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outdoors." I think von would never die by hanging even if you were 

 obliged to swelter in summer and shiver in winter. Some people may 

 have to staj (nil doors. It may be necossaiy for tlioit) to do that to 

 save i heir lives. On the other hand, persons may live in the best 

 atmosphere the country affords and yet die with consumption. I have 

 in my mind now a family of strong, hearty, vigorous people appar- 

 ently, living right under the shadow of these health-giving moun 

 tains and yet every member of that family dies before they reach old 

 age from consumption. Now why have they done that for genera- 

 tions right there in that healthy climate. Why have they done it? 

 Because of the dread they have of fresh air. They are afraid of a 

 draft, afraid to open their windows. Why the most delicate person 

 we have had in camp is not fraid of a draft or an open window or 

 the night air. Some people are so afraid of the night air, w 7 hen 

 the night air is the only air we have in the night; it is a mere 

 bugaboo. There is nothing in it. It is only the person who lives 

 in a close room, and perhaps over-heated and afterwards goes out 

 into a cold temperature that catches cold. What sort of a man do 

 you think that would be who could stand with not a moment's 

 notice a translation from Greenland down to the equator? That is 

 practically what you do everytime you go out of a super-heated 

 house in the winter, and what can you expect? A person who lives 

 out doors is the one who never catches cold. 



Now why are these consumptive camps located on a reservation? 

 I know there has been, to a certain extent, opposition to this, and 

 opposition I may say on the part of the highest dignitaries of the 

 State. In the first place, these reservations were purchased with 

 the idea of forest restoration and they belong to the people of this 

 Commonwealth. They were purchased for their interest and paid 

 for with their money, and if there is any good that they can get out 

 of these reservations without interfering with the purpose for which 

 they were purchased, I think they are entitled to it. 



Now 7 there is another reason why these consumptive camps should 

 be located on the reservations. A short time ago I proposed to 

 purchase a piece of ground along the Brandywine for the purpose of 

 opening a consumptive sanitarium, and I was not very long in finding 

 out that the investment on my part would not be regarded with any 

 favor with the neighbors. They didn't want a consumptive sani- 

 tarium there. I don't blame them very much. I would not like to 

 have a contagious disease in the vicinity of my family if I expected 

 to live there. Now the isolation that we have in these forest reser- 

 vations is complete. We are interfering with the rights of nobody. 

 Nobody wants to live there. We stand on an elavation and we look 

 out over miles of forest land. There is not a factory chimney in 

 sight, and every breath that you take in comes to you through miles 



