The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-11
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Birmingham Lady Likes Texas O the Editor of The Age-Herald.

10 the Ed1tor or The Age-Herald. I thought it might be of interest to some of your readers who suffer from the ills to which Birmingham flesh IS heir, to head of d place where conditions are so different. As a health resort west l lexas IS better, for many, than Colorado or New Mexico; the elevation not bellg enough to affect the heart.
 This town seems to be on plane, but is 1000 feet higher above the level of the sea than the top of the Jefferson County bank building. It is the county seat of Tom Green county, one of the largest | in Texas. The population Is l30OO Churches and schools are nourishing. There are high school and four gram l mar schools for whites and a school for Mexicans and one for negroes. The courthouse is of stone and a hand somer building than ours. The railroad d stations are really artistic and have beau tiful evergreens around them. l San Angelo is in the midst of cattle and sheep ranches, is the chief shipping point for wool and mohair (Angora goats hair) in west Texas.
 People leave doors unlocked and noth- ing IS stolen. The streets are full ot au- tomopiles and nobody speeds. The re- | port of the district attorney for last year shows less crime than seems possible. It seldom rains, but a clear little river uiS thi otoh AHc toWiit duQ lIdht 1OnCnO, a mile away, furnishes the town with water. Fishing is a favorite recreation. The air seems to act as smoke con 1 sumer, for l never see smoke coming i, from the houses, and ones face never gets dirty.
 This climate is good for various dis eases-asthma, rheumatism, too close at- I tention to business, etc. But 1t is we'll to look as healthy as you can when applying | for board, for landlords are so afraid of l harboring tuberculosis and quickly rele- gate suspects to Carlsbad, 15 miles away where is a large sanitarium for the treat ment of that disease. I think it safer to board here than in Birmins ham, for | they are so careful here.
 It is said to be good for near-s sightedness
 to exercise the eye by looking over these 1 vast plains A real estate man told me that several years ago an acquaintance l of his came here to live He took him to 1 ride out of town and pointed out some l houses by the side of the road. The man
 could not see them. Sometime after thai 1 he took him out again. and he could see
 them plainly. But as to that, our real
 estate men can visualize quite clearly
 with all their limitations.
 | They do not seem to suffer here from
 badness as they do with us. It is the
 rule for men to wear hair on their heads
 even after they are 25 years old. The pastOr ol the cnurcn l attend has more
 hair than lpur preachers in Birmingham
 and breaches good sermon, too. If "a
 change is desired by anyone in Birming.
 ham. let him come to San Angelo Tex
 Respectfully.
 MRS T.. c. McDONALD
 The sealy, 4o2 OalSes Street. San Angelo Tex, April 2, 1914.
 Insult to Underwood
 To the Editor of The Age-Herald. Il This telegram of R. F. Hobson to Mir
 Underwood is an index of Hobson's per-
 verted soul. Pretending to congratulate
 Mir. Underwood. he insults him and every
 other loyal democrat in tho state. \ Tho telegram assarts that Mfr. Under.
 wood is the agent of the whisky intsrests
 of America and that the men who voted
 for MT. Underwood in Alabama are al whisky men. Democrats of Alabama re-
 member this gratuitous insult of. Hob.
 sons, Sincerely.
 JOHN A. ROGERS, ' Gainesville, Apfii es 1o1A