VII. 



THREE MONTHS IN FLORIDA FOR A HUN 

 DRED DOLLARS. 



IT is a pity that people other than rich, should be 

 afflicted with sickness or devices that spring from a 

 craving for a change of climate. So wide a difference 

 exists between the climatic conditions of the Northern 

 States and those of the southernmost, that it is quite prac 

 ticable for one possessed of means to remedy any defect 

 in his constitution, pulmonarily, if this expression be 

 allowable, merely by a change of residence. It is so well 

 known that it needs no further showing, that consump 

 tion, that scourge of the North, can be cured (if not 

 radically, at least its fatal consequences postponed), if 

 the patient is taken in hand in the early stages of 

 the disease, and treated to a dose of the bland and 

 health-renewing climate of Florida. It is so well known 

 that thousands seek, and gain, relief by a temporary 

 residence in that land of the &quot;Fountain of Youth.&quot; 



Perhaps that term, &quot; the Land of the Fountain of 

 Youth &quot; has not already been used several thousand 

 times ; but no matter, it is very telling, when one would 

 attract the attention by the use of sonorous phrases. 

 But Florida deserves all such flattering titles as the above, 

 and that of the &quot; Land of Flowers,&quot; no matter how much 

 her defamers may say to the contrary. There are thou- 



