The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-05-31
Granting that there is 4 climate cure.

In Maine and Massachusetts and done
as much. Some advisers, are so irra-
tionalBas to sag that any changdis berfe-
fetal; but this can only be true of one
locality the unhealthiestgspot, in the
world, wherever that may be. All, the
mistaken kindness of those dear friends
who. feel that they have left duty un-
fulfilled if they do not ransack their
memories for some remedy or resort to
urge upon the invalid! If he goes to
Mexico, they assure him that Manitoba
is, just the place for him; if he takes
one medicine, they ask him why he
does not try some ether; and in thou
sand ways they vex the little comfort
and quiet which is possible to his wan
ing days, and then are almost offended
if he does not follow their counsel to
the exclusion of all others. In the
fullness of their health they may know
no more of consumption than sailor
knows of theology, while the sick man
is strangely lacking in intelligence if,
with his vital interest in the matter, he
has not learned all that books and ex-
perieuce can tsfeh hina but 90 spporte,
none are too ignorant to give advice.
The consumptive cannot too soon dis
abuse his mind sof the fanciful idea that
in some distant locality the veins of
earth.run with some peculiar ichor, or
her atmosphere is charged with some
lifeigiyingf force, to which lreis asstran-
ger at home. Air and water are made
up of pretty much the same constitu-
ents all the world over. Bad weather
as-well as good is found everywhere.
They have fogs in California, blizzards
in Minnesota, sudden changes of tenn
perature in Colorado, and chill wintry
rains on the tropical islands, 1 once
knew a champion of a health-resort to
be so beset and cornered by illustrations
of the unhealthfulness of his climate
that he was obliged to retreat behind
the apologetic remark: "Well, after
you cnces get; acclimated, this is no
worse than some other p1aces.m
A life of hunting and fishing is often.
prescribed for the patient who is too,
feeble toslift q rife; but the nilder pur-
suits of the botanist or mineralogist are
healthier and safer. In the excitement
Of. the chase he is liable to find his
strength suddenly fail him iri the depths
OF the forest, or the sun may PROSTATE
him or the storm overtake him when he
least expectsitssa sand If shesbe Jealous
fisherman he is sure sooner or later to
take am tirAfemediatel bath, from
which chill and congestion may ensue.
Besides, it is hardly consistent for the
man who. makes so much ado about his
own precious life to amuse himself by
taking the lives of other animals, which
are perhaps of equal importance in the
grand scheme Of naturea eyx Sayws
The act OF, roQghing, if is not the Ar
cadian picnic that the fancy paints it.
The process ndoes not belle its name.
Roughing it means to get lost from your
party in an unknown country; it means
hardship, privation and exposure such as
only the strongest can bear, illness with
out care and death without cerenony,
summer heat by day andywinter,s cold
by night with adequate protection from
neither, a bed SO thin that the invalid's s
protuberant bones feel every stone. be-
meath, a diet of potatoes soaked In
grease, bread half done, and coffee fast-
ing of the tin, served by a cook who
erst5was stal,le boy and the COMPANY
of coarse men, whose gross words are
particularly offensive to one whose soul
has been purified by pain. The invalid
can easily rough it at home by joining
partnership. With the first tramp who
comes alongsa 4a7nraYgs "a
AS long as comfort is. IS 4 not % { sacrificed "a
in the exchange, no one doubts that the
pine-clad mountains are better than the
malarial swamps, the country with its.
cloyer,blosssnas better. thar. the city
with its sewer-gas and decayihg pave
meats, Z the sIopen air betrert than the
close office.l and a bracing, atmosphere.
better than one which sdebiitates; but.
beyond this aSichangeaof climate is of,
doubtful efficacy to the consnnfptive.
AS, every section of otr country has its
mountains, fields and pure air. any Jour
ueyito distant lands is really unneees-!
sary. If the invalid has plenty of money,
prefers motion to. rest and excitement
to calm, has 40 aeafSof sudden apfostra-
ton or death by the way, is bound by
no home attachments, and finds one
clearinghouse as good as another, there
is no sufi oiept reason why hesheuld not
anhise himselfs daring the short Aime
that amusement is possible to him, by
testing the Ihelitss of one -sanitarisIm
after another and congratulating him
self on some Imaginary improvement
ins his eQnditiop. 1t lis. one of. the eure7
cdmpehses OF MS misfortune that his
heart grows snrdngK as his lungs get
weak, and, ike the ostrich, he blinds
his sight with thezsands of confidence
even while. the ,pitiless. pursuer is hard
upon him: This effectually disproves
the popular theory that pAucky deter
iniastion to live will bafflesany disease.
1Bdtif sympathy liz a necessity to the
patients nature. let him stay at home.
No amount Of ozone iii the atmosphere
will atone for the unfamiliar faces of a
strange land. A hygienic hotel is ike a
battlefield; the sympatAies4of the 81
teR9antss are scattered too widely over
the multitude to be felt by any one indi-l
viduals unless BIZ q lavish Systens of fees
he can secure the consultations of paid
mourner. Shodd he sbe poor in this.
worlds goods and rich independent re-
lstions, it 10 slsubtful If he hass asf6oaAl.
right to take the bread from the future
widow and orphans'in order to incur the