THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK.
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"CLIMATE without activity
DOES NOT CURE."
"The search for the unearned increment
in bodily health brings many to Califor
nia who might better have remained at
home. The invalid finds health in Cali
fornia only if he is strong enough to grasp
it. To one who can spend his life out of
of doors it is indeed t,iue that 'our pines
are trees of health,' but to one confined
to tin? house there is little gain in the
new conditions. To those accustomed to
the close heat of Eastern rooms the Cali
fornia house seems depressingly chilly.
"I know of few things more pitiful
than the annual migration of hopeless
consumptives to Los Angeles, Pasadena
and San Diego. The Pullman cars in the
winter are full of sick people, banished
from the East by physicians who do not
know what else to do with their incur
able patients. They go to the large ho
tels of Eos Angeles or Pasadena, and pay
a rate they cannot afford. They shiver
in half-warmed rooms ; take cold after
cold; their symptoms grow alarming;
their money wastes away; and finally,
in utter despair, they are hurried back
homeward, perhaps to die on board the
train. Or it may be that they choose
cheap lodging-houses, at prices more
nearly within their reach. Here again
they sutler for want of home food, home
comforts and home warmth, and the end
is just the same.
"It is true that '6ne-lunged people"
form a considerable part of the popula
tion of Southern California. It is also
true that no part of our Union has a bet
ter population, and that many of these
men and women are now as robust and
vigorous as one could desire.. Hut this
happy change is possible only to those
who are in the first stages of the disease.
Out of door life and physical activity
enable the system to suppress the germs
of disease, but climate without activity
does not cure. So far as climate is con
cerned many parts of the arid regions in
Arizona, Xew Mexico and Colorado are
more favorable than California, because
they are protected from the chill of the
sea."
Thus writes David Starr Jordan, in the
current issue of the Atlantic Monthly.
The extract is quoted here that it may
serve the double purpose of warning and
encouragement to such as are looking to
wards the long-leaf pine region of North
Carolina as a place of cure for diseases
of throat and lungs.
Let the warning be put first, expressed
in pure kindness, and with the deepest
sympathy for all who need it. It is em
bodied in one of President Jordan's preg
nant clauses which I have used as the
title of this article. "Climate without
activity does not cure." This is just as
true of the climate of Moore county,
Xorth Carolina, as it is of that of South
ern California. It is utterly useless for
people who cannot take a reasonable
amount of out-of-door exercise to visit
these sections or any other in the world
in the expectation of cure, or even any
relief that is worth going so far to seek.
Steam-heated looms are pretty much the
same thing the world over, and there is
very little advantage to the invalid who
simply exchanges his steam heated at
mosphere in New York or Hoston for
another at Pasadena or Pinehurst. It is
the touch of nature that will heal. There
must be out-of-door activity everv da v.
The body must soak in the sunshine.
The lungs must fill with large breaths of
pine scented air. The people with one
lung who have obtained a reasonable
amount of health and strength in the
pine woods region, succeeded because
they had brave hearts and a sufficient
amount of bodily strength to back up
their determination to keep in the open
air until Nature should have a fair chance
to do its beneficent, work upon them.
Put who shall say just when that stage
is reached after which it is useless for
the sufferer to seek another climate 'i It
is often difficult, if not impossible, for
such a person to judge correctly his own
condition. The judgement of friends
who are constantly with him may be
equally at fault. In such cases decision
must rest with the physician. And he
cannot be too careful in the advice which
he gives. He ought to use his con
science in this mater as much as his in
telligence. He must not content him
self by saying "While there is life there
is hope," when he knows in his heart it
is not so. It is such mistaken kindness
as amounts to cruelty to send incurable
patients a thousand or three thousand
miles away from home to inevitable dis
appointment and homesickness. If the
patient insists upon going in spitej of
what the candid doctor has said, that is
another thing. The doctor ha unbur
dened his conscience and may sleep as
quietly as his night-bell will let him.
