Show TAKING DESPERATE CHANCES the sort of ni risks iks people run every day without getting seared why dont more people die of pneumonia quick consumption and other lung trembles that is what I 1 think every night in upper broadway there youell you 11 ll see a decoro or two of men coming butof ont of su permeated per heated theaters between the acts to stand in unprotected full fall dress aroun around d the cold and drafty lobbies or out on the sidewalk for a chat or a smoke see them at the madison square garden square acres of white shirt front sitting for hours in an atmosphere su suggestive 4 cestive ge stive of overcoats they pour out of clubhouses club houses and hot restaurants atall at all times or of the night often in a dripping drippin perspiration from exercise and with careless or no provision against the evils of a sudden change of temperature you can meet them on broadway with topcoats thrown wide open and the chest exposed from necktie to waistband yet it is only now and then that we know or of a man who was out oat around town in apparently good health the day before yesterday who is a corpse today there are more than a thousand men taking such much desperate risks every night during the fashionable season in new york it if bod v were ere to tell one of these that he was running a greater risk of sudden death dall than if he were going into the heat of an ordinary battle he would probably langh at you yon yet it would be t the lid solemn truth if he were a soldier going into action it would be with blan blanched clied face and trembling knees and silent prayer whereas it is now with careless mien and flippant tongue and spirited deviltry that he dares the awful specter of death if he were confined to his room with a mortal disease he would be surrounded by iris his sorrowing family and anxious friends and his will would have been en made and duly witnessed but being bein 9 blessed with reasonable health and manly strength and the sublime confidence of ignorance he plunges into the danger wit honta thought mon on his part or a qualm of conscience on their part lungs are not made of chilled steel yet tet it is wonderful what they are daily and nightly subjected to and how much they will stand sometimes you must offen feel that they really are practically y indestructible they are put to such severe tests and with so little concern Poi pondering dering upon this the faces of scores of personal friends and acquaintances who fell in the prime of manhood aln men of stalwart frame and superb muscular energy rise before us as in memory while the way is strewn with physical wrecks of the mortally wounded victims of fashion new york herald at |