Morris tribune., 1889-01-16
Climate Cure in Minnesota:

Climate Cure in Minnesota.
The Northwest Illustrated Magazine
Twenty or thirty years ago, when settle
ment in MINES ota was new, the young
state was widely known throughout the
east as a health resort for people affect
cd with throat and lung complaints.
Many consumptivcs came here on the
recommendation of their physicians as
the last chance of escape from the
clutches of the dread disease. Most of
these people are here now-middlc-aged
or elderly men and women, in robust
health; talk with them and they will tell
you that Minnesota air saved their lives.
Numbers of our leading successful bust
ness men in. the Twin Cities and in the
smaller cities and towns throughout the
state belong 10 this class. If they had
remained in their old homes In the damp,
variable climate of the east, they would
have been under the sod long ago; but
here they have recovered health and are
living out the full measure of human
life.
After the war less and less was heard
in the east of Minnesota as locality for
climate cure. The doctors began to send
their patients to Florida and other warm
climates. Later came the Colorado move
ment, which did not last long, and still
later the California craze. Winter foliage
and flowers, and the laDguid, soft air of
the south, were peculiarly attractive to
people from the snow bound regions of
the north. The progress of consumption
is no doubt delayed by winters in warm
ATTITUDES and there may he few positive
cures affected, but the record of Florida
and California in this regard does not
compare with that of Minnesota. In
stances of entire recovery can be found
here by the hundred and thousand. We
do not mean that astonishing cures were
affected of invalids who came to Mime
sofa to stay few months and then re-
turned to the unfdvorable conditions of
their old homes. The cases we refer to
are those of men and women who re-
manned and became permanent residents. |
The beneficial influences of our favora- |
BILE climate were prolonged without in !
terruption until the seeds of disease were
Minnesota is not health resort, like
Florida or Southern California, for inva- |
lids who expect to sit idly on hotel piaz-
zas and hear other invalids discuss their
symptoms. People who come here in
the early stages of lung complaints
should come prepared to stay and to take
up the business of life here anew. Let
them go to work and forget their COM
plants and their complaints will soon
forget them. But Minnesota is no longer
q new state, we may be told; are there
for new settlers to get es-
tablished in business or professional pur.
suits or upon the land? Certainly-no
end of opportunities. More than half
titled. Cities and towns are growing
fast. Come and look the ground over
and make up your mind where you want
to live and the way to make a living will
not be hard to discover.
Another question will no doubt be
asked-why is consumption durable in
The answer is, because of
the cold, dry winters, without the spells
of rain, slush and damp snow, which
characterize the seabeard climate and
that of the middle belt of country in the
interior. Because, too, of the quick
transition from winter to summer, and
also the long, sunny autumns, almost
rainless until the time of snow fall and
sharp, cold weather. The lungs are not
Initiated by raw, damp air and by sudden,
chilling changes of temperature. Per-
haps the great pine forests, which cover
the northern and eastern portions of the
state, aid in giving the air its remedial
quality.