The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-07-14
THE BAD BOYS PA.

George W. Peck, father of the Bad Boy, Is now in Denver, to which place he has gone to escape the trials and an- guishes and tribulations incident upon association with his graoeless offspring. The following spicy letter gives MT. peck's impressions of Colorado air:
 If there is one thing that Colorado brides herself on more than her gold and silver, it is the air, and the air of Colorado is most as thin as some of her silver mines. It is so thin that when a June sun shines upon it. the air fairly sisses," like dropping water on hot stove. The tender-foot comes here and walks around the streets for an hour in the sun, and be- cause he does not perspire as freely as he does al home in hot day. he thinks 1t is not so alfred hot, but he becomes weak. and be,ore he knows il he has no, am- bition enough to quarrel with his wife, and he wants 10 lay down and rest. and be let alone. It seems as though this would be splendid place for person who was wild and reckless to come and have the tuck taken out of him. The most savage person, after standing in the sun here for few hours. and breathing this air. would become as mild as a bread pill. and as easy to manage as possible. IL is impossible to describe the air on paper. bu, il does not stimulate person who hreathes it to get up and hump himself. It bears the same relation to Wisconsin atmosphere that rattle-stomach pop does to drink of bourbon whisky. A man might get drunk, or sick, on pop. he might exist on it ifhis stomach was weak, and blubber of wind was as good as a square meal to him, bu, if he wanted to feel like getting up and stirring things, he would pass by pop and take whisky. A person feels, after breathing this air, IS though couple of mouthfuls of lake Michigan breeze would make him in- ,oNica;ed with Joy. and his weak body would feel like calling somebody liar, just for exercise. The air here IS good for those with weak lungs. because II does not go into the lungs and search around for something to blow up, the way eastern air does. The Colorado air goes into the lungs in mild, apologetic sort of "a way, as though Il wanted to ask the pardon of Il tubercle, or hemorrhage scar. for com II Sott Ol iOdiS tfOuuu III the lungs, blushing and bashful, and backs out noiselessly, and hopes i, has not in conyenienced the breather, and goes ofi down an alley as though ashamed of having intruded. The Wisconsin air goes into ones lungs as though it was police man going into saloon to break up a row, and seems to say to the lungs, What is going on herc?n It hustles around, attends to business, braces up the man who owns the lungs, and goes out like a COW crowding through a garden gate, and leaves the gate open. Every thing is laid to the air here. If a man goes wrong, by robbing stranger, some body says 1t is the rare atmosphere that caused it. lfa person tells lie that would cause old star spangled American liars of the eastern states to bow their heads with envy. the apologizers of the liar will say it is the air he brea,hes that causes il. And perhaps il is so, for find that it is easier for me to lie here than it is at home. But joking aside, the air of Colorado IS as pure as air can be made. and while II is not as bracing as it is in our own Wisconsin, it is a Godsend 10 those who have weak lungs, and has saved many valuable life. and will save thousands more. Those who have seen dear friends come from the states. seem- ingly on their last legs, dying of con- sumption, and have seen the friends years afterwards. sound in health and tough as pine knots. as have seen, will bless Colorado air as long as they live Not all who come here 10 be cured. sue oeed, and many Is the man who comes too late, and is shipped home in a box. but nearly all who come here soon enough after the seeds of consumption be- gin 10 sprout. are immensely beneh,ted.