The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-06-13
FLORIDA AS A SUMMER RESORT"
(By Moses F olsom. }

A warning has been given out by American
Medicine, medical publication of authority, as to
conditions in Europe, which must for a long time
stand in the way of tourists gratifying their desire
10 see the wrecks of war; except at personal risk,
large cost and Inconvenience.
Transportation is demoralized, food is scarce
and high priced and on top of all is the presence
Of much disease as the result Of suffering and pri-
walton. Many consumptive patients are to be
found In every community. Soldiers are on duty
in nearly every country, the war has not ended
in seine CT Them, and shooting affairs, if not actual
BEETLES, are of frequent occurrence.
No citizen can go to Europe without a passport
and good reasons must be given to get one. The
visitor is questioned at every port CT debarkaton
and at every frontier, at every railroad STATEN his
ba9Bage IS searched end he must officially register
himself at police stations in cities where he stops.
He must pay fee every time his passport is ex-
ahmed Fee takers stare visitors in the face at
every turn, no; to speak of tips on every side The
Language is different at every boundary and very
much mixed between them. Foreign money is at
to avoid being held up. Red tape binds every
movement Ii is not likely that passports and for
egn restrictions will be relaxed for long time to
come Anent this situation in connection with the
near approach Of the time when the palm leaf
and electric fans are busy in American cities of
the money belt Of the east clear through the cereal
belt Of he west to the mines in the mountains there
is very Little hope for the weary except tic to
Florida. To all such, most conservative and
reliable journal, the Christian Science Monitor, CT
fers The following comforting facts,
The Progressive people Of Florida have awak-
to the fact thai they nave delightful summer as
well as a delightful winter climate to offer the
people ct the states and provinces CT the north.
'Nsitots who have spent the summer months in the
beautiful southern peninsula, the Italy of Amer
lea, have been reporting complete satisfaction with
the)eEperience for the years past Every year more
tourists from the north have taken up summer resi-
dence in the winter resorts Of Florida. AS they
have returned homeward they have told hotel
keepers In Tampa, in Jacksonville, or in Talla-
hassee What splendid summer they have spent
in Orlando, OF St. Augustine, or Daytona, or West
Palm Beach, or Miami, or Clearwater or DeLand,
or Kissimmee, or Lakeland, or Punta Gorda, or
Key West, but only recently have the hotel keep
ers and others graspcd the possibilities that such
testimonials opened up.
These familiar with the tropics and sub-tropics
will tell you that the air in those climates is always
cool in the shade his is particularly true of
Florida, which catches the air currents from the
Atlantic as we'll as those from the Gulf of Mexico
AS matter of fact, breezes from the ocean and
gulf cool every part of Florida and the temporal
ture an average is ten degrees lower than it is
through more northern southern states and the CEN
haI states
Il was under The heading of ''F5rida as Sum-
mr. Resort that The Boston paper heralded this
uujh among northern city jewellers who live on
canned fruits aud vegetables, whose household fires
are canned in aa5 pipes. whose music comes from
within talking machines, whose dramas and scenery
are canned in celluloid, whose water is pped from
distant sources who see at night with electricity