Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-04-16
Northwestern Kansas The Inva-
lids Paradise.

lids Paradise.
One of the many pecullarities of
our race is its persistent pursuit of
many things whose possession. it is
believed. Is attainable. And in this
perpetual quest, the search for lost
health is perhaps the most common
and universal. The rich with ample
means at command, journey far and
near, voyage to distant lands, cross
continents, climb mountains, seek
lakes and springs, valleys and pla-
teaus, low levels and high attitudes.
ransacking all chimes, lured on by the
hope of securing at last the object of
their fatiguing endeavor, and realiz-
ing in its possession more than ade-
quate compensation for all the ex-
penditure of time, money and effort,
all the sacrifices and discomforts in
volved in the pursuit.
Often, in this universal search,
remote places difficult and wearisome
of access are sought out. while others
offering far greater inducements and
possessing much more remedial and
restorative virtue, and closer at hand,
are overlooked, or, perhaps. their rep
utation as health resorts is not gener-
ally known, they are lost sight OF.
This last fact has special refer
ence to Northwestern Kansas, the
most perfect paradise for invalids in
the United States. With an altitude
of 1900 feet above the sea level,
reached by a gradual northwesternly
ascent from the Missouri river, with
a most delightful climate for fully
nine months of the year-the Winters
usually mild and always short, the
springs early, the summers long, and
the autumns simply Incompatible for
duration and bewitching beauty, the
climate of that phenominally health
full locality is the perfection of the
temperate zone.
The air of this entire region is dry
and full of oozone-not SO destitute
of humidity as that of Colorado, New
Mexico and California, hence its eff
feet upon highly nervous and super
sensitive invalids is not so deleterious
and shocking as In the states named
and in the majority of the famed
mountainous health resorts of this
country and Europe.
The utter absence of maliarial faint
in the pure air of Northwestern Kan
sas. the remarkable sunshine, the
golden days succeeding each other
for months without cloudy Interrupt
tion-more sunny days on the aver
age than in any other state in the
Union; the daily average temperature
in summer too uniform to be oppres-
siye, and the nights always delic-
iously cool with refreshing breeze,
usually rising at twilight and contin-
uing till the dawn, this magnifc ent
region proffers to health-seakers and
all lovers of luxurious physical com
fort, inducements that cannot be du-
plicated in any other equal area on
this continent.
To satisfy any one that the forego-
ing statements are not in the least
exaggerated, even a brief sojourn in
this section will suffice. Those who
have resided there for years, in com
mon with those who are frequently
called there on business, are loud IN
their praise of its superb healthful-
ness.
If not a another acre of wheat or
corn should ever be raised in North
western Kansas most improbable
thing-its healthfulness, and, in con-
sequence, its rare desirabllity as a
resort for invalids, a place where
health andEigor may be surely re-
covered and enjoyed and where the
debilitatjng lassitude, the exhausting
weakness of physical ailments may
be easily and comfortably overcome,
and at an expense within the reach
of the poorest, would still make it one
of the most important regions of this
great state.
The CHAMPION gladly avails ITSELF
of an opportunity to direct the pub
lie attention to the fact not generally
and widely known-that Northwest
srn Kansas is indeed the invalids
paradise.-AtchisoB Champion.