The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1916-11-25

is easily reached from all centers of the
northern, eastern and middle States
Trunk lines touch every coast town.
Daily trains pass my door in season.
filled with excursionist5. Twentv-six
hours is the average time to the great
cities. A few dollars is sufficient for
the round trip, with unlimited stop
overs. Comparisons are often odious,
but l cannot help thinking Of the Jour-
ney, twice as long, to Florida and the
much longer and more monotonous one
to California. Ia coming to the Gulf
coast one has hardly time to get tired
before he scents the orange blossoms
and the iessamine.
"Second, Climate. The Coast tenn
perature is ideal. Government figures
place the yearly average at 81 degrees.
Average for January 81 degrees, for
July and August 81 degrees. For the
last year our outside thermometer did
not show 80 degrees. Compare this with
che temperature of any State not on
the Gulf Coast. Our winters need no
enconium, but it is not everyone who
laows the seonditioEs OF an average
coast summer Free from the extremes
of the north, famed by sea breezes night
and day, except at times, few hours in
the forenoon. We have never enjoyed
home summers as we do here. The
rainfall is about 81 inches annually.
we'll distributed, t8 inches in winter, l.
in spring, 20 in summer and ~ III au-
tumn."
DR.. Porter, in his paper, took up tie
question of storms on the coast and
showed conclusively that storms were
less frequent in the section he was dis
cussing than in any other part of the
country bordering on coasts. In this
connection he said:
81 am often asked about our storms.
Many forget that our Gulf coast line
from Tampa to Brownsville is approx
mately as long as the Atlantic coast
from Key west to Boston, longer than
from Boston to Chicago. George H.
Davis, Of Ford, Bacon & Davis, New
York and New Orleans, has prepared
an instructive chart, showing the rec
ord OF 402 storms OF over 90 miles We
locity. Of these storms 202 occurred on
the Great Lakes, l24 on the Atlantic
coast, and 56 on the Gulf Coast, yet the
distances of these lines is about the
same. From 1919 to 1916 there have
been recorded eight west India storms
or one in II years on cur coast. The
chart shows conclusively that the Gulf
Coast has not had as many storms as
the territory between New York and
the Rocky Mountains, the proportion
being 56 to POP or little more than
one-fourth."
"Fourth Altitude. A low altitude
is an advantage to many people. While
high attitudes are often sought, some
times with questionable Intelligence, in
case of asthma and tuberculosis, the
sea level is undoubtedly helpful to pa
tients needing arteriar support. Wien
the blood vessels have become inelastic
and the bronchial yenules distended by
chronic inflammatory change, low
barometic preSsue is indicated. The
danger in arterial-sclerosis is that blood
pressure may break through the weaken.
ed wall, forming clot, resulting in
| regional paralysis, or local hemorrh-
age in any organ. Barometie pressure
and thermometrie mildness are i'm.
portant aids in the Limitation OF these
add the therapeutic value OF the drink
ing water, the better adjusted diet with
more of vegetables, fruits AMI sea food
the open air life aud freedom from
business cares. Many have found thi
region well suited to the wrecked
nervous system. The neuresthemi'
comes with his long train of ills. in
somnia, Indigestion, functional hear
trouble, mental depression and genera
wretchedness without adequased organic
disease. After few months the pulls,
softens, the eyes brighten, the min
is clearer, sleep comes, digestion i'm
proves, the urine less cloudy. All thi
without medicine, for The nervous bank
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