Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-06-13

Special Correspondence.

lional colony and sanitarium for con.
sumptives. located in southwestern
New Mexico; climatic conditions I'M.
surpassed; an inspiration to the
healthy, a haven for the sick.
The average winter day-crispy,
cool mornings and evenings. balmy
at noon, and proverbially cool nights.
Glorious weather to walk in, to ride in,
to work in, sleep in n to play in.
There are very few days when chill
dren and invalids may not be out in
perfect safety and enjoyment. The
spring and fall days are perfect, an
unbroken combination of cool breezes
and warm suns. The summers never
know a warm night, and the very air
is fragrantly clear and tonic.
Blessed with sunshine. pure air and
pure water. a combination that gives
life. routs disease, nourishes hope,
warns the soul and lifts up the heart.
Year after year, we have eleven sun
ny days to one cloudy day; while in
the eastern cities and in the east en-
orally. the sunny days are fewer than
the gray ones. This clear skies.
brilliant and intoxicating. with daz-
zllngly bright stars not often seer in
damp climates. The dryness of the
atmosphere gives the air by hight and
day, a sparkle that is like the bead on
champagne. and the little, soft, cool
showers generally come to cool the air
and make sleep refreshing and restful.
The Climate a Sanctuary.
To the we'll the climate is an inspira-
ton: it doubles the value of life; there
is no excuse for not doing ones best.
Psychologists say that more murders,
suicides. and crimes of all sorts are
committed on gray days, in damp,
gloomy weather. han on bright days;
gray weather is for dependency, dis
couragement and Observation-Disclosures. if
these be in a person. To the sick
this climate is a haven. a sanctuary.
AS in the days of old the church was
a refuge where the pursued, the weak,
the helpless could fee for sanctuary,
and be, for a time at least, safe from
the evil that threatened, SO Deming is
a sanctuary for the sick who some
times shake off their pursuer-death-
and always have some respite at least
from his pursuit. Every one is bet
ter here; the majority get entirely
well, and even those at deaths doors
have a pause before they must cross
the dreaded threshold; the very all
helps to destroy the germs of con
sumption. and If a consumptive has
any hope, he car usually expand it into
life here.
Our bad weather is not very bad at
the worst-an occasional storm is
mean and We do not like it, but after
il Is over and the sand is brushed and
washed and combed out. it is to be re-
membered that sleet, slush and cold,
driving rains are far worse, worse to
endure, do more destruction and are
more fatal to health. There is no pneu-
monia, no grip, no fever and ague, no
rheumatism in a sand storm, but it is
simon pure aggravation.
Comfortable in Summer.
Almost all strangers to Deming will
ask, But is it not very hot there in
the summer time, and are the winters
warm?" because it is so far south peo-
pie who do not know attribute it to the
climate of the southern lowlands, with
oppressive heat, when the fact is that
il Is on the highlands. and the great
altitude. 1900 feet, modifes the tenn.
perature so that it has all the benefits
of a southern CLINE, with none of the
ills of malaria and other facilitating
influences, and all the energizing ozone
of the highlands without the severity
of climate of the highlands of the
north.
In a low. damp climate the damp air
acts like a blanket, and the hot sum
mers are deadly, the winters bitter and
merciless. The humidity kills. In
Deming the thermometer may range
much higher, but, owing to the alti-
tude. and absolute clearness Of the
air. the heat is not oppressive. In
New York and other cities of the east,
and further north, in midsummer we
read of men and beasts perishing from
the heat. while here, v the higher
temperature, no n ever succumbs
TO the heat, even in midday on the
streets. From II o'clock until 4 in
midsummer Is very warm in the sun,
but the shade is always cool, and there
are always little refreshing breezes,
so that one can comfortably cool OFF
and enjoy life.
1t is the lack of humidity that makes
the midgummers not only tOlerable.