held January 23, 1902, and within eighteen months funds were raised for the construction of the central building and one of the dormitories, the corner stone of which was laid on September 11, 1902; the sanatorium was formally opened on August 15, 1903. The central building contains an assembly hall, with stage large enough to be used for entertainments, the dining room, and the various executive offices, besides several bath rooms, bed rooms and apartments for the house staff. The dormitories contain, beside bed rooms and lavatories, the apartments of the nurses, a large sun parlor and two diet kitchens. The furnishings of these rooms have been given by friends of the cause who stipulated only that the furniture should be attractive and substantial. One of the most interesting features of our work is the childrens' department, composed of boys and girls from six to twelve years of age. These seventeen little people, now under our care, are very proud of the fact that they have a special nurse who looks after their health and their pleasure as well. A school is provided for them a few hours each day. In winter the sessions are held in the sun parlor with its cheery open fire, which they greatly enjoy; in the summer with the teacher they roam about, gathering the wild flowers, and studying their bird neighbors so numerous in these woods; or, they sit under the fragrant balsam, cutting its branches for pillows, weaving baskets and making articles of birch bark, all of which are so dearly cherished by their friends at home. The institution is non-sectarian and is supported entirely by private subscriptions. Since its opening it has cared for over two hundred patients, as many as eighty-four being treated at one time. Our road would have been much more difficult and our mistakes more frequent had it not been for the ever-ready counsel and aid of our friend and co-worker, Dr. Trudeau, whose many years of self-sacrifice and experience have enabled him to guide us successfully over the rough places. Things Worth Saying. These men who stop work on the strike of the hour are machines all their days.- The Schoolmaster. There are not so many old maids who want to be wives, as there are wives who want to be old maids.- Wine Review. Get in the sunshine as often as you can. Sleep in clean, well-aired room with windows open, and go to bed early. Avoid crowded rooms where the air is close and where there is much smoking. Eat plain, simple food (eggs, meat, bread, oatmeal, maccaroni, rice, vegetables, milk cream and butter). If possible, have some hot liquid food before you get up in the morning and at bedtime. Spend your money for good food rather than for medicines. Do not drink whiskey, rum, gin, brandy or beer. Keep clean. Take a sponge bath each morning. Rub the skin well with a coarse towel. Do not swallow what you cough up. Protect your friends and neighbors from taking this disease from you by burning what you cough up or by throwing it in the sewer. What you cough up contains the germs of the disease, and, if it dries, it soon becomes dust and flies about in the air, and your friends, breathing this dust, are liable to catch your disease. Never spit upon the floor or in the street. Do not spit in your handkerchief, but use a spit cup or have small pieces of cloth or soft paper to spit into. Do not put them into your pocket, but collect them into a paper bag, and burn bag and all when you get a chance. Try not to cough. When you must cough, hold a piece of cloth in front of your mouth so that particles shall not fly out into the room. Do not sleep with another person. Have your knives, forks and spoons washed with boiling water. Handkerchiefs should be boiled for half an hour before washing. For those who expect to remain outdoors most of the time during the winter "taking the cure" for pulmonary tuberculosis, the weather probabilities should prove of deep interest. The Journal of The Outdoor Life herewith presents short accounts of the kind of winter weather that may be expected in a number of the leading resorts in this country for pulmonary patients. Colorado Springs, Colorado. By Charles Fox Gardiner, M. D. Our winter weather is the result of several factors due to the rather unique position of our city. We are situated at an altitude of about one mile above the sea level, and hundreds of miles from any large body of water, on the sand and gravel of the great plains, which extend without trees or cultivated land far into the north, south and east, dry and without water, a grass-grown desert. Five miles to our west the Rocky Mountains form a wind barrier, 12,000 to 14,000 feet high, curved to protect us, while the level prairie rolling away like the sea to the east allows the early rays of the sun to warm and cheer us from dawn, unobstructed