The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1884-03-06
TREATING or HEAlTH
81 E r. swITzER, N. D.

the Safe Of Kansas and within the
Golden Belt. "-Severing his eonnec-
tlons with his Eastern where
shall / locate Is q question not easily
answered and one that has kept many
man balancing on thee ragged edge"
for q longer period than Il
took to ask himself the question. He
has his own and purely personal in
teresis to consider, snd these too OF q
varied and mixed kind. His material
interests, increase OF wealth, condition
intellectual and moral ad-
and wellare-all these enter
into the problem and render its sOlu-
ton more difficult. The interest Of
wives and children enter also into the
but as their welfare differs
not materially from his own, this
can scarcely be considered a. a COM
plication. AS FAR as the life Of a man
goes not all Of the above interests are
OF equal importance Whether
wealth becomes blessing OF a curse,
will depend upon the requirement
and the use that Is made Of ii. We
may know how TO enjoy it but not be
able TO enjoy it. First Of all material
blessings rank Health" Give a
man acres beyond computation and
add TO this dollars enough to drive
wild his mathematics, and then SUI
peradd a twinge Of Neuralgia or Of
0out, a stroke Of Paralysis, or the
horrors Of Dyspespia and you have
robbed him OF the Rapture Of life.
Rfectually robbed him. Whether ne
dwells in palace OF in hut, the main
talnance Of health IL dependent very
much on personal habit and usage, and
after this on climate and hygenie sur
roundIngs. Personal seton can be
controlled as well in one place as an
other. The laws Of health requiring
personal effort in their application
can be observed in the West as In the
East, and so remains chiefly, the con-
sideration Of climate, soil, drainage,
circulation Of air, electrical conditions
&C., as they may affect health or pre-
dispose disease. I have an idea that
In selectinga place to live, Il Is desir-
able to avoid extremes. Neither
Greenland nor the tropics furnish the
best conditions Of healthy life. The
most fully rounded existence from
any stand point dwells neither under
the Arctic circle nor the Equator.
But we hold It dwells anywhere, with
in the boundaries Of the Temperate
zone. Neither Equator heat nor
Arctic frigidity are favorable to the
highest human development We
thought the Golden Belt about right,
and 30 we stuck our stake. Missouri,
Kansas, and Kentucky are located to
beat the world in the production Of
men and mules Neither a frog pond
nor Pixies Peak are situated for the
production Of the highest condition Of
health. The one has too much mois-
ture, the other not enough The or
eanism developing In the conditions
Of Pixies Peak, has q nervous system
too highly wrought grows gray be
fore its time-is 3 lean and hungry
Cassius". The frog pond condition
produces a'HOllandeF, phlegmatie and
adipOse, and too cOntented Tor revO-
luton or change.
Kansas Is mel Tier q frog pond nor
mountain peal, but Is midway between
the ocean level snd Rocky back
bone oil the continent. She on ght moi
from her lOcotion transform q man
either into a web-foOted Hollander
nor shrivel him into 6 mummy. II Is
a physiological fact, that moderately
cold climates when they go below
freezing point at least two months Oui
Of the year, are not only favorable "a
vigorous frameWorks, but preserve
the energy and industry Of the racS
and keep Il unimpaired in the gener-
atlons TO come San Diego is a:
pleasant q place a. 3 man 10 the lasI
stage Of consumption can lnd, In
which to cough himself out Of THU
world and int the next, but It is NJ
place In which TO live and develop {
vigorous manhood. The sub-tropical
climate Of Southern California lie de-
structlve Of al that energy that w
specially designate as AnglO-Saxon
To some Il may be 9 matter Of indlf
ference, but a. for msif Anglo-AmeF
lean energy In my children and Fae'
IL 10 dwlndle under the Influence o
climate into spanlsh-American indO
lence, should rather such olspFinl
were fathoms deep beneath the sunny
sea. A land where the mercury goe
not below zero, b good enough %
some invalIds but not good enOugl
for any well man. A had found &c
cordlng to my theories that the" land
Of Promise dismounted from the
train, halted az The city Of Sallna, 3
ascertain II I could, how near thing
were borne out By facts. had beel
ashore bat q little while when founl
q man who seemed 10 be devoid c
ideas but one mas Of fostering fast
In seeking information I always avoid
theorists. They are toe apt 10 war;
facts to prove ihsiF theories and are 9
ell men, thesmost unrsI shlR Not 6
with my man-He had hDlh an e.
pectorate and 9 oough-tWe solsmi
facts. In the facs Of which } man ]
apt 20 take his siaud on . basis Of VI
rnclty and then stay ct least until g
amslIoratiou offhis symptoms. Anx
ious for information, asked in n
gard to the health Of Kansas and {
this locality. and explained to hiE
that / was IN the tomb stone bus
ness and in search Of q marble ya1
that might lead TO wealth ct no q
distant day. Alook which it pleasl
me nov to remember, ovsrapread hi
features, and be AIa % NE, ''yOV
business enterprise win have an END
my frie1d, but Il win not lead {
Wealth-a tomb.stone man In SaliE
moves not to wealth, bat Over ~
hill to the Poor House Tbs az
mate sad Of such amhltions e. tl