bly entirely regain his
health. He also is careful and conservative in statement, and therefore
commands serious attention:

"Riverside, Cal., May 2, 1893.

"Dear Miss Sanborn: To recommend any place to an invalid is to an
experienced climate-hunter no doubt, at times, a duty,--certainly
it is a duty from which he shrinks.

"One does not see so many advanced cases of pulmonary disease here
as at either Asheville or Colorado Springs. The thousands of miles
of alkali, sage-brush, and desolation might explain that, but it
does seem to me that a much larger proportion of consumptives are
'doing well' in this country than in those.

"_Pure dry air_, _pure water_, and _clean dry soil_ are the
climatic elements essential for the pulmonary invalid, and for most
others. These conditions can be found at Riverside and its vicinity
during a large proportion of the year.

"Here, too, are cool walks, with sunshine or shade, as may be
desired, and things on every side to interest. For, unfortunately,
the man with a sore chest has a brain and a spinal cord to be
stimulated and fed, not to speak of those little heartstrings
undiscovered by the anatomist, and which yet tug and pull mightily
in a far country.

"In short, it would seem that any consumptive in an early stage of
his disease who does not thrive at a moderate altitude would do
well to come here and to stay--that is, if he will remember that
all the climate is out-of-doors."

My own troublesome throat is almost as good as new, and I am proud to
name my physician, _Outdoors, M.D._ Come and consult the same unfailing
restorer.

I have given, according to my humble ability, _la verdad cierta_--the
absolute truth--about the small fraction of the State known as Southern
California.

I came with gargle and note-book, but long ago gave up the former; and
as for these jottings, I offer them to those who want to see this
much-talked-of Earthly Paradise as in a verbal mirror. And to all a
cordial _au revoir_!

"Adieu to thee again!
A vain adieu!
There can be no farewell to scene like thine:
The mind is colored by thy every hue."

KATE SANBORN'S BOOKS.

Adopting an Abandoned Farm.
16mo. Boards, 50 cents.

"'Adopting an Abandoned Farm' has as much laugh to the square inch as
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