The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-04-02
Continued from last week.

Continued from last week.
side Of eternity, Il Is In such q place ~
this
There are. Of course, many persons
who cannot no 70 a sa~natorium. II
they could In some way learn the les.
son which the sanAtorioum teaches, I be.
lieve that most Of them would get well.
II IL the enforcement Of the routine
lifo IN the open air all OF the time;
absolute, continuous rest; the very best
Of food, aDd as much Of II as possible
together with the scientific care Of the
snnitorium which makes II valuable. All
these things the patient could get In
his own home--possiblyj but the cold
fat n that he never does get them. In
his ignorance, his lack Of sense. his en-.
tive lack OF experience In the matter Of
proper treatment, which makes the case
q the average patient 10 his " home
10 hopeless as II is. And just NO II In
his increased knowledge and experience
which come from life in tho sanatorium
which will cheer him up A. he sees his
cure approaching closer every day.
! have been appalled, in my journey
through this country by the lack Of
sense aud the refusal 20 pTo!it by the
FNHtTlfNff vi olNffNg WHlfH ~ NuONn
by the nealth.seeker. lie refuses ab.
s~olutaly 20 consider himself a sick man,
aud this ~ his big mistake. He per.
sists In the notion that he can live the
life Of the ordinary gad.about tourist,
and that the climate will IN some way
make him weII; or uc starves himself
from both food aud fresh air IN the
dismal environment Of ,ac ordinary
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climate and the world in general. The
truth IL that the majority OF these
people fail because lacy have gone
about their cure In the wrong way. BY
the life which they lead they MAKE II
impossible for the climate 20 10 them
any good; they destroy the recupera.
tive power which they would have IL
they lived In the right manner.
The Boarding. house q Z alse Beacon.
! spent several months In boarding.
houses, aud know the life that Is led
in them, aud the results which IL pro.
duces. All Of the resort towns in the
Southwest are flled with boarding.
houses, and In the winter the boarding.
houses are full Of 'lungers.' They flock
10 such towns as santa Fe, Albuquei.
que, Silver City, FL Paso, Phoenix, and
iuCboni llNtIullg ny Nut Nuouuhuuut anu
In those towns one sees them constant.
~, everywhere; in Denver, where they
were proverbially thick 4 few years
ago, one scarcely sees them NJ all
though. OF course, there are many OF
them In the city. II il useless to
describe these boarding.houses, for
clearinghouse are the same through.
out the world good, some very
bad. most are indifferent. Al Of them
are more or less dinay and poorly pro.
vided with comforts, even for a well
man. And in this country, the south.
west, whore everybody is auominably
fed. the b srding. house ~ correspond.
ingly poor. AZ long IN u person is
able 10 take care OF himself, he ~ wei.
come; il Is only the sick man who finds
il hard to get Il plrcc. Charity ~
largely n matter Of viewpoint. IL one
tries 10 take Il sick man on u stretch.
~ into q boarding house in the East,
or one who by his looks and his in.
ces-ant coughing proclaims his feared
disease, he will hardly be received with
| open arms. Aud II we remember how
many times that very thing il tried
in such II city ~ Denver, W. can hard.
~ ccnsurc roldness aud n lack of rhari.
ty.