Evening star., 1914-02-10
WHY LNE ANYWHERE
But IN VALDEZ, ALASKA
Mrs. Alfred Bennett-Iles Makes II
Sure That Worlds Health
Resort Is There.
Cure-All for All the Ills That Flesh
Is Heir to-Scenery and Good
Feeding Thrown In.
has a press agent.

Valdez has press agent.
Valdez Is not a city in Mexico. or
Peru. or Spain. and it isn't a patent
medicine or & hair restorer. It's a sea-
port in Alaska. located on Valdez bay.
highly spoken of in various addresses
In and out of Congress. It appears to
be the spot that Ponce de Leon was
looking for, but failed to locate.
Appreciation of Healthseeker.
Mrs. Alfred Bennett-Iles. writing TO
Mrs. R. A. Hatcher of Washington. has
the following to say about Valdez:
Come up to Valdez. Come up TO
Valdez. Oyez. oyez.
II predict that the time is not far
distant when Alaska, especially southern
Alaska. Will be d famous health resort.
1t is the best place 1 have found--and
my travels have been quito extensive
FOR jaded nerves, exhausted vitality
and all the pains and aches that these
demons cngender.
Like Japhet in search of father,
I have wandered around this continent
and n portion of Europe, diligently seek
ing for that rarest of jewels-health;;
Lantern in hand. like Diogenes,
have peregrinated from one part OF the
globe to another. grasping at straws,
hanging on to cobwebs. clutchinS at
rainbows with grim death, skulls and
crossbones, grave digsers and under
takers wildly pursuing me. Playing
tag with such horrors finally was too
much for me. and [ fed to Alaska.
where the purity and crystalline quality
of the north pole-;sh atmosphere might
dispel the voracious microbes of
disease.
In Washington I hung. like a neck
lace. around the necks of divers doc
tors, beseeching them to make me well.
T of ali
cuted. I furnished a fine income for all
the specialists, including osteopaths.
Therapeutics. nerve and rest cure fad
dists and did not neglect to consult
Christian Scientists.
Several drug stores branched out
into huge emporiums and gorged them
selves with my money. Patent medi-
cine people waxed financially corpuient
at my expense l was humiliited by
being regarded as q semi-inyalid, a
namby pamby weakling.
My intellect waned until its dimen-
sions resembled the fine point of u
cambric needle, but not as sharp. i
magnifying glass had to be applied to
discover my brains. Indigestion and
insomnia overwhelmed me.
Renewed vigor in Valdez.
Now. me voice! A flying leap to
Alaska, and here I am in high arctic
rubbers. trudging around in the snow;
eating like a hobo. or worse. and sleep
ing SO soundly that a whole orchestra
of Gabriers trumpets could hardly
awaken me. ] could dangle from fly
ng t.apeze, jump through a burning
hoop at circus. outrival Prof. Cook
1hmbing Mount Mckinley. .un races
with a gorilla, or beat any army officer
of the United States Army In a fifty
mile bareback ride.
The moral of all these egotistic re-
NJ rks Is that there never as a more
healthful country than Alaska. particu-
iariy Valdez, hich is located on VAL
dez bay, and has all the life-giving
idiosyncras:es of Atlantic City, minus
the mob. 1t should also be advertised
as a be .uty maker, for it excels all
ever concocted. 1t is with regret that
my nodesty forbids me to pose for this
advertisement. but most of the women
here can.
sions, through the newspapers, sounded
horns and beaten drums for Alaska.
marvel that some of our Washington
friends who are worn to fragile every
winter by the gayties and dissipation OF
official life. and who are really in need
of some decided change. do not come up
here TO recuperate.
We have the purest air on earth. 1t
comes laden with the ozone of myriads
Of miles of ice and snow. wherein no
germ can exist. 1t is filed with the salt
breath Of the sea, the healing Of priineval
pine trees, the tonic of high mountain
peaks.
While you In the east are beset with
billiards. and all kinds of cyclonic dis
asters this winter. / am at this moment
sitting with my window open, and today
is the first of January. We have many
times gone rowing in open boats upon
the Bay of Valdez. which contains no
Ice. Ponder on that.
Not hea th-beStowing characteristic
Is lacking And as for scenery-well, l
am not easily squelched. but words fl
me.
All Modern Conveniences.
in Valdez you can get steam-heated
apartments with electric lights. private
bath, etc. You can eat all the varieties
of fruits and vegetables your tremendous
appetite will engender. Porterhoust
steaks travel this way. Also young lambs
and fat turkeys and chickens.
The waters abound with the finest
salmon and halibut, and as to game.
there is every palatable creature that
va can desire; ptarmigans aalore-nai-
lard ducks, deer. moose, bears-what
more do you want
Come on and see for yourselves. Don't
take my word
This is your country; 4 part of your
United States. You should be patriotic
and patronize 1t for a change instead
Of foreign countries Pay US a visit.
You can live here to be as old as Wu
Ting-fang says he will-250 years
People seldom die In this land of the
midnight sun. Physicians and drug
gists would starve ii they made Their
money from the misfortunes of others.
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