Show be cheerful and avoid cholera A cheerful disposition Is held by some doctors to be the best protection against cb cholera olera when this disease 2 first visited parts paris in 1832 a notice was issued adels ig the inhabitants to avold avoid as far as possible all occasions of melancholy and all painful emotions and to seek plenty of distractions tr and amusements those with a bright and happy temperament are not likely to be stricken down this advice was largely followed and even when cholera was claiming over a thousand weekly victims the theaters anti and cafes were thronged thron ged the epidemic was in some quarters treated its as a huge loke joke and plays and songs were written round it rochefort the father of the brilliant journalist of today wrote a play le cholera lf orbus which proved a big success and another production on the same lines Paris malade L iso liso had a wg g run |