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nish, upon the state of mind is important from the standpoint 

 of health. As a rule those persons who worry least live the 

 longest and the amount of worry often depends on the sur- 

 roundings as much as on the disposition of people. Those who 

 work in offices, in stores, in studies, in factories, or in any place 

 where they are thrown constantly into social, business, or pro- 

 fessional relations with men, are more apt to have their peace 

 of mind disturbed than those whose associations are with the 

 more unoffending and less imperfect forms of life to be found 

 in the open fields and forests. 



Some of the states which have extensive forest reservations 

 are finding them most valuable places for the location of sani- 

 tariums. In Pennsylvania a large area within the state forest 

 reserve has been set aside for the use of the Department of 

 Health. A report from "Camp Sanitorium" in this forest, 

 states that about 75 per cent of the tubercular patients who 

 have come in the past five years to the camp for treatment were 

 discharged as cured or the disease arrested. The Legislature 

 of that state has recently made large appropriations to aid in 

 carrying on and extending this important work for the con- 

 servation of human life. 



It is reasonable to suppose that sufferers from diseases of 

 the throat and lungs who make long and fatiguing journeys 

 from West Virginia to the mountains of the west and south 

 could find as great relief, with less inconvenience, in our own 

 mountain highlands if suitable accommodations could be pro- 

 vided. 



Recreation. 



Forests furnish the most popular and the most satisfactory 

 places for recreation : and, during the warmer months, are vis- 

 ited by thousands of campers, sight-seers, hunters, fishermen 

 and collectors. The national forests are fast becoming "play- 

 grounds" for the people. During the last year half a million 

 people sought recreation in these forests of the west and north ; 

 and a recent publication of the Forest Ser^dce states that the 

 time seems not far distant when a million people will annually 

 visit them for this purpose. People find well-kept forests more 

 desirable places for recreation than those which are not. 



