The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-02-16
Now Health and Life Go
Abreast Amid Balm
of Foot Hills.
SEE IT AND LIVE, CRY
did Ambition to "See Rome
and Die" Reversed by Hot
Springs of America.
~, Rem NEwsoME

,,is nom all over North America,
Wy ono seeking surcease from his
TO- particular thorn in the
%..S The world gets very small
~, Won come to this place, for
cannot stay here long but what
a. more almost forgotten char
.",,,s greet YOU face TO face that at
- n.sf time and distant place
soo,od ipto your life history. They
sere from New York and San
r..ncisco from the Rio Grande and
,,om the uncharted wilds of the
Hudson Bay region.
SOME pcoplc assert that De soto
disooyercd this health resort. but
no, seems Incredible. Had he
ssmpled this fountain OF youth IT
: hard 10 believe that the explorer
would have mot his grave in the
waters OF the Mississippi. Al any
rate the present day explorer comes
hack again and again and stays
anger There is something in the air
or perhaps 1t * in the water--that
enables him to shed the cares of tho
World and settle down to enjoying
what is good In Nfe.
There is no hurry or hustle here
Everything Is deliberate. Instead Of
4, rushing, iostling crowG or care
worn, busy people like those which
block Tulsas pavements. here is the
. same congestion. but each individual
s taking his time ana worrying
sbout nothing more critical than the
complexion Of the menu he shall
order for supper. This Is not sucH
an unimpOrtant thing, either, for
The air and water and the land
scape combine TO whet the appetite.
Coming out of the eNasperdtinS
winters OF northern oklahoma, the
change TO the balmy climate OF the
springs is like being transported TO
the Elysian fields even the street
cars will not run over you II they
can help It, and, most wonderful Of
al. all the autos are careful to sop,
even II It blocksdes the street, rather
han pass an open car door. These
same street cars cannot be boarded
at understood points, such as street
corners The streets are too irregu-
lar. SO there are signs. Cars stop
here" hung on the wires over the
track and sometimes painted on the
posts OF necessity the street car
service, like everything else, is de-
liberate, but il is regular, frequent
dNu GNilllOI Adplfs ll' NNi'tlN VI INV
city are nightmare to the stranger.
Winding around ends of nnis,
climbing up rayines, and in every
way defying the surveyors art, they
present such "A tangle as only few
VI the older inhabitants can solve
oit hand II is useless to try to find
any place by description-you just
have to stumble on it and remember
the landmarks. Even the street
house numbers begin wherever that
particular street begins to exist,
without regard 10 what IS on a
neghboring street. A map OF the
city looks like grandma's ball of
knitting after the kittens had played
with II.
outside of some plan;ng mILs am
Kindred Institutions, the chief indus
ny Of the 5000 residents here -
Keeping "roomers." You find all
grades from the modest furnished
room to tho stupendous hosiery
Nat harbor within it's walls enough
people to populate "a g0od-sized vii
age, And these hotels of various
lszes are everywhere. The proper
ilon Of private homes is ridiCulously
maiL Then the colorcd population,
which ls large percentage, thriyes
mostly off the wages of bathrO6m
attendance. These black folks, by
me way, are "a suave and prosperous
ooking bunch. They have one of
ne best looking church buildings in
ne city and 1t is out of debt, at
hat
Topographic Hot Springs q
Aaddled together in the winding val
tys and ravines between and
among three mountains" as we
Ne pleased TO call them, the poor
lenow who essays for the first time
MS sOO.toot climb is not disposed
dispute the designation. No mat
er what your social standing, 1t is
Aard 10 50 live that some Of your
He'gh6orS will not look down" on
w. ANA II Is paradise for roller
%aefs. Many places you can skate
.ot several blocks without any pro-
NsIon except the force OF gravl-
alton.
notwithstanding the shifting char
yer OF the population, we can finG
@tnohs tho residents a peculiar
Vpe or humanity. II defies de.
RMIPuon nut Is easily discernable
mn however, is not the "Arkansaw
~ commonly used as the butt ot
,NcuIe' This state and its peopl,
- no longer things to be laughed at
mere are few OF the old breed viii
'e'' put these are as distinctly,
crowd as the bls nket Indians ",
IN Tulsa. We have electricity fol
en- ana power and plenty Of CnddC
s ior tuel; but for all that stove,
10 Is the main reliance. The city
plenty Of the best drinking watei
"pouhded from mountain springs
teW people think of drinking II
81 OF the residents and transient
,n,, pottles from some notOrtDu
ys delivered to their doors ever
Tnlhg Just as they get their milk
b..a courthouse looks like il haC
To." intended for a handsome edi
~ out now has the appearance G
"A peen hung up and smoked
Tba IsI'ner used 10 treat his bacon
Inc, ".sn scnool is a beautiful struc
.ng aHG G me public school is impos
dsno,,I-lr Inlrcnes are plentiful, mos
4 .ng Vons, owing to the city be
N ns Huns out so extensively. find
bn,sseA eApedient TO have two or thre,
jons 9i worship IN different sec
a. me race track is. of course
ssIiulhg atti action, but lust nov
An nhpsea by an aviation field wher,
Uds slhg aviator gives YOU a 10,
Ine rate OF dollar a minute
~, me curiosities we cam,
to'gettlng was "A house which
Aean being so far from tn
buse Eoears the legend, Light