New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-07

In the true sense Of the word is the hunger
called to the vocation Of chasing the cure
he does not choose 1t. but when the summon.
comes he does not hesitate 1t is not quesS
ton % salary or n desirable field for laoor' u
IS an imperative call that he dares not disobey.
Evasion or even delay is punished by DEAN
The penalty follows the crime as surely, If not
as swiftly as night the day. When once en-
rolled in this great army Of "lungers" one is
set apart from the rest Of the world for life the
disease is durable. in that after time the
swarm Of bacilH may be induced 10 cease their
devastating work but almost never is the VIC
tim who has harbored this enemy able TO M
his old place in l;fe just as he did before II ne
takes care Of himself leads a regular and an
stemious life he may have a long and usefui
future before him; but at best he is likely to be
only "a patched-up boiler" as the Adirondack
physician DR.. TrudeaU says Of himself
Il is true that the consumptive patient is one
Of the most hopeful and optimistic of invalids
belong 10 that class and think I have my share
OF those cheerful attributes. but feel strongly
that the chances for permanent cure are
greatly exaggerated in much OF the literature
on the subject that is placed before the pubic
to-day. I have recently read magazine arucle
on The Great White Plague which / am sure
would give the average reader the impression
that fresh air and good food viii cure any case
one that many factors enter into the cure OF
this disease as into all others and no infaliDIe
rule can be laid down. ! have seen, in my resi-
s7ence IN Colorado, many invalids with appar-
entity little lung trouble, who have had the pest
possible conditions for effecting a cure, sue
e,ur17b n the disease while many others who
were desperately Ill when they came here have
regained their health and strength. The most
robust looking men on the street, the ones VINO
seem best fitted TO be prizefghters or police
men. are the ones who tell you proudly they
We're brought out here on stretchers Indeed II
has become a maxim with that the stretcher
cases always get well.
AS everybody knows the 'Iunger's" life must
be spent out Of doors. by night as well as by
day There are many places well adapted Tor
this but perhaps none is better than Coloraoo-
The weather here has its vagaries as well as
elsewhere, but If it did not what would the
cure chaser" with idleness forced upon him.
find 10 talk about? The truth IS that man
with nothing TO 90 IS apt 70 become cynical
and censorious. For such a one the weather is
e good safety valve.
\ At first the newcomer, who has left home and
N business behind finds this life hardly worth
living. but as soon as he has given up signing
for Broadway things begin to take on a more
cheerful aspect. After a time he really prefers
sitting IN his steamer chair gazing at the noun
fains or reading the latest magazine to going
TO the theatre II he had to choose between
hearing Calyne or Kreisler and going to bed at y
o'clock he would take the latter every time.
Twelve hours IN bed seems TO him now an apso-
lutte necessity. He shudders at the recollection
of the days when after six or seven hours sieep
1le hastily swallowed his breakfast and rushed
TO business. The hardest lesson of ell has been
mastered; he has learned TO loaf
The most pious gives up church going without
a nlurInur. The and thought that he once
expended on the future life now bestowed on
this. The parson who formerly. extolled the joys
of heaven 10 rapt congregation IS now "chas-
ing the cure" with as much zeal as the rest Of
Us. II some morning we should wake up and
have no desire to cough, if after being Stetho-
scoped by the physician no queer noises were
heard in our chests a feeling Of sadness would
creep over US. There would be no longer any
excuse for our not leading the strenuous life,
and we should feel as many an old convict does
upon being released from jail-we should long
for the quiet life again.
A physician told me that the only passport
10 the best society in Denver and Colorado
Springs was a slight cough. That is true, for
If e man did not come here for his health what
was his reason? People Immediately regard
him with suspicion and begin 10 wonder what
his name used TO be. They ask, Is it busted
lungs or q busted reputation" that brings him
TO Colorado?
We learn TO bear cheerfully disconforts that
We once thought fell only to the lot Of prirni-
tive man. The sleeper out sometimes finds a
puddle Of water in his bed just as he is pre-
pairing TO jump IN, but even that is borne with
Christian fortitude. The cold bath is taken at
night, that is all. one cold winters night my
friend. d tent dWeller, was suddenly awakened
from a sound sleep by tremendous crash. He
Iange his head from its many wrappings, ex-
pecting 10 find that the tent had fallen on him;
but saw only cat making it's escape and on
The brave people who adopt ranch life as a cure
are not infreQuently aroused from their slum-
bers by a peculiar grunung sound. and find a
large porker standing by the bed.
Nature watches jealousy over these children
Of hers, who in a Maynard hour have harbored
the enemy and must now fight valantly for re-
lease. She knows they must shun ambition as
the evil Go the light. When the final summons
comes these victims feel that time is ieeting
and business most imperative. They plan i'm
mediate activity for the new life If inteIlectu-
ally inclined, SophocIes and Kant and Adam
Smith are packed in their grips Soon how
ever. they learn that the planned sotourn of six
weeks must lengthen TO months and perhaps
years, and are content with reading 'storiettes"
IN the l0-cent magazines or working ont the
puzzles in a woman's journal. They begin 10
feel there is q possibility OF world action and a
fair degree Of world progress without their CON-
tributons. Sometimes they go so far as TO hum
with pleasure The familiar hymn "Oh! to be
nothing, nothing"
In more earnest moments they find great
charm in their favorite author, Stevenson He
seens 10 have 'ta'en fortunes buffets and re-
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