So much for the warning, but all the
rest of it is encouragement. President
Jordan says there are many parts of the
arid regions of Arizona, New Mexico
and Colorado that are more favorable for
health seekers than California because
they are protected from the chill of the
sea. He might have added the sandy
upland of Central North Carolina to
these favored sections, for although not
so far distant from the sea as the regions
mentioned, yet it is sufficiently remote
for protection. The East wind's tooth is
long and sharp, but he cannot bite
through a belt of pine forest more than a
hundred miles thick.
And for' Eastern people this .place of
refuge is not a week's journey distant.
As compared with California, or even
Colorado, it lies just next door, or around
the corner. The journey is counted in
hours rather than days. If needs must,
the invalid can get back to his home, or
his friends can come to him, quickly.
Expense and strength are saved, and one
of the chief elements of homesickness is
eliminated.
But, perhaps, the most encouraging
picture that can be held up before the
eyes of one who proposes to seek health
in this "piney woods country" is the
contrast in the conditions of life at hotels
and boarding houses in such a village as
Pinehurst, when compared with what
President Jordan tells us concerning
such life at the popular California re
sorts. If any one pays hotel rates at
Pinehurst which he cannot afford it is
his own fault, for he can have perfectly
comfortable and home-like surrround
ings, a warm room and excellent food at
a rate which is within reach of a very
modest purse. Pinehurst has, to be sure,
in the Holly Inn a luxurious hotel where
a reasonable rate is charged for accom
modations of the very highest order.
Hut it has beside, in its many small home
like boarding houses, its furnished cotta
ges and suites of rooms, at varying rates
of expense, such thoughtful provision
for the needs of "all sorts and conditions"
of guests, as cannot be found elsewhere
upon the American continent. At Pine
hurst there is no need to purchase com
fort for the body at such .an exorbitantly
high rate that comfort of mind is quite
destroyed; nor yet to purchase" "only dis
comfort at the lower pi-ice within one's
means. "From each guest according to
his ability, to each guest according . to
his need," is the rule of this little New
England village among the pines.
The sum of the whole matter is this :
Don't go away from home to any place
in search of a cure for pulmonary disease
unless your physician can look . you
squarely, in the eye and tell you that you
have-a fair chance of recovery, if you
go, don't waste your money and strength
in travelling three thousand miles or
more if you can obtain better results less
than a thousand miles from home. ... if
you go, be sure you go to a place where
you can get the comforts you need at the
.price you can afford. If you go make an
iron-bound resolution that you will take
active exercise out of doors every day of
decent weather. Make it and stick to it.
If you go, buy a ticket for Pinehurst, and
go soon, before you get your next cold.
Pussy In Vt.v Wise.
An East side woman has a cat that
can tell when a letter comes addressed
for her. ' 11
The owner of the cat spoke, of its
ability in this direction' to a friend who
was making a call.
"A letter!" exclaimed the caller in
surprise. , 1 ' . r
"Yes, a letter, and if you don't believe
it I will prove it to you. Just wait a
minute until I direct one."
The woman left the room, and in a few
minutes returned with a sealed envelope
addressed to Miss Pussy, No. Bangor
street, city. -
"Now, said she, if you will kindly
post that for me tonight and be here
when the postman comes around on his
first delivery tomorrow morning you
will see that I am telling you facts."
The caller mailed the letter as she was
asked, and was at' her friend's home
promptly the next morning. ;
Soon the bell rang, and shortly after
ward the servant entered with-a bundle
of letters, among which was that for
Miss Pussy. ..-,
Sure enough, pussy at once showed
an interest, and in a moment! had
pushed aside with her paw the envelope
addressed to her. ;
The visitor was about to express her
surprise, when the -woman of the house
said: "Wait a moment. She'll open it
and eat up all that Is in the envelope."
Scarcely had she said this when Miss
Pussy had torn the envelope open and
was enjoying her letter very much.
The envelope was filled with catnip.
Augusta (Me.) Journal.
Mr. J. "What would you suggest,
doctor, for insomnia?" Dr. Pillsbury
"I would suggest that you attempt to sit
up with a sick man and give him his
medicine every hour for a few nights."
Harper x Weekly .
"Don't you think that Maud's affection
for athletics is a pretense V" "No I do
not. I know she is engaged to a whole
football oqxqu." Indianapolis Journal
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Pinehurst, N. C.
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