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Show YOUR SNEEZE MAY NOT BEFROM COLD Draft May Have Nothing to Do With the Matter-Million Matter-Million Particles. TT FTITV vnn tmova If la rf 1 I TTTTHEN you sneeze It Is not al yy wa'8 a 8en you are taking cold. That is the opinion of physicians working on public health problems in the laet few years. Most men and women when they feel that tickling in the nose or throat Immediately Im-mediately look for the nearest door or window, convinced that they are sitting sit-ting In a draft However, the draft, if there Is one, may have nothing to do with the matter mat-ter at all, physicians say. The unhappy un-happy one merely has inhaled a few million or so dust particles. That may be true particularly of our cities where enough dust floats in the atmosphere In one year to build a cone-shaped mountain 1,500 feet high, with a five-mile diameter. Some statistician has figured it out that l f the dust that hovers above American cities w?re fathered in one place, say Manhattan Island, tlat dusl would be piled up on the streets of Manhattan to the depth of 21 feet, "lfu one Is likely to sneeze while walking along a country road, though not Q.ufte as likely aa in the city. Here the dust that is raised usually conies from dirt or gravel roads. There Is, however, less likelihood of this today than ever before as highway officiate now have at their command many methods for "binding" the top cover, particularly the use of such chemicals as calcium chloride, considered by engineers en-gineers the best of dust layers. j |