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and, if one is sensitive, to take 'a California 

 cold,' which is so hard to get rid of. In fact, to 

 a skin-sensitive person a form of sensitive- 

 ness which, I am assured, is more common 

 with invalids whose lungs are sound than 

 with regular ' lungers ' there is no point of 

 comparison betwixt this climate and that of 

 Southern California, so far ahead is ours. 

 Nothing is more astonishing to the delicate 

 person than the cautions whispered into his 

 ears by the Oldest Inhabitant of 'the most 

 favoured State in the Union.' It is not safe 

 1 in this climate ' to do things which are done 

 with impunity every day in New Mexico. 

 One is warned against sitting in the shade in 

 summer (the heat of the sun being never- 

 theless unbearable), against sitting out even 

 in the sun in winter, against wearing light 

 clothing at any season, against a dozen and 

 one performances which are a matter of 

 course elsewhere. 



Life becomes very tiresome by reason of 

 so many precautions, and in spite of a con- 

 scientious observance of them all, the sensi- 

 tive person many delicate individuals are 

 not sensitive, by -the -by takes one deep 



