Valdez daily prospector., 1914-02-28
BOOST VALDEZ AS
 A HEALTH RESORT
Long Letter of Mrs. Alfred B. Hes is Printed in Washington Post
 Renew Vigor in Valdez.

resort:
 l Valdez has q press agent.
 Valdez is not city in Mexico, or Peru, or Spain, and it isn't patent medicine or hair restorer. It's a seaport in Alaska, located on Valdez bay highly spoken of in various ad- dresses in and out of congress. It ap- pears to be the spot that Ponce de Leon was looking for, but failed to locate.
 Appreciation of Health Seeker.
 Mrs. Alfred Bennett Hes, 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,
 q predict that the time is not far distant when Alaska, especially south ern Alaska, will be famous health | resort. It is the best place I have found--and my travels have been quite extensive-for jdded nerves, ex- hausted vitality and all the pains and aches that these demons engender. Like Japhet in search of a father, I have wandered around this conti nent and portion of Europe. dili- gently seeking for that rarest of jew els-health.
 Lantern in hand. like Diogenes, l have peregrinated from one part of the globe to another, grasping at straws, hanging on to cobweDs, clutch ing at rainbows with grim death, skulls and crossbones. grave diggers and undertakers wildly pursuing me. Playing tag with such horrors was finally too much for me, and fled to Alaska, where the purity and crys- talline quality of the north pole-ish atmosphere might dispel the voracious microbes of disease.
 "In Washington I hung, like neck lace, around the necks of divers doc tors, beseeching the into make me we'll. 1 was drugged, dieted almost electrocuted I furnished a fine in come for all the specialists, including osteopaths, therapeutics, nerve and rest cure faddists and did not neg lect to consult Christian Scientists.
 Several drug stores branched out into huge emporiums and gorged | &l,o,, ,N1x 1ryif medicine people waxed financially corpulent at my expense. l was hu- initiated by being regarded as a semi invalid, a namby-pamby weaklins. My intellect waned until it's di- mensions resembled the fine point of a cambric needle, but not as sharp. A masnifying 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 1 am in high arctic rubbers, trudging around in the snow; eating like a hobo or worse, and sleeping so soundly that d whole or chestra of Gabriel's trumpets could hardly awaken .me. could dangle from flying trapeze, jump through a burning hoop at g circus, outrival Prof. Cook in climbing Mount McKin- ley, run races with gorilla. or beat any army officer of the United States army in fifty-mile bareback ride.
 "The moral of all these egotistic remarks is that there never was a more healthful country than Alaska, particularly Valdez, which is locat- ed on Valdez bay, and has all the life giving idiosyncracies of Atlantic City, minus the mob. It should also be advertised as beauty-maker, for it excels all the lotions of all the beauty specialists ever concocted. It is with regret that my modesty forbids me to pose for this advertisement, but most of the women here can.
 "I have, however, upon several oc- casions, through the newspapers, sounded horns and beaten drums for Alaska marvel that some of our Washington friends who are worn to a frazzle every winter by the gayties and dissipation of official life, and who are really in nt.ed of some de- cided change, do not come up here to recuperate.
 We have the purest air on earth. It comes laden with the ozone of myriads of miles of ice and snow, wherein no germ can exist. It is fill ed with the salt breath of the sea, the healing of primeval pine trees, the tonic of high mountain peaks.