Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-18
HEALTHFUL J CLIMATE.
The Views of st. Louis Editor Upon st.
Paul and Vicinity ~ Health Resort.

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The Views of st. Louis Editor Upon st.
Paul and Vicinity ~ a Health Resort.
Correspondence of the st. Louis Republican.
ST. PAUL, Sept. 8.-Were it possible to
reproduce on paper the impressions OF
summers ramble about this section of
the continent, a pen picture of exceeding
beauty and rare interest might be placed
before the reader dwelling in distant lati-
tudes and longitudes. Of course the in
telllgent public is long since familiar
with the names of the chief places of
public resort in Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin, and the charms of climate, scenery
and sports enjoyed here have been dwelt
upon for years by letter writers and trav-
elers. But all has not been told. Some
thing new and striking presents itself to
each new visitor. Original investigation
and research are continually gOin on. The
country is new and many sections of it
are sparsely settled. Wonders and at
fractions before unknown or unappre-
ciated are constantly being brought to the
attention of the gaping stranger by the
proud discoverer, and fresh charms and
vealed and extolled.
THE SUMMER PILGRIMAGE
to the health and pleasure resorts of
Eastern and Northern Minnesota and
Western and Northern Wisconsin has
become permanent source of revenue to
the residents of these sections, and-let
it be freely conceded-is Of correspond
ing advantage to the visitors. The latter
are principally from the South, fully one
half-perhaps three fourths-of them be-
ing from the Lower Mississippi valley.
The principal attraction, OF course,
is the agreeable temperature of the
atmosphere, at a time when the weather
| further south is excessively warm and
| unpleasant. Next is the purity of the air
and it's invigorating effect upon the
enervated system of the Southron or even
the New Highlander. A majority of the
visitors come for pleasure and rest, not
considering themselves invalids; but
many sick people may be seen around the
lakes and various mineral springs. 1t
appears to have become the fashion of
southern and eastern physicians to send
their consumptive patients (of certain
classification to. Minnesota, and the
practice, which is apparently becoming
more wide spread, seems to be fully
justified by the results. Marvellous
stories are told of living skeletons
brought here on stretchers leaping
from their beds within a few days or
weeks, performing wonderous feats of
physical endurance, rowing, walking,
| hunting, fishing, etc, meanwhile devour-
ing vast quantities of bread, beef, pota-
toes, corn, cabbage and similar delicacies.
Of couse, due allowance must be made
for the interested motives from which
these ridiculous exaggerations generally
spring; but the searcher after restored
health must guard against allowing his
disgust at these gross palpable yarns to
obscure the real merits and advantages
of the situation. If there is any cure,
or, rather, any permanent check for or
healing of clearly defined phthisical
disease, it lies in
CLIMATIC CHANGE,
with certain auxillaries in the way of
physical employment, outdoor exercise,
and in some instances tonic administer
| ed through the stomach. This appears to
| be the opinion of nearly all competent
physicians, and the accuracy of the con-
clusion may be seen in process Of practi-
cal demonstration throughout this locality
every summer. The writer hereof having
been deeply interested and pretty keen
observer, and having reaped inculculable
benefit from three months residence
herebouts, feels impelled to give his eXpe-
rience to the public, in the hope that the
knowledge may be Of advantage to others
afflicted as he was
l came north early in June, bringing
with me severe cough, a stubborn sore
throat and an affection" of the left lung
pronounced consumption by an eminent
St. Louis practitioner. My pulse ranged
from 80 to 10, temperature about LOG
and respiration two measures above nor
NAL My entire system had been debili-
tated and my natural weight of $50 re-
duced to III by years of close confine-
ment at desk work, inhalation of air
made impure in quality and irregular in
temperature by steam heating apparatus,
neglect of physical exercise, excessive
smoking and other shamful abuse of a con-
stitution originally sound rugged and free
of hereditary ailment. l had tried a
moths rest at a pleasant village with
fifty Fmiles of the city. 1t was I'M
iavaillng. 1 needed a change IN latitude.
l started north, as above mentioned.
Four weeks at Lake Minnetonka relieved
me of my cough, increased my weight
eight pounds, lowered my pulse to $3.50,
improved the tones of my voice mat eIi-
ally, and entirely
| DIsPELLED THE EXTREME LANGUOR,
which for several months had wofully
depressed me- Then | went over to the
higher, wilder and more romantic region
of the st. Croix river, the dividing line
between Minnesota and Wisconsin for a
considerable distance. A month on the
banks of that picturesque, romantic
stream added about eight pounds
flesh more to my avoirdupois and
improved all other symptoms to that ex-
tent that l now consider myself well
man-that is, for the time being
Whether or not, shall remain in my
present bettered condition depends upon
several things. But think have shown
that in my case consumption has been
checked and the lung and throat healed.
| hope by proper precautions to prevent
future trouble. ~
But my experience has not been that
of every consumptive who has come up
here this season. Many Of these visitors
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