The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-01
HEROIC TREATMENT TRIED.
From the New York World.


Granada, COL, Nov. 26.-Colorado
news unknown in the state outside of
one home has come back from Indiana,
where it was first revealed in a letter
written to Indianapolis. In word. a
consumptive girl, whose name is given
as Charlotte Huntington and residence
as Waterford, Ind, has been, since the
beginning of last June, and continuing
until recently, when cold weather set
in, Sleeping nude in the woods on the
ranch of her uncle near here, covered
only with earth.
The story as it has come from In
diana is as follows:
The physician advised that she go
to Colorado. where she had an uncle
living, and take the new cure for con-
sumption-the mature cure"-the idea
of which is to get right down to old
mother earth and let the everlasting
hills absorb into their strength all of
the tuberculosis germs that infest the
human system.
Miss Huntington acted on the advice
and, accompanied by her faithful st.
Bernard dog, Nero, came on to Grana-
da, within a few miles of which her
uncle lives She began at once sleep
ing in a small grove near her uncle's
house without a vestige Of clothes, like
a modern Diana. covered only with
loose soil which she gently raked over
her body as she retired each night
to sleep under her blanket OF soft
warm earth.
During all the summer months just
past the girl has slept thus, while her
faithful dog constantly watched beside
the sleeping form of his mistress. Nero
and the stars twinkling in the clear
heavens thus kept vigil during the long
hours of the night.
Each morning as Miss Huntington
awoke she has taken regularly her
early morning roll in a dewy clover
bank in what she calls the bath or
the gods.
After she had taken her roll in the
morning dew, she would then run
through the woods to a secluded lake
nearby.
Then she would take her early MORN
ing plunge into the cold clear water.
Her swim over, she would emerge into
the early morning sunshine again,
which would serve for all the drying
purposes of a towel.
Then, draped in a thin, white cloth
tunic, like a girl of old Greece, MISS
Huntington would spend the day with
her dog out in the air among the Col
orado hills, just growing young and
taking unto herself all the eternal
youth which complete outdoor life
alone can bring. This tunic has been
the only clothing she has allowed her
self to wear during the entire sum-
mer.
In her letter she told her friend all
about her summers experience.
my cough has entirely gone" she
wrote; my flesh is hardened like an
athletes and 1 have gained wonderful
e,k1 q a
of my five months in the open air.
am convinced that the strength OF
earth, the light of the sun and the
renewing grace of pure, wholesome air
are to be wooed best by breaking down
the barriers of clothes and living in
the open air, just as have done all
summer.
ION the night of June 10 I had my
initial sleep in the earth.
81 dug my own grave and covered
myself over with the earth at night.
81 jump up in the morning and shake
the clean dirt from me. Then I race
down and roll in the damp clover. The
dew is so cold and refreshing-it is
veritable godlike bath-and it just
seems the complement of the sleep in
the earth to make a whole of perfec-
ton.
when I have had enough of the
clover 1 run down to the lake, which
is some distance from my sleeping
place and near by uncle's house. I
jump right in. A towel? No. I let
the sun be all the towel I need, and I
dry off in the life-giving light of the
warm rays.
Then breakfast comes from the
farm, or go to it. Lots Of milk, veg
etables, fruit and a great many nuts.
I won't eat anything that animals
won't eat. 1 mean the little herbivo-
rous animals whose instinct is so abso-
lutely sure and certain in everything.
"At first 1 lost little flesh, and it
seemed to me that 1 wasn't to get
well. But just as 1 was about to
give up 1 noticed that / was rather
stronger than usual and that my mus
cles were hard and trim as an ath-
letes.
"And you should see my color. I am
as brown all over as an Indian. My
figure wasn't anything to be boosted
of when / came out here, but now it
seems to have taken on a sort of good
proportion to itself
II shall sleep out of doors until the
weather becomes so cold that I can
stand it no longer. l feel sure that
my summers experience will bring
back health and strength to me.
knew it has been a strange and dar-
ing experiment, but 1 believe that
sound health is worth anything, and
that is what I was after"