Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1910 — Be Cheerful and Avoid Cholera. [ARTICLE]

Be Cheerful and Avoid Cholera.

A cheerful disposition is held by some doctors to be the best protection against cholera. When this disease first visited Paris, in 1832, a notice was issued advising the inhabitants “to avoid, as far as possible, all occasions of melancholy and all painful emotions, and to seek plenty of distractions 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 and cases were thronged. The epidemic was in some quarters, treatr ed as a huge Joke, and plays and Bongs were written round it. Rochefort, the father of the brilliant journalist of today, wrote a play, “Le Cholera Morbus,” which proved a big success, and another production' on the same lines, “Parismalade,” also had a long run.