have stepped out of Egypt into Ca naan at once, probably they would have been as pious as most of us; 1 but there was the weary interval, the inhospitable wilderness! So it is in our life. Accept it as a solemn and instructive fact that life is a process . . . more than a beginning and an ending” (Joseph Parker). Note how elemental are man’s needs in the final analysis—bread and water. The very things we take almost for granted as we concern ourselves with life’s weighty inter ests and profound problems become, if lacking, the only things that have any real meaning. And who, is it that can provide them? No one but God Himself. I. Bread from Heaven. (Exod. 16:11-20). Observe first of all that this was a divine provision. There are re sponsibilities in life which we mayi bear—and must bear, but in the ultimate meeting of our real needs we must look to God. Secondly, we note that it was a daily provision. What forehanded! folk many of us are, and no doubt rightly so, for God puts no premium on improvidence. But, once again we must recognize, as did Israel in receiving the daily manna in the wilderness that ours is indeed a moment by moment existence. We plan bravely for the next decade or, the next generation, but as a matter of fact it can only come to pass “if the Lord will.” Read James 5:13-17. Finally, it was a limited pro vision—enough for the day and no more, except for a double portion on the sixth day, and none at all on the Sabbath. These provisions, were made clear to Israel, and yet there were those who attempted to. lay up for the morrow, and some even went out to seek manna on the Sabbath day. We marvel at their stubborn ob tuseness, but are we not often just like them. Some there are who are always expecting that the laws of both God and man should be set aside for them, but, mark it well, they ultimately come to grief. The spiritual application is obvious, and most serious. God has provided a way of redemption, and has made clear how man should and must relate himself to it. Folly it is to ignore God’s plan. H. A Rock in the Wilderness. (Exod. 17:3-6). “And the people thirsted”—for the daily manna was not enough—they must have water. Needy, yes, con stantly needy are God’s children. God always provides. There is a rock in the wilderness. But what, pleasure does a murmuring people find in a rock when they famish for water? It is God’s delightful custom; to meet our needs in unexpected ways and by means which we do not understand. Even our physical necessities come from unthought of sources. III. The Bread and the Water of Life. 1 Let us make certain that we do not miss the spiritual truth of our lesson which is revealed by Scrip ture itself. Paul speaks in I Corinth ians 10:1-4 of this very incident in the experience of Israel, and says that they “did all eat the same spiritual meat and did all drink the same spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.” See also John ; 4:14. Hungry and thirsty soul, you who are still unsatisfied after tasting all that life apart from Christ has to offer, will you not, just now, take him who is the living bread, and come to the Rock which flows with living water? How to Keep Quiet Character is revealed by small things; it is also hidden by small things. Speech often hides it, and again distorts it, for those who brand themselves by the pettiness of their conversation have some times unsuspected depths within; 1 but the surest revealer of character is silence—intelligent silence. Progress No man who feels the worth and solemnity of what is at stake will be careless as to his progress, j