Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1895-01-25
FLORIDA MOSQUITO BARS AND CAL
IF0RNIA STOVES.
Eugene Field 10 the chicago Record.

i eugene ttelu 10 the chicago Record,
While the fruil-growers OF Flolda are
wailing because Of the cold wave that
made such inroads upon the orange
crop last week, the weather.bureau
people are declaring that If those fruit
growers had paid proper attention to
the published official predictions and
reports most Of the orange crop could
have been saved. The coming OF the
cold wave was forecast twenty-six
hours in advance, thus admitting of
sufficient preparation to temper the
severity of the wave to the tender
fruit buds. The truth Is, however,
our Florida bretheren are just as hap
py-go-lucSy folk as our other bretheren
throughout the south.
1t must be the climate that makes
them go. Let the average Yankee
locate along the gulf coast, where he
can't get any Goldfish, and where baked
beans are an unknown quantity; feed
him on pompano aud corn pone; what
is the inevitable result? The Yankee
loses his shrillness of speech and he
begins to drawl. lie finds himself
losing interest in temporal affairs. He
awakens to realization of the fact
that money in itself is a vulgar, greasy
commodity, and that the man who de-
votes himself to the accumulation
thereof is practically save. Then
that Yankee buys a hammock and
Eswings it between two trees in the
Eplney woods and his eyes acquire a
dolce far niehte look, and the next
thing we know that Yankee is voting
the democratic ticket and is bidding
the Home Market club of Boston go to
thunder
We defy anybody to live six weeks
along the gulf coast and NOT fall victim
to that inexpressibly delightful Ian
guor that is called southern. The SEN
sation of not caring whether school
keeps or not is Particularly nog6l and
particularly refreshing to Chicago peo-
pie; in fact, we think the time is near
at hand when the delightful country
adjacent to the delta Of the Mississip-
pi will become the sanltarium-tbe
vast health-recruiting grounds-of
overworked ChicagOans. Neurastheuia
: is the bette noir of Chicagoans, and 20
other spot on earth is more congenial
to the neurasthenic than is the coun-
try adjacent to New Orleans. The
climate Il mild, inviting if not com
pelling outdoor life. There ire sights
to see and things to do; one is kept
busy in harmless, irresponsible way
The people to be met there are a sooth.
ing influence, they are so improvident
. and Indifferent, so careless, so happy,
go-lucky, so delightfully."- impossible.
One thing we have never been able
to understand and one that we have
4 never had explained is this Why is ii
. that the Southern people, fond OF com.
fort as they are, are opposed to the
use Of wire-screnes for their windows
s and doors? The explanation that flies
y arc not as abGldant in the south as
elsewhere is hardly satisfactory, fol
in the ahsehce OF flies there are plenty
of mosquitoes tomake life rrecarious
thing to the average person with blood
in him. Some allege that door ano
window screens are not practicable
for the reason that they would prevent
j. the free circulation OF air aud thus
render life a misery indeed, particular
o ly at night, when the sleeper must
have plenty of oxogen, etc. Curlously
enough we 1nd the very people who
make this objection to screens using
heavy pOsQuito-bars about their beds
netting so fine as to be almost wBter
proof, and we lave seen some of thi:
netting in use that appeared actually
to be alright. If the slumberer re
Quires oxygen, how lin the name of al
o the gods at once) is he to get it any
more readily under densely wover
mosquito net than If there were wire
screens at the open windows?
This question of window-screens lr
h. the south is as veXatious as is the stove
question In California. Instead of ad
+ vegtisiug herself as what she is, q
superb summer resort California
" chooses to be known as a winter resort
= for invalids. The result is that peo
pie 10 delicate health flock to Califor
mia in winter and, after shivering fol
two months come away with violent
0 prejudice against California climate
La the sunshine California is lovely: II
the shade California is as miserable a
. spot as ever drove an anaemiac to sui
eide, The plain truth is that the av
erage temperature from Dec. K
March y 10 California is go degrees
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