Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-02
Looking for Health in Sunshine
Records.
MODERN HELPS TO INVALIDS
Health Resorts Are Increasing at
a Great Rate.
ALL HAVE GOOD POINTS

Written for The Evening Star
People don't trust as implicitly to fate and
native circumstance as they once did. The
r1ch, and even the moderately rich, feel nc
obligation to live in trying climate be-
cause they happened to be born there. The
professional comfort taker Is abroad in the
land as Well as the professional health seek
err And the old toast about long life and
prosperity is answered to by great cara
ven of travellers who cultivate salubrity az
all points and take every precaution for
prolonging existence.
Each year sees new winter resorts estab-
lished, due to the Investigations of private
parties, who, wearying Of the fuss and state
at the already popular places. have gone off
quietly with their anerod barometer and
weather gauges, and hit upon some loca-
ton suited to their particular needs. The
ample facilities for travel and increased
knowledge of the climate and living condi-
tiohs optalnable in all parts of the country
mas opened a vast territory to these free
agent health seekers. And the handy and
portable contrivances for testing the amount
OF heat or cold, humidity or dryness alti-
tude or depression of any given place has
made it possible for the comfort taker to
absolutely elude the weather's vagaries
while securing himself against monotony.
The Doctors Advice.
''You go to a place where there is plenty
of ozone in the air. is the doctors dictum
in a certain case. Breathe the right sort
of air and a plenty Of it continuously and
you won't need tonics." So the case gets
him an ozone gauge and starts off hunting
clover. He accepts no ready-made opinion
as to the claims of this or that resort in
regard to the charmed quality. Straghtway
on arrival at some promising point he I'M
papers, and according to the verdict de-
fvared by the instrument is his stay long
or short at that special place.
on should live at a high altitude but
not too high, not more than so many thou
sand feel above sea level is the admoni-
ton to person by no means ill where he
is, but who yearns after the very acme of
perfect being. And this case makes for the
mountains, seeking sheltered spots the ex-
act height of which can be gagged by his
aneroid barometer, and the precise degree
of humidity ascertained by another little
instrument called a hygometer.
Some of the Apparatus.
One person goes armed with a sunshine
recorder and trusts no resort whose sun
shine record he has not taken daily and
compared with the published vouchers for
a fortnight, keeping his test papers on the
subject as carefully filed a business man
keeps his bills or belle her social engage
The winds that blow from certain directions
irritate him, put him out of harmony with
existence. So he takes along on his quest
a private apparatus for wind gaugng; an
thermometer which may be set upon the
lawn or the beach or the housetop even
wherever 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 barometer
He keeps his own climate gauges and looks
after them personally, so that he may not
be cheated by the bulletins into believing
that more continuously balmy winds pre-
vailed at that certain place during the
month than was actually the case.
Certain tourists go provided with an cleo
trometer warranted to ascertain the amount
of electricity in the air of different locali-
ties. Others having horror of dampness
take along a rain gauge; also number in
thermometers for testing the baths the
milk, the babies food, also the house tenn
perature and outdoor temperature, that
the latter may be compared with the
barometer changes and the two to-
gether afford accurate weather forecasts
Time was when any or all of these vari-
Gus philosophical instruments could only
be afforded by the very wealthy or by
scientists willing to make sacrifice to at
tain them. But now there are little watch
pocket thermometers extremely sensitive
and accurate compasses and magnifying
glasses that work together and a host OF
portable instruments useful to the anna
teur meteorologist. There are pedometers
for registering the number Of PAGES gone
over each day, odometers to be attached
to carriage wheel for measuring the dis
lance Travelled, and other devices for regu-
lating the daily life and walk Of the health
and comfort taker, SO that he may pre-
serve the happy mean in exercise
An Ounce of Precaution.
"The aids for helping people to get round
nature and stave off old age or infirmity
are multiplying constantly" said a dealer
in travellers equipments. Folk with COM
mon sense to realize their constitutional
needs and the means to live in climates
suited to them can keep on indefinitely
without either illness or mishap even
though they be delicate. Many who do not
themselves understand just the climatic
requirements expedient for them have
physicians to analyze their systems and
put them on the right trail. There are more
the head regarding where they shall live
during the different seasons than ever ex-
listed since the world began. They 20 about
the matter scientifically and systematically
gauging instruments sold. And people once
interested in wind, heights, Temperature
and climate alterations seldom abandon
the study. They get SO accustomed to liv-
conditions that they are uneasy when out
of the right atmosphere and willing to go
to any trouble or expense to attain their
pr escrfbed bearings.
II avoid being sick as much because of
the i'll looks my friends would have to bear
with as on account of the personal dis
comfort" said a woman health seeker. II
hold that to be happy Is a duty, that hap
pness depends largely upon health and that
health can be secured'and kept by living
properly, neither srisking exposure nor sub
jecting oneself to tooo enervating inf1u-
ences.'' These scientific climate testers hold
the secret for aA,if they will pay atten-
ton. friend who occasionally had some
She one day accompanied a party to a
mountain resort q. coo feet above the sea
and was seized with palpitation Of the
heart tiresoBe illaess resulted. She
had the fatigue oflmoying to her former no.
tel and a heavy doctors bill, all of which
might have beeni5sayed' had she provided
herself before leaving iDme with a knowl-
edge of the right altitude for her to at
tempt and an instrument for recording
height as well as' pressure of atmosphere
She never should have gone above 5000
feet. 81 III
Formerly in choosing site for home
people only inquired whether the neighbor-
hood was good, IL the soil was favorable
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