The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-07-22
TEE HEALTHFUL ENJOYABLE CLIMATE OF
LAKE SUPERIOR.

TIE HEAITHFUL ENJOYABLE CLIMATE OF
LAKE SUPERIOR.
The climate Of this region is strangely
misunderstood by those who live three OF
four hundred miles further south. Almost
the first thing said By strangers to our resi-
dents when travelling ii the lower Iatitudes,
Is something in reference to the coldness OF
the weather in the Lake Superior country.
They talk 80 Us as Ii we had just arrived
from Greenland, or Hu9son's bay; and it
gives our people no little amusement to
hear themselves pitied as sufferers by those
who rather deserve or pity, for it is a fact
well known here, that owing to the dryness
Of the atmosphere IL this latitude, there is
less suffering experienced at twenty degrees
below zero, than is felt at zero, III more
soutilerly latitGdes where the climate is
more damp
And when the thermometer occasionally
drops 10 twenty below zero in Chicago Or
Louisville, no amount Of clothing can pro
tect The shiyering inhabitant Of those local
itieS, from the insinUating piercing power
Of the raw cold air. Travel is then prao-
t1cally suspended. The chilly suffering
Communities of those damp attitudes, hover
III! day long about their stoves, and regis
tars, while at that very time, with the cold
at Tie same degree, the Inhabitants of St.
2a;,i and Minneapolis, of Superior, Duluth,
bayfield, and Marquette, are cut OF doors as
usual, the men at their daily ayocations,
the ladies visiting or shopping. The Whole
secret of The matter is that in this dry eli
mate, thick winter clothing viii protect one
against tho cold, while ia the damp climate
spoken OF, thick winter clothing will not
protect against the cold.
Then III the suIumer there are months OF
hot weather IN the latitude Of New Y ork,
when one can only exist, enduring, as best
he may the broiiing, roasting days, and
swelteriAg, sy,tlEsocating nights. VIII here
our summers are mild and temperate.
Some hot days indeed, az one last week at
98 degrees III the shade, but there are few
nights when il is too hot to sleep IN COM
fort The great lake in our neighborhood, |
maintains an eGuable temperature thatI
warns our winters and tempers the heats
Of summer. Taking The year round, there
2re nowhere, more days OF enjoyable and
beautiful weather, than III the latitude oil
Lake Superior. While the inhabitant of
less favored latitudes passes " hole winters
in seeing a gray gloomy sky above, and a
black muddy surface on the earth beneath,
with this chcerless landscape rarely reiieV-
1d by bright day, or white mantle on the
ground, the favored ;nhabitant Of the Lake
Superior region passes month after month
Of winter under sky OF sunlit blue, and
amid landscape white and sparkling with
SHOWS.
This cheerful and bright character Of the
weather in winter, with not only its endura-
bleness, but It's enjoyabloness, together with
the long beautiful days Of our mild sum
,ners where the rose Of twilight st morn
and even long mingles with the darkness,
and the breezy nights invite deep sleep,
and where the whole atmosphere is redoient
of the evergreen forests, and the pure wa
ters Of transparent Lake Superior-all these
ioy-giying aud health giving attributes
make this latitude the Paradise Of the in
valid, and q very Fountain ofyouth. Health
alone is q sufficient reason for the moving
TO this quarter of hundreds Of thousands.
Many a man who has paid away thousands
of dollars in doctoring his family, and then
been taken away in middle life himself,
might have saved his money and lis life,
by coming at an early day to Lake Supe
rior.
What are the richest soil on the globe,
and all the luxuries of the tropics in com
parison with the sound health and long life
promised by our wholesome air, lovely
days and refreshing nights? One living
here can find soil fertile enough to bring
him q competence, and can save enough
from doctors bills to purchase every luxu-
nv. and of this more anon; but in the mean
time we urge upon every man IN the Union
who regards health as the foundation Of all
hfe's enjoyment, to lose 10 time in settling
in the Lake Superior country.
4 REMARKABLE depression Of the waters
of Lake SuDeFi0r at the eastern extremity