Show What Causes Us to i Cough C Co u h in cn Church C bur ch 0 t While at church and especially dur during d' d ing lUG a 0 sermon Pimon when everybody Is IS' t awfully careful not nOl 10 to 1 neighbor n t or the congregation gation nothing Is more moe annoying lh than 1 to b be seized by bya a coughing spell pell The rho subject has lian recently been token up lip h by a t prominent 1 I medical authority who says ays Persons ng who will sit all out nut a play or orlI lI listen t n in t tin Inn interesting conversation without l cl coughing couching 1 seem to he be seized n as soon oon as us they compose themselves to hear hem a sermon f with distressing irritation i tion of or the windpipe that con can be e relieved re re- on only by v violent nt and continued I coughing I The affection l is contagious Ious spread spread- spreadIng t inS Ing from Slot sent to seat neat 9 at one cough answering an an another other till the church Is b as twit of or nol noise nole us as Iro Islan island t. t Aa t Aai i ar aras as n. ne IC I known Is know the theo etiology of this titis disease hns lens not received al nl from flom tl the scientific gator Is T it due to sudden changes of ot temperature tem lcm In the sacred edifice lInce or to the Iho Inroads of malign mall drafts It nay may be he granted that th the eloquence of some preachers has hus a chilling effect while that of or others i lit is of or n a windy character neither of f these things however can enn be bc accepted as a 0 vera vera cal cau nWe n. n aWe a. a We note with Interest that tho the problem has hns been b el attached from another another an an- other Side by a n a scientist I t who has hns studied the epidemic n as It occurs in theatres He lie has satisfied himself himself- that there at ot least t. t the coughing which times sometimes goes 0 8 fa fat far I to spoil th tho thA performance is due to reflex Irritation propagated r from flom the ear car to the larynx The source of the irritation Uon according according ac oc cording to him Is to In the strain on the auditory apparatus induced Jn- Jn 1 l b by the effort to hear what is said Pahl on the stage stage- This suggests that thaL actors of the tho present In day do not know how to hilts I their voices JI Ii if would woul he be a n comfort to preachers J If the church cough cou h could I also be e p explained b by listening 11 it i Ix to lo bo be feared however c that a solution of th the riddle is IJ rather to In b be found In what Falstaff calls can the disease of not Ihn listening th the malady of or not marking It is 18 1 related that once upon a n. time when an author was wu reading n a new play Ia before h fore the members of or tho the Comedic FranCo IFf an actress full asleep When the thC company were expressing ex cx- x pressing the their t various opinions the thc theauthor theauthor author maliciously insisted on having that of the sleeping beauty on th the ground that the nUt attention Rh he she had given to it would mald her heV opinion especially valuable The Tho reply was waR disconcertingly to th the point point- Sir Sh sleep is 18 an opinion In in It inay ay be said that cou coughing Is an opInion At n. n full dress ho I rehearsal rehearsal rehearsal-of of or a n new nev l play pIny i by the audience which i I had hud applauded d the first OrAL act act be began egan an to h in the th middle of he the second second The n author at al once exclaimed exclaimed- They Th cough oll h I J al 11 1 ihU w. w ys thought I that scene war vas fro iro long long- Pi P s might mi-h mi 11 1 some 0 irn r 1 I I t i-t 1 I t v I Ii gill front I h h.- h. ue h. h n I 1 1 t tt t- t t tion i n. n |