The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-03
PROFESSIONAL CLIMATE SEEKERS
They Are Abroad in the Land Look
ing for Sunshine Records.

New York, March People don't trust
as implicitly to fate and native circum-
stance as they once did. The rich and
even the moderately rich feel no obliga-
ton to live in a trying climate because
they happened to be born there. The pro-
fessional confort-taker is abroad in the
land, as well as the professional health
seeker. And the old toast about long life
and prosperity is answered to by a great
caravan of travellers who cultivate fa-
lubrity at all points and take every pre-
caution for prolonging existence.
Each year sees new winter resorts es-
tablished due to the investigations of pri-
waite parties who, wearying of the fuss
and state at the already popular places,
have gone off quietly with their aneroid
barometers and weather gauges. and hit
upon some location suited to their partic-
ular needs. The ample facilities for trav-
ell and increased knowledge of the eli
mate and living conditions obtainable in
all parts of the country has opened a vast
territory to these free-agent health-seek-
ers. And the handy and portable contriv-
ances for testing the amount of heat or
cold, humidity or dryness, altitude or de-
preston of any given place, has made it
possible for the comfort-taker to absolute
curing himself against monotony.
The Doctors Advice.
you go to a place where there is plenty
OF ozone in the air." is the doctors die
tum in a certain case. Breathe the
right sort of air, and a plenty of it con-
tinuously and you won't need tOnics." So
the case gets him an ozone gauge and
starts off hunting clover. He accepts no
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this or that resort in regard to the charm
ed quality. Straightway on arrival at
some promising point he unpacks and
sets up his ozonometer and test papers,
and according to the verdict delivered by
the instrument is his stay long or short
at that special place.
you should live at high altitude. but
not too high, not more than so many
Thousand feet above sea level" is the
admonition to a person by no means i'll
where he is, but who yearns after the
very acme of perfect being And this
case makes for the mountains, seeking
sheltered spots the exact hight of which
can be gauged by his aneroid barometer,
and the precise degree of humidity ascer-
tanned by another little instrument called
hygometer.
Some of the Apparatus.
Oiie pSISOH SOeS armed with q sunshine
recorder and trusts no resort whose sun
shine record he has not taken daily and
compared with the public vouchers for a
fortnight, keeping his test papers on the
subject as carefully filed as a business
man keeps his bills or a belle her social
engagements. Another tourist seeks kind
ly winds. The winds that blow from
certain directions rritate him, but him
out of harmony with existence. So he
takes along on his quest a private an
paratus for wind guaging; an anemo-
meter which may be set upon the lawn
or the beach, or the house top even. wher-
ever he chances to be, and permit of his
pursuing his Investigations independent
Of the local weather vanes. He trusts
the average weather vane no more than
he trusts the words rain" Change and
fair on the dial of the average baronn-
eter. He keeps his own climate gauges
and looks after them personally, SO tbat
he may not be cheated by the bulletins
into believing that more continuously
balmy winds prevailed at that certain
place dur ng the month than was actu-
ally the case.
Certain tourists go provided with an