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same is true of consumption and other lung troubles. 
A great many recover in that invigorating air, and 
the doctors all tell me that a case of consumption 
never originates there, and I am inclined to think 
that is true, or nearly true. Colds and coughs are 
much less frequent there than here in Illinois... I 
think that is because there are fewer sudden changes. 
It isn’t a low degree of temperature that gives peo- 
ple colds, but sudden changes. Yet people do have 
coughs and colds there, and you needn’t take any 
stock in that old story that you never hear anybody 
cough in a church or other assemblage of people. It 
is not true. If you go into a crowd you will very 
likely hear somebody cough, but not so frequently as 
here. Iam nota doctor, but I don’t believe much 
in sending people away from home when they are 
sick, unless they have enough money to afford to 
travel a good deal. Florida will suit one, and Dakota 
another, and they can't tell which will suit them best 
till they try, and people of limited means can’t af- 
ford to go traveling up and down the country to find 
the place they feel the best in. I know some con- 
sumptives in Dakota who would no doubt be dead if 
they had staid in their old homes, or gone to Florida. 
Now they seem entirely well. No doubt there are 
those in Florida who got well there, but would have 
died if they had gone to Dakota. As [ have just 
said, there is no way to know about what climate 
will suit any particular case but to try, and I would 
try Dakota first.” 
