CLIMATE AND


saddle-horse
fishing offer
and the eve
the majestic
roads and b
are always
which some
lazy person
will shut h
mate; and
exercise rec
light of the


HEALTH.


s are excellent), walking, boating, hunting, and
, in Florida particularly, diversified recreation,
rgreen forests of live-oak and magnolia, or of
long-leaved pine, furnish attractive meandering
ridle-paths. Our gardens, too, if properly kept,
attractive, and there is no day in the year in
flower may not be gathered. That must be a
indeed, who, having the strength to get out,
imbelf up in the house in such a charming cli-
if one, by reason of weakness, can not take the
ommended, let him at least bask in the glorious
Southern skies, which floods the broad veranda


of every Southern house and penetrates even the
shaded garden-walk.
 "Another mistake very generally made by invalid
spend the winter in the South is in returning to the
too early in the spring. When the weather begins t
pretty warm here, and they see the peas in bloom i
garden, and the Irish potatoes up and growing, the
impatient to be at home; but at home the peas are s
the seed-box, and the potatoes are safe only in the c
The cold winds and rains, or the snow and sleet, of a N
ern March are terribly trying to one who has spen
winter in a warm climate, and even April is often fa
chilly for the invalid's health and comfort.
 With those who are afflicted with diseases of the
and bronchial tubes, or are strongly predisposed to corn
tion, the best and only safe way is to come here to
and they must not wait too long before making up
minds and putting their good resolutions into practice.
lays are generally dangerous. In all cases like these
are fatal.
 "' But the summers are so hot, and malarial fever


most

s who
North
;o get
n the
y get
till in
cellar.
Forth-
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r too

lungs
sump-
stay ;
their
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prevalent and dangerous,' the reader may say. The re-
mark suggests another point. Here are two more popular
errors, and they are the complements of those noted in
another part of this article. The winter climate is supposed
to be uniformly warm and delightful, and to possess some
mysterious, hidden healing virtue. Neither of these as-
sumptions is correct. There are always brief periods in
winter, even in Florida, in which the weather is anything
but lovely, and, as for the mysterious hygienic influences


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