Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-04
Going South for the Winter.

| AS COlu We1Lner dppIOdCucS IAc pcT :
sons who contemplate for the first time a
journey soutwafd a few practical hints
from the experience of others is eagerly
sought after, to which l can personally
testify.
Want of health has forced me to spend
several winters IN a warm climate, but
always with uncertain results. l have
tried New Orleans, Thomasville in south
ern Georgia, and the south of Italy, yet
at this moment am incapable of advis-
ing any one for or against the propriety,
advantage or disadvantage of such q
move There are always, beside expense,
great discomforts and privations to be
encountered for the privilege of living q
very monotonous life in a soft climate
and open air.
do not deny that to large class of
overworked people, whether mentally or
| physically,a season of such life is invalu-
able, but this is a class with such huge
stock Of self-conceit and reliance upon
their own knowledge, that they seldom
yield to means for recuperatl n until it
is too late to repair their broken down
systems, but die out leaving the fruit of
a labOrious and successful life for the
enjoyment of their successors. These votar-
les of Plutus usually perish at the foot Of
his shrine. But few are met at places of
rest and recuperation before they are dis
qualified for business.
| About the propriety OF going south
each invalid must decide for himself
| Honestly, any experience will allow me
neither to encourage or discourage. know
lady of this city whe, year ago the ads
vising physician asserted would scarcely
| be able to reach Townsville, where she
spent tive winters, and is in blooming
health to-day. On the other hand, have
seen numbers come in, capable of riding,
to take regular meals and exercise, sent
home in few months, by express, in
casket.
From my observations | hold that
physician takes upon himself an unnec-
essary responsibility, when advising
patient to leave home comforts, and
friends where serious organic disease is
developed in the system. In nervous
prostration and general debility the case
is different. He knows these patients,
pursuing a judieiOus course, will rally
and improve with change of climate,
scenery, exercise, good, wholesome diet,
and absence from care
A physician who sends an Invalid to a
district infected with malaria commits
an objectionable blunder. If the system
becomes impregnated with the poison, it
may entail years of deranged health,
heightened out to miserable death. l
know whereof [ speak.
A few words regarding the places l
have some practical knowledge of. Sup
posing Sorenta or Amalf, in the south of
Italy, among the most charming spots in
the world, with their rich orange and
lemon groves covering the plains the
snow capped mountains in the rear, with
| the blue Mediterranean sea in front to
be out of the question, and Santa Bar
| bara too distant We will look higher
| home. New Orleans is lively and pleas
ant place, but being surrounded by water
| with saturated soil, it is both damp and
badly drained. But for this drawback it
would be charming place for winter
| residence. AS it is l prefer it to Rome.
| Aiken, in South Carolina, is enjoyed by
many, but not such as are in search of
| uniform warm weather. At times in
mid winter it is very cold and clustering.
| The great concourse of invalids make
their way to Florida. From what could
learn last winter the mortality
was frightful. But still poor enfeebled
humanity, abandoned by the home ply
stefan, still flock there, encouraged by
some ray of hope. In the aggregate of
all who visit there, whether the prepon-
derance is for good or evil, am not pre-
| pared to state. My observations, limited
| to few years experience, is sufficient
| authority, and leaves me in such state
of uncertainty that l could not advise a
consumptive pro or cen. Florida is damp,
| foggy, and afflicted with malaria, unless
invalids 60 long distance up the St.
Johns river to the sand plains in the in
terror, which is quiet and stupid, but
| much safer.
Townsville, south Georgia, is thirty
| miles from the Gulf, sufficiently inland to
| escape the cold winds from the Atlantic,
which are broken by endless pine forests,
and is therefore more uniform in temper
| ature. 1t has porous soil, perfect drain
age in every direction, excellently kept
clean streets, and almost entirely exempt
| from chills and fever would accept it
| as sanitary resort as readily as any place
| know in America or Europe, but for
it's want of anything to divert the mind.
True, there are plenty of good drives and
fine forests within walking distance, but
this, with the hotel life at the Mitchell
house, large and elegant structure well
kept and managed, is all the diversion
the place affords. Boarding houses, of
which there are many, are Indifferent,
| with extravagant prices. Provisions are
brought from the north to supply the ho
tel, which boarding houses are unable to
procure.
Many who go to brownsville for the
sake of economy, seek home on planta-
lions, which they find reasonable and
agreeable, with large airy rooms, and
| where with little skill with the gun,
they can find an ABUNDANT supply of
game, quail, rabbits, ETC., which abound
in all directions. Yours, etc., M.
Indignation a st. Louis.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 2.-The action of Judge
LaughliD, of the criminal court, yesterday
IN the case of Michael j. Reilly, on trial for
the murder of Alfred C. Hatch, last spring,
has been pretty roughly criticized today by