El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-25


days are only unpleasant-theya are not
cruel Her hottest days are not hot
with a deathly heavy heat, and her
coolest ones only play impish tricks
with finger tips and noses. and make
warm rooms desirable. Very. very
rarely is there a time when children
and invalids have to keep within doors
the livelong day. Very rarely are
there days when the noon skies are not
blue and the air balmy enough to
make being out of doors pleasant
Strangers readily believe that the
winters are mild but find it difficult to
realize that the summers are bearable.
They forget how high we are. In
truth, the heat of Ell Paso is easily
| borne. 1t is hot. The sun does beat
down holly, but besides the mountain
breezes which make the shade always
ness Of the air tempers the heat. 1t is
well known complaint of New York
ers and other jewellers along the coast
and in low-lying cities, that it is the
humidity that makes the days. SO
wretchedly hot. That air hangs over
one like a heavy curtain. sitting the
breezes and making the very breath
one draws a burden. Now Ell Paso has
practically no humidity in the atmos-
pierre 1t is free from this great
discomfort of heat
The suns rays do not warm the air
through which they pass. This is easily
proved by the fact that the higher aero
nauts go. the cooler is the atmosphere.
The suns heat goes through dry air as
it does through a glass window, with
out heating it. But when the air is
damp and heavy with vapor, the sun
heats the moisture and each drop be- |
comes little radiating mass of heat
a little stove. The vapor thus heated |
forms heavy upper blanket and the
earth, which also holds the heat of the
sun. is below, and SO the dweller in
damp climates is in the hot days stified
between the two and must gasp and
gasp and often perish for breath.
There being no moisture in the air
here there is no upper blanket of heat
to stifie the Ell Pasoan who goes about
his daily toll in the city in midsummer.
And it is to be remembered that the
nights are always cool. This is an
important phase of a climate-the tenn
perature of the nights. When one
must toss and gasp and fan and drink
ice water and implore high heaven for
CT h-1 - ii, H. til
is utterly devoid of rest, the next days
discomfort is ten-fold increased and
each day is worse than the last and =,
every hour is a complaint until the
heat is over. Now. in these mountains
, fthe Southwest, the air is cool as soon &
IS the sun goes down; the breezes are t
constant and fresh and one sleeps {
quietly and long. a
All in all it is perfect climate-the t
lays warm at noon in December. the t
nights cool in August, and 1.-The penal I
y of -Adam-the seasons difference" t
S not heavy burden in Ell Paso. Il
Besides tempering the great heat of t
he sun and making the temperature of v
Il Paso SO delightful, the dryness of b
he air makes the country clean a
md sweet and healthful. The sun, f
he dryness and the winds together a
leep the country thoroughly disinfect- p
d. disease germ or any uncleanli- t
less is soon disposed of. Meat may be o
ut and hung ia the air and it will SIM A
'ly dry-never spoil nor gather to it h
elf myriads of germs of rot and I'M
leanliness and disease. An animal
eft dead on the plains is never often o
i've in odor. He simply dries up with \
ut offense to the nostrils.
Disease germs usually live and have
heir being in moisture; the dry air ID
ries up their favorite medium and ma
erially lessons their chance of harm.
he suns rays lighting upon a moist
isease germ will. in drying up the i
moisture, create a little peroxide of :,
hydrogen, and peroxide of hydrogen
eing one of the finest disinfectants
nown to science, the disease germ has
o die. This little chemical perform a.
nce-minute in individual cases-is
evertheless a great boon to the world
here the sun shines SO freely. The
un is everywhere a cleaner and puri- it
er, but here where he shines everyI
ay and his rays strike directly, he
oes more of it than elsewhere Where
ian is careless the sun and winds and
ry air all together do much to save
i'm from the punishment of his care