People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-19
FAVORED OLD MEXICO.
Has Many Climates and Much
Wealth of Products.
MRS. EMMA RED TELLS OF BOTH
Describes the Invigorating Effects of High
Attitudes and the Peculiar Beauty
of the Mountain Scenery-A
Veritable Tropical Climate.

Though occupying a comparatively
small area, Mexico is favored with
greater varieties of climate, OF products
of the soil and of mineral stores, than
al@ other country of the cart tn.
Her 'orrid, temperate and cold zones
are defined more by altitude than lati-
tude, and are due to her position al
most wholly within the tropics, con
junction with the mountainous charac-
ter of the country.
Thus at the sea level are found exces-
We heat and the luxuriance of tropi-
cal growth, with, presumably, their
,ffspring malaria. An elevation of
Jour thousand feet escapes the viru-
Ience of both temperature and vegeta-
ton, while still possessing the languor-
Gus balm of perpetuslly mild summer,
and a rich growth of semi-tropical
fruits and plants. This one of Mexi-
co.'s natural terraces is the paradise Of
the indolent and the invalid and con-
tains several sanitary resorts, such as
Cuantla and Cuernavaca, for victims of
pulmonary diseases. 1t is the magnifi-
cent plateau that carries it's three hun
fred leagues at an elevation varying
from six to eight thousand feet, that
forms the back bone of Mexico, geo
graphically, historically and CONNER
tally. Here is found the tempera'
C innate that most conduces to health
and activity of mind and BODY, and
from here has extended with Mexico
City as it's fountain-head the remarka-
BILE national development that is bring
ng Mexico in to prominence.
A fourth climatic possibility is in the
till higher elevations of perpetual,
though not severe, cold
The scenery of Mexico is peculiarly
beautiful, it's mountain massiveness
aud grandeur being clothed perpetually
in verdure and vlvified wi tropical
bloom. The agreeable features of the
climate are the invigorating effects of
the high attitudes, the purity of the
air at these great elevations and the
mildness and equability that result
from the suns unvaryipg rays. The
disadvantages are in little peculiari
les not easy to diagnose, such as sud
len and severe colds lin the damp val
ley of Mexico), indigestion from a too
stimulating diet of meats and coffee,
and the easy irritation of the skin from
he sting of gnats, fl as and fl es. Ha-
oitually one feels extremely we'll, exu-
Der Mt, in this tropical ozone, but S
BILE to sudden indisposition from ap-
} pa~ently insufficient causes
The rarefaction of the air presents
difficulties to some constitutions,
though not all cases of cardiac troubles
are adversely aft cted by the incre ased
action of the heart. The lurgs ex-
pand aud ultimately grow stronger
witt the necessity for increased respi,
ration, though their development is
often cut short, in the damp and un-
severed city of Mexico by sudden
and fatal cold.
Winter and summer have little mean
ing here where the only changes are
known as the wet ard the dry season
From June until October rain falls
usually during the night for two OF
three hours out of the twenty-four
Six months of uubroken fair weather
70 lows the rainy season, and it is dur
ing this dry season that we have, here
in the mountains of Guerrero, a warn
winter climate than during the rainy
summer. We have indeed found per
: petual spring time where the mercury
, knows little variation from 70 degree
, at any time or season.
In the metropolis Of Mexico, unfor
t tunately situated in a bed of lakes ant
} not yet perfectly drained, the chill o
| the unheated stone houses is extreme
ly trying during December and Janua
! ry, while in April and May the ther