The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-08-27
FLORIDA GIVES
INDUCEMENTS
Offers Better Attractions to the
HOmeseeker Than Other States
LIFE IN THE OPEN AIR
Living Here Much Cheaper Than in the
Norih-Opportunities For Any Able
Bodied Man-fine Public Schools

There are some people who would
gladly come to Florida to live could
they see their way to support here
themselves and families. But the real
point in this matter of supporting
family is not so much the income as
the Outgo, the expenses. If you can
live here cheaper by doing away with a
considerable part of the expenses you
must bear in the north, then one does
not need to earn as much as he requires
there; and if he does earn as much or
even more, as there is no reason why
one cannot do so here, then he can save
more or have more of life's comforts
or even of its Injuries.
There are hundreds, yes thousands,
of families in the northeast and west
whose breadwinner, the husband and
father, just barely earns support
from year to year. The family is COM
PEELED to live in very limited manner
because of very limited income. The
house is small its location not the best,
the food is scanty or nearly so, the
clothing barely sufficient, the winter
clothing hardly that, and the fuel bill
seems to be always growing more and
more although every effort is made to
get along with the least possible until
in the long and cold winter months it
is an almost constant SILVER. To this
may be added the Doctors bill.
For such a family, and there are hun
dreds of them, to- come to Florida,
would almost be like escaping from
sort of prison life to freedom; from al
most psnury to reasonable degree of
comfort. What such family could
save in fuel, clothing and Doctors bills
would pay the food bill.
But think of the contrast in the two
lives! There more than half the year
spent in four or five close rooms, either
too hot or too cold; the sunshine
rarity, one hour out doors for five or
ten in the house; dull, gray, gloomy
skies, mud, slush, icy walks, nature
covered with the pail of death, trees
like skeletons, and oh, we'll the writer
need not draw out the picture more
fully.
Here plenty of sunshine, clouds and
gloom a rarity, sunshine natures great
remedy for bodily and mental ills, the
great care and the great preventative of
disease. 1t cheers, it stimulates, 1t in
spires. Compare the statistics of the
two sections. say here and in New
England, and see how many suicides
there and how few here.
All know that there is nothing so
helpful to health of body and mind as
an outdoor life and plenty of sunshine.
Here little fuel is needed; here but
little clothing and that the lightest
kind, is required; and it lasts longer.
Here, with patch of sweet pota-
toes, and the little garden twenty or
thirty feet square, large part OF the
family living can be had, raised in the
off hours of the husband, perhaps helped
by wife or child; and this garden is not
for one or two months, but for twelve
months in the year, for something use
full can be growing at all times. But
what can a man do to earn something?
An ableboded man, willing to work,
can have no real difficulty in earning
living anywhere here almost. If he
should not get the work he prefers at
first he will later on. An effeminate
sort of person might have some trouble
to get along, but man wOul not.
And think of getting away from the
almost continual clouds and gray,
gloomy skies, from the chill and disas-
trous east winds, from being cooped
up half the year or more in few
small rooms, from the slush sleet and
ice; from big bills for wood and coal,
for clothing, for medicine and doctors,
from the "egrims" and that long list
of evils which man in the north is heir.
And think of the delicious climate
and living out of doors in it, the sweet
est, healthiest climate ever breathed
by man; of the beautiful orange groves
and the fragrant orange blossoms, Of
the mocking bird, of the stimulating
ozone borne on the perpetual breezes
that continually sweep over this PENN
sula from the Atlantic ocean on the
one side and from the Gulf of Mexico
on the other. Think of our splendid
pine forests with their health-giving
balmy OdOr, our magnificent ocean
beaches as the finest health resorts in
the world, of our innumerable lakes
and streams with the most and finest
fish in the world; of our forests anu
field with quail, turkey, deer, bear;
think of our children growing up in
country which now is comparatively a
new land with all the promise and po-
tentialities of such new land; good
schools, churches, and, as the auction
eer would say, "many other things too
numerous to MENTION" When you
think of these things, when you fairly
consider the pros and cons of this
matter, make up your mind to come to
Florida-and come. H. j., in Or
La ndo Ranorfor.Cfar