The concert cough should be added to the theatre cough, against which a campaign has begun in Paris, and the movement made world-wide. Spells of coughing which sweep audiences at plays and concerts are largely the result of suggestion, as almost any one can muster up a sufficient tickling of the throat during the winter season to justify some sort of noise. Physicians say that the greater part of such demonstrations can be suppressed without the slightest possibility of injury to any one. What is most needed is a conscious effort on the part of those tempted to follow the leader, who may not himself be able to control his throat muscles.

At several concerts this season it has been touch-and-go between the solo coughers and musicians; the Coughers' Chorus, with symphony accompaniment, has been heard frequently, but without any notable pleasure. And your public cougher doesn't know the use of the soft pedal--he coughs fortissimo and sostenuto. The world will be a far better place to live in if the International Anti-Coughing Union succeeds in its suggested purposes.