New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-13
CLINdTE TNDOORS AND OUT.

The winter has barely begun yet many com
plants agc already heard OF the dcbiltatIng
influence, of the climate. Americans live IN
oyclhcatcd houses and arc unconscious OF the
degree t. which they arc pampcring and en-
fccbing their bodies by furnace air. by the
middle OF O.tober the fires were knded. Two
months have passed and laSstude ana de-
preston are already felt. II is the climate IN
doors that cncryat"S rather than the climate
outdoors Men become accustomed during the
winter = living and sleeping i'll oycrhcated
houses and to working by day with steam
radiators and furnace tIueS in full blast.
phv.icalv tho are weakened by this artificial
atmosphcyo. They 20 about with plaintiyc
outclicS against the sudden changes in :" the
worst climate on the face Of tho caIth.' They
seem wholly unconscious of the fact that the
shari g, changes a,c those which are artitcially
produced between the climate indoors and the
climat, outside.
Oyerhcated houses and Offices are not only
promoting pulmonary disease and physical eX-
haustion but are also mparting an impetus
TO a midwinter exodus of health and pleasure
seekers Southern Europe retains its old-timc
D ,pularity as a refuge for consumptiveS; but
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travel has set in toward Florida. the West
Indies. Mexico and Southern California. For
piotlacted winter S0journ Florida, Nassau
and Barbados have perhaps nnriyalled attrac-
tons Oh thi, side OF the Atlantic but for short
outings there is a wide range OF midwntcr
travel and il j. of such excursions that the de-
bill tatcd hothouso plants Of Northern climcs
already feel in need. \ voyage 10 Jamaica or
10 the Lcowarl and Windward Islands. or a
Journey t. Cuba or Venezuela, or railway
cxcm sion through Mexico with Il conducted
party and a vcstibulc train. have become pop
ular interludcs in the social recitatyc Of q
No & prn winter. With the desc OF the Christ
ma, holidays the flight OF these wintcr-birds
begins, and for two or three months the tourist
is familiar figure in those portions OF tropical
America which can be readily reached and
visit d with flir degree of comfort 50 far as
hot &C ommo ia'ion> are concerned
AS soon ~ these birds OF passage arc on the
VIM they exp ri'ncc the inyigOratlng effects
Of fresh air For a single night out Of New
York lIarbOr at sea the breath Of coil OF
steam pipe may be welcomed in sleeping cabin
or social hall but from the second day the
touii,. lives without artificial heat Whether
he i, crossing the Gulf Stream on his course
to the Bahamas, or circling about the lovely
highland islands OF the Lesser Antilles, or
rcvclling in the sunshine and bamy breezcs of
Cuba. he is filling his lungs with fresh air on
lard or sea. and when he awakcs in the morn
ing he is spared the sensation of having been
moro or less cooked by dry heat while he has
been asleep. When his outing is over and he
returns reluctantly to his homo and business,
"braccd up rs he describes il, for enduring
the iayagcS of ga bcaStly climate he finds
himself gasping for breath as ho crosses his
own threshold and passes into the sphere OF
artii ial heat and h. awalies the next morning
with neuralgia pains in tho head and II general
sense of having been shut up overnight in
furnace fuc. Thcn.i if he bo a wise man he
will have less to say about the evils Of an
Indictment and changcablc climate and will re-
feet sobcry upon the conditions Of the artificial
and unWholCSomc climate indoors which tho
furnace maker has created, and he himself
tolerateS t. his own physical degcneracy.