by fog or clouds, so that to have the sunshine in our windows while dressing and at breakfast is a fairly constant luxury seldom denied us. The snow that falls in the winter months is dry and mealy, as a rule only in flurries of a few hours rarely lying on the ground soon eaten up by the sun and wind, sinking into the porous soil without slush or snow water forming. An average winter allows of possibly four or five days of a very poor kind of sleighing. Damp snow storis occur in the spring only. Rainy weather is practically unknown, and overshoes and umbrellas are hardly used at all. The cold is only cold in a different sense from the thermometer standards, the dryness of the air making an enormous difference in any comparisons. As an illustration of this difference suppose one had to stand out doors in a temperature of forty degrees F. clothed only in a sheet. Surely under such conditions one would be more comfortable in a dry sheet than in a damp or wet one. In our winter weather the air in contact with our bodies is dry, and although the temperature may be as low as elsewhere in the country, we are like the person in the dry sheet, not chilled by damp air. So dry is the soil and air that I have seen a house moved away from the ground upon which it had stood for twenty years and shavings left by the builder burned with a clear, smokeless flame, so little had dampness been present. Our winds are less in volume by 2,000 miles per month than in New York city, but even so, they are the worst feature of our winter climate. We will have them blow for two or three days, shaking the house and sending ciouds of dust in eyes and nose. More apt to occur in March, they may occur at any time, and are most disagreeable. If, however, one expects our weather in winter to be soft and mild he will be disappointed. We have regular winter weather, so that fires are necessary for at least six months, and warm clothes are worn. We are not, however, housed. We have weather on the average like the late Indian summer of Eastern States, crisp, cold, but bracing and stimulating, a hot sun and a cold shade. We have hundreds of invalids sleeping out doors all winter. Golf, horseback and wheeling are enjoyed practically every day, and the weather is ideal for rest cure or exercise and above all, induces cheerfulness. Gravenhurst, Ont., Canada. By J. H. Elliott, M. D. To one who knows the Adirondacks, the weather conditions at Gravenhurst, Ont., and vicinity, in fact, of the whole district of Muskoka, may best be summed up in saying that there is very little difference in the two places. Though Gravenhurst has an altitude of barely 800 feet, about 1,000 feet less than the average for the Adirondacks, nearly the same temperature is found, owing to its difference of one degree of latitude, the 45th parallel passing through it. The winter is cold, but is steady. Last winter there were but three days with rain from early December until the snow was leaving in the spring. The mean daily range of temperature is very little, 14.5 degrees from November to March. Snow appears in flurries during November, and about December 1 the ground is covered, remaining so until March. Winter thaws are unusual; once the snow comes it remains, and sleighing once established remains good until spring. Rarely is there the succession of snow and rain so frequent in the region of the Great Lakes. The Muskoka lakes freeze over early in December, and do not open up again till April. The thickness of ice will vary from sixteen to twenty-four or even thirty inches. Though the air in winter is cold, it is comparatively dry and not penetrating, and sitting out-of-doors or driving is made very comfortable by means of furs and rugs. Humidity. The mean temperature for the four winter months, December to March, is 19.1 degrees, and the mean relative humidity is 81. This relative humidity, with the low mean temperature, makes a very low actual humidity, the air holding about 0.9 grain of moisture per cubic foot, or only one-third the actual humidity of air at 60 degrees, which has a relative humidity of only 50. Temperature. The mean daily maximum temperature for the four months is 26 degrees and mean daily minimum 9.5 degrees. The mean daily temperature is as stated above 19.1 degrees. The mean of monthly minimum temperature is 20.3 degrees. There are a few nights each winter when the temperature reaches 20 to 30 degrees below zero, very rarely 35 below. As a rule the wind drops when the mercury reaches zero or a few points below, and with a temperature of 10 or 20 degrees below the atmosphere is still and clear. Some of the most perfect days are when the temperature is below this; not a cloud in the sky, the snow crisp and sparkling in the sunlight, and the smoke from fires rising straight up into |