The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-31
For the Sunday Bulletin.
SOUTHERN FLORIDA AS A HEALTH
RESORT

DOO hEIhs' LOhLDA hD n llEhL IL
RESORT.
Editor Bulletin
AS there is much being said at this time
about Florida as health resort, send you
for publication brief article taken from
the Homeopathic Medical Investigator for
December 1t is from the pen of A. NJ.
Cushing, NJ, d., an eminent physician OF
Boston, and may prove interesting TO your
many readers Respectively,
l. 8. NJ.
Ifone leaves Boston in January, IN about
,hirty.six hours he will leave cold weather
behind him; and by the time he reaches
Savannah it will be warm and spling.lke
in the middle of the day, but cold at night.
Goingonyou arrive atJacksonyille and here
you will tndt warm in the mddleofthe day
but at nigbta fire is necessary for comfort
During the evening, night aud morning it
will be chilly and damp. This locality for
a healthy person answers very well, tut il
is no place for person with weak lungs.
Here you can get any kind Of fare you have
mind to pay for. At the Carlton, 81.
james, Windsor and many other houses
you will find as good fare as you will fl I'd.
| on any table at the north, and will have to
pay as much for it; but you do not get
| good water to drink. When one gets so
near really healthy place | advise them
by all means 10 go there: so You will take
tie "F DeBarry' or come other COCO
stream at 4 p. IN. and go up the St. Johns
river. At 10 p. In. the boat stops at Pilitka
for two hours and you go out to see the
| place and the most OF that is the Putnam
house This stop is made waiting for day.
light to guide the steamer past the parts OF
Lake George. AS you tide, hour after
| hour, under the branches of tropical for
ests you see large numbers of beautiful
birds, and all along evidences Of ciyiliza-
ton. AT about noon you arrive at Senford,
village containing one large hotel and
one or more small ones, few stores and
perhaps a hundred houses. AS Sanford is
no better place than Jacksonville or other
places on the St. Johns river, we take the
South Florida narrow guage railroad and
60 south ten miles to Longwood; situated
sixty feet higher than Sanford II you
wish you can 20 to Maitland or Orlando, a
little higher aud | think peasanter places
but as Altamonte is to be the objective
point for some of us in future we will hire
a team probably mules) to take US there
three miles, A railroad has been surveyed
through there. If you 60 to Lake Brantly
as we did, you will find a clear beautiful
lake. one mile wide aud from two to three
miles long. Remember il is mid winter,
but here the weather is delightful; perhaps
you will not see cloud for days, the sun
and moon go almost directly over your
head
When you 60 out you can leave your UNI
brella, over coat and coat at the house. In
the evening you can sit on the piazza as long
as you desire and not cough, sneeze or get
hoarse, If you have the catarrh in lis
worst form when you arrive here, you may
throw your handkerchief away in three
or four days afterwards and you will soon
forget that you ever had such an affection
You can 20 out on the lake which is as
clear as any mirror, and il you fall into the
water, get back into the boat and eisurely
row home again you will not even feel chilly
and If it is the evening 20 to bed and dry
your under.clothes. / did 1t, and did not get
cold or feel any inconvenience from it. The
days here are like the cearest, brightest
warmest Indian Summer days; the nights
are cool and 10 the evening an open fire OF
light pitch.pine makes you feel quite com
Portable and happy. There is always a
breeze summer and winter, and good re-
freshing sleep is certain. If your lungs are
weak, 70 and stand In the smoke Of the
burning pine s,umps. If you have dyspep'
sia, go TO the sulphur Springs near here and
drink the water. The natives say II will