The Dolores star., 1906-06-29
n|0T0RlIe FORTUNES
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Au1oxo1rEx asa su8sTTTuxJ
FOR lGouNTAINs.
oood Thing for consumptives Whs
Can AFFORD It, But Trolley
Cars Nay Be Used
Instead.

Ten thousand miles Of automobiling
4 year instead of cod liver oil and
bronchial tablets may be a future pre-
scription for those afflicted with deli
cate throats and threatened with pub
monary disease. Why not walking
or driving? Just as good for some
patients, say the doctors, but not
quite SO convenient.
The automobile is recommended to
those who would be cured without
exile from home. says the New York
Sun. The patient lives in New York,
or Boston. or Philadelphia, of Balti-
more. None Of these cities has
climate specially. recommended for
throat or lung diseases.
Six months. a year, two years, half
life time in the Adirondacks or Colo
RADIO used to be the remedy and still
is for many. This meant and means
exile from home and friends and the
society Of fellow sufferers.
The automobile means a residence
at home for at least eight months in
the year. From any one of the cities
named the possession of an automo-.
bile enables the patient to command,
mountain air within a few hours,
whenever he will
1t means Saturday to Monday trips
that may take the patient and his
friends $50 miles from the coast. It
means on any fine day the possibility,
OF getting from 1000 to 1000 feet
above sea level and remaining in the
open air for Is hours.
Swift TOURING corc of orrroct vno1-o,
render the traveller independent of
hotels. day or night, at meal time or.
at any time. Perhaps some of them
carry hot bathtubs.
The patient with rapid change Of
scene, plenty of company, and a per-
'petual picnic forgets that all this
travelling is done for health, and the
health sometimes comes before the,
patient quite realizes tn change. He
is not restricted to any particular
route.
Some Of the doctors begin to sus-
pect that the mountain air is not real-i
ly necessity. There are men and
women who have proflted wonderful
ly just riding about their own neigh,
borhood and seldom getting 40 miles
from home.
There are stories Of women who
have cured themselves of seriousl
bronchial ailments by spending the
larger part of every day in little ma.
chimes that they can manage them,
selves. Most Of the time such auto
mobilists keep within easy return of!
home. They get variety into their
rides by choosing different routes
each day for week and taking a diff;
ferent companion of voyage every two
or three days.
One such woman in Boston became
so much the mistress of her machine,
that she Could not only drive it with
ease, but actually take it apart and
put it together again, The absorbing.
interest of new knowledge probably!
had something to do with the cure
that followed. Hers was the fresh
air cure plus frequent change of scene!
and new and absorbing interest
OF course eight or ten hours daily
in the open air makes it practically
impossible that such patient shall
sleep in a close rooom. The fresh air
treatment thus goes on while the pa
tient sleeps.
OF course, the automobile treatment
is for the well-to-do. But there are
cynical doctors who suspect that just
the plain open trolley car will do won
ders for those who cannot buy motor
cars or hire chauffeurs. II man or
woman has nothing to do but seek
health. the open trolley car may be
enjoyed at its best.