CLIMATE, EVIL BEASTS, SCENERY in 



living in this particular is constructive suicide, 

 if not constructive murder.' 



' I have never suffered so much from cold 

 in my life as I have since coming to Southern 

 California !' is quite a common remark made 

 by those hailing from New York, New 

 England, and even Manitoba. 



In Southern New Mexico we make no 

 pretences. We light good fires, and keep 

 ourselves warm nights and mornings, or, in 

 fact, whenever we are likely to feel cold. 

 The people of Southern California sit around 

 shivering in nreless houses, bundled up in 

 shawls, waiting for their sun which, unlike 

 ours, rarely rises in an absolutely cloudless sky 

 to warm them. Yet competent physicians 

 declare that in no climate are fires needed 

 more than in that of the Land of Flowers, 

 on account of the lurking damp in the air 

 and the apparently trifling, yet in reality 

 serious, variations of the temperature from 

 day to day. Overheated by necessary 

 clothing and the warmth of the sun, one 

 enters a house as cold as a vault ; the con- 

 sequences need not be described. The 

 absence of an honest, stimulating cold affects 



