consumption, bronchitis, catarrh and hay fever. Anyone going in
search of health who has improved by the change should remain where the
improvement took place lest by returning home and being again subjected
to the former climatic conditions which caused the disease the
improvement be lost and the old disease re-established with increased
severity.

Most sick people who are in need of a change live in a humid atmosphere
where the winters are extremely cold and the summers uncomfortably hot,
and to be benefited by a change must seek a climate in which the
opposite conditions prevail. The climate of the southwest furnishes
just what such invalids require. The sick who need cold or damp
weather, if there be any such, can be accommodated almost anywhere, but
those who want a warm, dry climate must go where it can be found. Not
every invalid who goes in search of health finds a cure, as many who
start on such a journey are already past help when they leave home.
When a case is hopeless the patient should not undertake such a trip,
but remain quietly at home and die in peace among friends.

As already intimated the climate of the Colorado basin is ideal in
winter, but becomes very hot in summer. Its low altitude, rainless
days, cloudless skies and balmy air form a combination that is
unsurpassed and is enjoyed by all either sick or well. The heat of
summer does not create sickness, but becomes monotonous and tiresome
from its steady and long continuance. Many residents of the Territory
who tire of the heat and can afford the trip take a vacation during the
summer months and either go north to the Grand Canon and the mountains
or to the Pacific Coast. Every summer witnesses a hegira of sun baked
people fleeing from the hot desert to the mountains or ocean shore in
search of coolness and comfort.

Life in the tropics, perhaps, inclines to indolence and languor,
particularly if the atmosphere is humid, but in a dry climate like that
of Arizona the heat, although sometimes great, is never oppressive or
debilitating. It has its lazy people like any other country and for
the same reason that there are always some who were born tired and
never outgrow the tired feeling, but Arizona climate is more bracing
than enervating.

The adobe house of the Mexican is a peculiar institution of the
southwest. It may be interesting on account of its past history, but
it is certainly not pretty. It is nothing more than a box of dr