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Show HIP CAUtyS PC3PONDENOY. H AwfaJ forabodlnsa. Memorial, Ittmorao H and lltnret That II airless. H Influenza Is not so bad In Itself, It Is the awful forebodings and memories j and remprse snd regret that It brings H with It and leaves behind It, that mako H It a mora dread affliction than dyspep- H sla or toothache, says the New York iH Commercial Advertiser. All diseases (Hssawsai do not mako every ono unhappy, and MK somo even moke the victims feel Jocn- Jflsaffi lar as, for Instance, mumps, when It ImmA attacks a grown person. Ilut Infiuen- flHR za sprrada a blanket of gloom over Ig-avaH the victim nnd every ono who comes B In contact with .him. Hearing his Ills LaWaH with angelic meekness Is not a part jgB of the Influenza victim's program He gawaWawM Is as cross as he Is miserable, and H feeling that his friends will have only M a short tlmo to bear with him, he takes B no pains to htdo his bnd humor and H dissatisfaction with the world In gen- H era! In the caso of an abnormally H nmlablo person, Influenza hat been H known to cause silent nnd hopeless H melancholy without rounoss and sur- H ly pessimism; but norma.1 beings, even H of ordlnnry courage and conilderatlon H when well, ln tho majority of cases H map and bark anil growl and groan as H they would never dream of doing It H HI with pneumonia or typhoid or any H other rcatonable malady. H A doctor tells n story of a young; H woman whoa few da) s beforo tho dato H set for her wedding was seized by tha H "McCartney microbe." She was dosed H and nursed, but did not go to bed, as H her caso did not seem serious, and sho H was up to her eyes In her wedding; H preparations. She apparently Im- H proved, but on tho morning of her B wedding n servant rnmo flying to tho H physician's home, begging htm to M "come to tee Mis Alice, who had gone H out of her mind." Ha found that H young1 woman up nnd dressed and as H self possessed ns usual, but quite firm H ln a decision that sho would not marry M at 12 o'clock or st any other hour or H day. Bho had been thinking over her H prospective wedding, she said, and sbo H really didn't think she cared to marry. M In vain did her father and mother, her M sisters and even n big voiced brother M (who wnt to be the best man for tbo lM tint time In hit Ufa nnd objected to n M postponement of the ceremony) entreat M her to tell them why she bad cotno to H auch a sudden resolution. Tho doctor LH managed to shake her stubborn refusal sH to say what was the matter, but be M yond snjlng that "Charlie wa- tin- H worthy of her" she explained nothing. H Finally, as n last resource, her wed- H ding dress was brought out, and ths H dltsolved In tears, and then Charllo H was sent for. The wedding took placo H at 12, and to no one but tbo family H nnd tbe doctor know how very nearly H It came to not taking placo nt all. Tbo H mystery was very simple. Alice bad H been wakeful and had spent tho night H conjuring up the pleasant possibilities JM of Charlie's past and future, coming to H tho conclusion that (be could not pos- H tlbly msrry tuch n reprobate. Ot H courto his misdeeds were only Imngln- H nry, but this story It not. H |