Evening star. [volume], April 18, 1948, Page 4, Image 85

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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A LOW BAROMETER, Dr. Petersen finds, means more headaches, suicides, accidents and lost umbrellas
SPRING FEVER
CAN RE
DANGEROUS
by Paula Philips
Drawing by Howard Hillard
Don’t laugh off that logy feeling.
Meteorobiology, a brand-new kind
of science, is proving that weather
drastically affects your whole life
Some morning about the middle of April you wake up feeling
as if you haven’t slept at all. As you sit down to breakfast
you notice that your wife has opened the windows and balmy
breezes begin to tantalize your nostrils with the odor of new
grass. Without thinking you put salt in your coffee and sugar
on the eggs — but you’re barely conscious of the mistake.
You’re busy with visions of fishing in a trout-stocked stream,
lolling on a sun-baked beach and canoeing in the moonlight.
You get to the office half an hour late and spend the next
few hours doodling on your appointment book. You try to
work, but the reins that generally control your mind have
become limp and useless and you can’t keep your thoughts
in line. At lunch you decide you might as well give the whole
thing up as a bad job. Whether you go back to your desk or
take the afternoon off to walk in the park, you’ll probably
accomplish the same amount of work.
By now you suspect what’s wrong with you. You’re having
your annual bout with Spring Fever. It won’t do you any
good to look for hidden psychological causes because in this
case the obvious explanation is the accurate one. So blame
your Spring Fever on the weather.
According to the newly defined science called ‘'meteoro
biology,’’ the weather is at the root of a lot of things that
TW—4-18-48