Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1932, Page 95

THE SUND.Y STAR, WASHINGTON, Portrait of a handsome young executive after three days home with a cold, thinking (a) that doctors aren't much use anyway, (b) that probably there will be another cut in the salary before he gets back to the job, and (c) that there are a lot of friends who haven't been near him or called him on the phone to inquire. Man With a Hard Cold By W. E. Hill (Copyright, 1832, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) D. C—GRAVURE SFECTION—FEBRUARY 14, 1932 . “Dorothy says I took it the night we went to the pictures to see ‘Sinners in Heaven,’ because there was a draft on the back of my neck. But I think I took my cold from that Mrs. Simmons, who is always dropping in to see Dorothy. She was snuffling and wheezing and blowing her nose like anything the other night.” A man with a_hard cold loves to tell his friends over the tele- phone just how he caught it, what he is doing to cure it, z;d e:ill be intensely interested in any suggestions offered. “Listen, Marge, why did you go and take that man? Haven't you got sense enough to get all your men home so you can begin to throw off? You don't seem to retain a thing I tell you lately. An overconscientious wife will try to amuse and divert her husband while he is at home convalescing from a grippy cold. This is all the wrong idea, because the husband will not be amused or diverted for long and will grow peevish and irritable. A wife laboring under the cloud of a husband’s head cold should leave the house early in the day and should stay away till early evening. This will keep Dear Heart busy wondering where Precious can be, and between guessing whether she has been run over or has got into some ne- farious mischief his mind will be occupied and he will forget his cold for the time being. Many a boy who certainly ought to be home beneath the covers, with the soda and the aspirin by his bedside, believes in being Spartan and not giving in to a cold. This is praiseworthy, but not always so pleasant for his friends. (Look, will you, at this big do-or-die boy sneez- ing down a debutante’s back.) A man who stays away from his job several days, breaking up a cold, has the sensation of a long absence, and is both hurt and stunned on_his return to dis- cover that none of his co-workers seem to have missed him much. Some radio owners are partial to Rex Cole and his mountaineers, some to Russ Columbo or to Bing Crosby; but this boy with the terrible head cold is enjoying a swell talk on “The Cold in the Head and How to Cure It.” TR S i AR After all, it’s the bacheiors who know how to take care of themselves, especially when it's a cold in the head. This careful bachelor is taking aspirin, soda and water, quinine, and cod liver oil by turns, and is gargling with peroxide and what not, and he’s going to bed on top of a hot whisky lemonade. S “But, Arthur darling, you wanted me to go out, and you asked me to stop by at the Browns’ to get all the news.” A man with a bad head cold in_the process of being cured at home wants to be left alone and not fussed over. That is, if he is not left alone and not fussed over for too long an interval. Then he is apt to grow very restive and feels hurt and neglected and decides that no one cares whether he lives or dies. . This is what is known as the early stages, and shows a husband trying to steam the cold out of his system. The little wife has put him away in the guest rom with the tulip wall paper and the rep'roducpon early American bed. (He's listening to his mate telephoning a girl friend. “Oh, no,” she's saying, “Edward isn’t really sick. It’s just a hard cold, and when he gets a cold in the head he V= e L S|V