SEEK THE TRUTH IN PRIVATE HOMES.


Jacksonville,


where


friends


acquaintances


have


met unexpectedly.


Now and then one finds some dis-


satisfied or discontented mortals, who


have


been


a very short time in Florida, hurrying back North as


some


pestilence were behind them.


In such cases


something


following


conversation


may


heard:
 "Why, my dear sir, you are wild to return North


so early.


Your family, if not yourself, will suffer in


consequence if


you go


North before the 1st of May.


The cold, raw days, of which we always have so many


at the North


after the 20th-of May, will be very


injurious."
 Oh, I've made up my mind that coming to Florida
for health is all nonsense."


" But,"


interrupts his friend,


here long enough to
try or climate."


haven't


know anything about this


been
coun-


"Well, I


think


by spending


a day or two


in each of the best hotels, or


a week or two traveling


in steamer or railroad, one can form a


pretty correct


idea of


the country and


I, for one, have had all


the character of the climate.
the experience I care for. If


this is considered a climate to grow strong and sound
in, or the people one meets are specimens of the effect
of the climate upon the constitution, then Heaven help
us! I never saw so many miserable, sallow, sickly,


consumptive-looking


people


in the


same


length


time in my life as I have in the short time I have been


in Florida.


I am sick of the sights I see here.


the beauty-and I concede that there is a great deal-