Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09
Fort Worth as a Winter Resort.

Fort Worth as n Winter Resort.
Your article on street trees for Texasf appear
ing in THE GAZETTE of last Sunday, interested
me exceedingly. I am very sure that you are
right when you say our towns of Northern
Texas ought to be made to take on more
Southern look than is now characterizing them.
have been in Florida. and can therefore vouch
for what you say about how they do it there.
Florida lives off her winter resorts, and the
tropical appearance given her towns has more
to do with attracting them than has her climate.
Now, our North Texas towns have never
| thought much Of making anything out of winter
| resorters. Is it not possible that more southern
appearance might enable them nj to do something
| great winter resort for Northern invalids?
| A CITIZEN.
Fort Worth. Tex.
Undoubtedly. Little as seems to
be thought of it, Northern Texas
fills, with her peculiar climate,
an existing need which would be
eagerly seized upon could all
| Northern people be made to clearly I'M
| derstand the case. In the first place,
there is class of invalids from the North
who cannot advantageously stand the
damp atmosphere and harsh sea winds
and heavy fogs OF Florida. These would
find in our dryer atmosphere and tenn
require. Many a winter resorter to the
| coast regions dies from these bad effects
| produced by the sea, who, had he
| stopped at Fort Worth instead, would
| have recovered. OF course our winters,
taken as an average, are somewhat
colder than the winters in Florida, yet
| an examination of the records for both
regions will show you that the difference
is not near SO great as one would be apt
to suppose without the evidence before
him. What we lose in point of tempera-
ture we more than make up in dryness of
atmosphere, mildness of winds, generally
speaking, and absence of coast fogs.
Our occasional Hnorthers in winter
are the bugbear usually talked of by
people who know nothing about them;
but really could these be clearly under
stood they would be looked upon by the
invalid more With favor than otherwise.
They are always of short duration, aud
while they are upon us they have the
effect of purifying the atmosphere by
beating down the disease germs that
float perpetually in Florida. They make
nobody sick. One feels invigoreted and
better after they are over than he felt
before they came on. They fill the Of
flee of winter at the North without be-
luR u UeCUu0 lu-
furious. The consumptive who has Wis
tied us finds them nothing whatever
against him. This is not consum ption
country. There are to-day far more
native consumptives in Florida than can
be counted against like population IN
Northern Texas.
Then there is another view to take of
Northern Texas as a favorable winter
resort for Northern invalids. The
winter-resorting invalid to Florida does
not go there to stay. He goes there
with the hope Of getting well if possible,
after which he expects to return and
stay permanently at his home in the
North. One winter in Florida will not
cure him, so he must return the next
winter or die. And thus it must be kept
up from year to year without, in most
cases, any permanent gain-simply a
prolongation of life, but not a cure.
The difference between his home climate
in winter and that of Florida is so great
that his winterines in Florida convert
him into a hot-house plant as it were.
He is thrown into condition that wholly
units him TO endure the Northern
winter, and his annual migrations to aud |
fro from extreme to extreme hold him
permanently in that condition.
Now, Northern Texas is able TO offer |
him a means of working out of that de- |
plorable condition. Let him go to |
Florida for one winter, If he regards the |
far South necessity in his case. Then, |
if he finds himself greatly benefited let |
him pass his next winter in Northern
Texas, and his next a little above this
and so on. Thus step by step,
SO TO speak, he may work himself home a
well man and entirely acclimated to the
region he had originally left in his run
away from death.
This is the only means by which con-
sumption can be permanently cured by
resort to the South, in case where the
patient does not propose remaining in the
South. Every such invalid ought to
make one or two winters stay in North
ern Texas, and when the necessity for it
becomes better understood he'll do it.
This will give our section an advantage
over Florida, for in addition to the large
numbers who will find it in their favor to
90 no lower, we shall have our turn at
all OF Florida 8 invalid resorters.
OF course it will be argued that these
restorers might make their stops along
in the states directly above Florida. So
they might, but when they get to un-
Outstanding something of the health
giving and invigorating peculiarities of
Northern Texas they III not do it-they III
come this way every time, for by this
route they will be worked more gradu-
ally into the characteristics OF their own
climate than by any other route they
could take. Our "northers' will stand
among their greatest attractions, for in
hem they will be receiving all occasional
" holesome homeopathic dose of the very
climate they are attempting to temper
themselves to.
The Northern invalid movement Will,
We have no doubt, be following exactly
his rotine in the near future, and taking
he thing for granted one will not find it
lard to convince himself that the cities
presenting the most strongly marked
southern appearance will get the ID
yalids.
Shade Trees for Texas.
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