The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-03-30
ARIZoNA'S CONSERVATIVE SANITARIUM
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Der to April. Bear in mind l am not recommending
any man or woman to come here in the final stages
! OF disease nor anyone whose purse is not large.
deep and well filed for druggists and doctors bills.
! groceries and incidentals are away up and al
most out of sight
he winter nights here arc cool and bracne
/ and the early mornings sharp when a gasoline or
oll stove is a most convenient piece of furniture
! But from in the morning to in the afternoon
every day In winter Is delight and the air an at
mospheric dream. The summers are hot. .'con-
/ foundedly OF, to use wellerism. when the heat
VIII at times run the mercury up to 120 Fahren-
| helf. There have been weeks here in the summer.
when the thermometer would register IS degrees
day and night. But remember there would be only
20 per cent moisture in the air. In the eastern
states such heat woud wear down men and ati-
mails 4 canvas tent of fair size costs anywhere
from $50 to SlC0 Il tent may be rented ncludiny
site Tor from S15 to $50 a month. counting in lit
! tie chean furniture People soon learn to do their
own cooking, and after time learn to live with
reasonable economy. There is an electric road run
nng from the camp to the city the fare for the re-
turn "trip being 10 cents In this tented village are
men and women of all ages. but chiefly the young
and the middle aged who in the words of the Psalm
lst, are suffering hard things and drinking the
wine of sorrow" 1t IS very lonely here for many
and wearisome and this feeling of loneliness engcn-
ders sadness which is often more fatal than dis
ease for the splendid air cannot reach it, Away
from home and friends. the human heart Graves
companionship and those who at home are natu-
rally reserved, and socially exclusive. here become
companionable and invite conversation. For some
HE here l. very trying indeed: ii Is 50 lonesome
so monotonous to live, day by day, this life Of same
ness and unchanging routine unredeemed by yar-
ETY. and unblessed by pleasant association. This $50
atlon bears in upon the soul; it tires of its own
thoughts which, even if pleasant. carry note of
sadness. There are here and there in the camp
human souls, imprisoned in their decomposing bod
les, that are by nature melancholy and given to
brooding They become morose in their thoughts
and drift into that pitiful condition described by
the Royal Prophet when the sorrowful soul COM
munes with itself and in despair exclams Il
looked for one that would orieve with me and there
none; and for one that would comfort me and
| found no one"
The days are so long so full of melancholy for
bodngs, Of pleasant and unpleasant memories OF
fears of dissolution and the hope of life. and after
the day the wearisome night and intermittent slum-
bers and even these broken with hacking coughs.
with the dreaded chills and burning fever and per
haps. unwelcome dreams.
Here each human will IS putting up brave
fight against treacherous and nsidous foes. ticnd-
lshy cunning in their methods of attack. 1t is the
combat of the body against millions of bacterial
tvites of microscopic parasites. which, living. feed
upon the lungs, and when dead poison the blood In
this unequal fight for life the soul is ever active,
helping the body-ts yet living tabernacle and be-
loved companion-with hope, with splendid deter
mination. and whispering to it with unquenchablC
love- What magnificent help this friendly air of
Arizona is giving us" Then the body has another
friend severe if you will but frend-the terrible
cough, that racks the body with heroic determina-
ton to tear out the dead and decaying bacteria.
poisoning the human temple And now,
Swing outward ye gates of the future;
Swing inward We gates of the past,
For the dark shades of night are retiring,
And the white lights are breaking at last.
Tho thpraopntic ain and LOVING SOul yvinnillrr
out. The cough is bidding goodbye to the body.
its help Is longer required, the dreaded night
sweats have vanished and the soul. rejoicing says
to its companion, The battle is won the field IS
ours"
In one tent into which | was invited by the
mother, reclined on the lounge her daughter fair
Young girl of is or 20. She sat up as we entered.
and when | was introduced she courteously extend
ed to me her hand which left upon my own a sen
sation of wetness. Her conversation, address and
bearing indicated conventual training and a cul-
tured mind. Her blue eyes, the fever flush on her
cheeks and her wealth Of rich, auburn hair sadly
reminded me of the Norman Peasants Daugh-
ter" immortalized by the Irish poet Thomas Davis:
To MINISTER'S vale they brought her,
TO the cool and balmy air
4 Norman peasants daughter
With blue eyes and golden hair.
They brought her to the valley,
And she faded slowly there,
Consumption has pity als.
For blue eyes and golden hair"
The tent erected to shield from sunbeam and
from rain the one beloved head, intensely bore in
lis Punishment and decorations testimony that the
hand which hung the etchngs and photographs and
the taste which arranged the rugs and furniture,
were directed by a refined and cultivated mind. The
young lady has been here but FIVE weeks and al
ready is beginning to experience change for the
better Nav she and her companions in suffering
return home restored to health and to the posses
sion of many years of hanniness.
1t is well to remember that Arizona is a very
large territory--114QO0 square mes-and that all
of it IS not to be re commended for diseased lungs