Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-24
HEALTH AND CLIMATE.

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found an intimation that living in
Utah are a few people to whom has
been applied, by common consent, the |
title of ''knocker." A "knocker" is a |
man who is always pouring cold wa
ter on new enterprises; who is ever
lastingly telling people that no good
can come of it, whatever it is; who is
always pessimistic and never optimis-
It's; whose disposition is ever sour and
never sweet; who lives, not for those
who love him, for no one loves him;
who speaks in whispers and never
laughs, save at the misfortunes of 9th
ers. He is disturber of the peace;
barnacle on the keel of the ship of
Progress; a stumbling block in the
pathway of Enterprise and Industry; a
creator of trouble and an Internal nul
sance generally. Despite the presence
in Utah of several of these insectiv-
orous parasites, we are doing pretty
well, thank you, and the horizon of the
future is painted in the rosy colors
of the summer dawn. We are going to
prosper this year. and the next, and
the next, and so on, ad infinitum, I'M
til the final wind up of all the affairs
of earth. There are several reasons
for making this representation, some
of which we will give in this article.
To begin with, we have an unusually
healthful climate. Unlike the country
bordering on the seas, and through
the valleys of the inland sections,
where the humidity is great, the at
mosphere is rare and clear. Ozone is
plentiful and a breath of the morning
is like wine; it stimulates and eXhila-
rates. The death rate is very small,
about s to the thousand population.
People live to ripe old age and die,
not from disease but like the tree on
the eastern hillside, because it is old.
The weather is perfection over 300
days in the year. The sun shines al
most every day, winter and summer.
Zero is especially cold weather for
the most part of the state, although it
must be admitted that it has been
colder than that in some sections high
up among the hills. Still the cold is
not felt as it is where the atmosphere
is dense. In this altitude the air be-
ing light, does not chill, as it does in
lower localities, and we never hear of
men freezing to death, freezing limbs,
or even getting frost-bitten, as they
do in many of the older states.
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The climate is especially favorable
to those with weak lungs. Unless too
far gone, cases of tuberculosis, or
, consumption, are cured after a brief
stay here. The rarified and pure air
is death to the germs, and the patient
, RECEIVERS his health and strength, and
lives to bless the day he came. All
over Utah may be found rugged people
who were not expecting to live when
they arrived, but who have since re-
gained their health 1t is true that
some die, but in every instance the
reason was that they delayed too long
in an unfavorable country, and the at
, mospheric conditions here could not
perform miracles. But the man whose
: lungs are affected only to an extent
that his bodily strength has not been
totally impaired, can come here and
get well. While other states have.
during the past four years, had cpl
, denies of smallpox, with many fatali-
ties, Utah has been singularly fav-
ored. OF the cases in this state, only
a half dozen cases have resulted un,
favorably, and at this writing the area
embraced in the boundaries of the