Arizona daily citizen., 1901-09-28

compact tfees making dense shade, and
which bound pretty lawns, yellowed n
spots by rainless weeks, running ba k
! to cool-looking adobe houses, one story
high, with red roofs and sunk like n
old stone in trees and vines and shrub.
berry.
81 always thought it was town Of
mud hnts and unpatnted pine bnil'-
lnss, muses. the tourist, Something
! ke the frontier towns that Remington
draWs"
AS he returns to the hotel, passing q
sprinkling cart, many bicycles and fresh,
young Anne lean girs in white, the tour
ist recalls some Of the descriptions Of
Tucson he has read In western stories.
He doesn't like to think the writers were
liars, bat it seems Incredible that this
Tucson has developed 50 recently out Of
chaotic, incongruous frontier town,
hall Mexlcans," as he recollects one
writer called it. What he has seen has
shaken up his preconceived notions. As
centre OF adventure Tucson is dismal
failure. This isn't the west he reads
about. This west would have no color,
no characteristics, no value from the
point OF view OF story.making. The old
west Is the beet still for stories, he de.
cides, but how hard IL is on the west OF
today! What reputation to live down
when eastern cousins put revolvers In
their bags before they visit it, and think
every one wears a flannel shirt. How. /
ever, with the thermometer at ITO de- /
grees, he is glad to get back too modern !
hotel, to nice shade, rocking chair. a /
cool drink and newspaper. The tour.
ist had seen the figures 'll0 degrees"
on thermometer outside the drug store,
1t certainly was hot weather. He had
perepired, it seemed to HIM, through
the soes OF his shoes. And yet, after
ten minutes on the veranda, he was
cool. He felt the wind strike his neck
and wrists with the peculiar sensation
OF cold experienced by inhaling while
eating a peppermint drop. The tourist
read through the Tucson paper. "Nota
word about the heat" he commented
"no 'sweltering humanity; nothing
about odd Sol or the weather man no
list OF prostrations.' And there would
be none. There 10 no record of sun.
stroke in the territory, If exception is
made OF man, two.thirds charged with
liquor, who once toppled over in Phoe.
nix. Arizona enjoys the luxury Of no
The sun burns and blisters
and starts the water from the BODY In
streams. Then comes the dry air from
The plains, which have not tasted water
or months, and sets the human evapor-
stor In motion. The process OF cooling
he drinking water IL the same. A Jar
illed with water is mapped with wet
:loths. and in shgft tine is as cool as
hat from spring.
1t is the kind %lsheasSbat YOU can
tand. There is no enervatg6n, no into.
erable greasiness OF skin. Better ITO
Iegrees in Arizona than 90 degrees in
tew York.
When the tourist snapped out the elec.
ric light in his room that night he was
till rejecting on the surprises the vest
ad provided him In the town OF Tucson.
Perhaps he thought, "every one
nows 1t is like this modern, common
lace, civilized. Perhaps they know
here is University here. that they're
Ing'ng 'Goo.Goo Eyes and that you
ee churches with notice boards on them
ay Wing, Sunday School at 8 80; Preach.
lg at | H. Perhaps no one believes in
ne pictures oi Bret Harte and Dan
luin and Owen Wister any more. But
did, and am thirty years behind"