The National tribune., 1910-10-06

Not once during the past summer mas
the temperature gone to 100 degrees.
The comrades will agree with US that
it is always agreeable in the shade. and
that the nights are always comfortable
for sleeping. A sultry night has yet
to be experienced. Except during an
hour or two in the day, there is always
a breeze, and in the shade the air is
most agreeable. 4
The humidity is. less than in the
States North and Northwest. At night
there is more or less dew. and while a
person cam notice it on the clothing if
out for some time, it never causes a
cold or iIconycnience. The evenings
are always delightful, and the porch
or veranda is favorite place to sit
until n late hour; and look up at the
sky. fuller, OF stars and brighter than
anywhere else in this country
While a good many houses of ST
Cloud have screened windows, the even
ings can be spent on the open porches
without annoyance from mOsketoes, a
fact as surprising to the Northern citi-
Zens of the town as that the tmepera-
ture is so uniformly enjoyable.
Vital statistics show that the lOngeV-
ity of the human race is greater in
warm climates than in more rigorous
latitudes--a concrete statement indicat-
ing that radical temperature changes
are conditions adverse to long life.
latitude 25 degrees to 30 degrees north,
and altogether a region free from rad
ical changes in temperature.
The opinion of scientists as to the
beneficial effects that a uniform tenn
peratura being conducive to long life
and physical comfort is borne out by
the experience of year by hundreds
of NOrthern-born men at st. Cloud as
also by citizens native to the State
There has been no serious illness of
local origin among the hundreds who
spent months living in tents at st. Cloud
under unusual conditions of cooking,
eating and sleeping Scores of men
and women came crippled up with
and other ailments, and in
the sunshine and open air soon found
complete relief.
With practically 1000 people during
the Fall, Winter and Spring, besides
thousands of visitors. the death roll of
more than year at st. Cloud shows
less than dozen names, and all were
chronic cases. More deaths occurred
comrades who left early in the
Spring and encountered cold and
weather in their Northern
homes in the last few months than
passed away at st. Cloud during the past
IA months. There were four or five
cases of fever, with one death, but this
has been typhoid year all over the
Union, the Boards of Health of nearly
all the States reporting more cases than
for many years. That there was not
more sickness at st. Cloud is due to the
fact that the climate. is uniform and
the water good, because many OF the
were subjected for time to
inconvenience and irregularities in eat
ing and sleeping entirely different from
long years of regular home life in the
North. This condition no longer exists
at st. Cloud, for everything is now well
along the lines of proper
living
country has more good homes and with
all the comforts of life than st. Cloud
BY the time this paper is in the hands
of readers it Is expected the water tower
will be in position for the towns water
system, with plentiful supply of pure
water from an artesian well 912 feet
deep. Poles are up and wires stretched
along the principal streets for electric
lights, and the great dynamos will soon
be in operation. Ice is already being
furnished from q home factory, and |
business operations are carried on thru !
the only National bank in the County, |
the capital and deposits of which be-
long to the citizens of the town. Tele- |
phones can be found in many homes, |
and gardens are beginning TO supply |
many good things for the table, and |
these supplies will multiply in accord |
ance with the industry and intelligence |
given to the cultivation of the soil. Each |
crop has its season, and it is only |
question ofrproperncultivation in season |
to get results. .Bs