MODISH PEOPLE WHO VISIT amm from mid january until well into march the new yorker who can do so makes his escape from town to avoid the worst part of the winter plenty ot business men arid women duties hold them rather closely to their desks prefer to take their vacations at aliis season also declaring that new ork is never so unpleasant in the heat of gummer as it is during the first three months ot the year while the winter reports in the south and take most 0 them not a few of these migrating new corkers go to this contingent includes many aemi who require doctoring and iest and who vant to avoid aa far aa tha mild gayet iea of the winter resort and to dress in the simplest style sanitariums in america have changed their character in the last dozen years or so just as alfy have increased in number they are no long hospitals resorted to only in case of necessity and fashionable people whose health has been affected by the social demands on them are the moat numerous patrons and the of sanitariums have sought to maka their as luxurious as possible in order to secure the beat clang of patients one sanitarium has become BO popular among the people who keep late hours and eat big dinners that it is a veritable fashion re serf women make up carlies to go and a few eka there when they aro tired out they take along their maida and boxes 0 clothes for they know they are sure to meet men and women belonging to their own special acet and they not lag behind in the matter ot dreas even though they are compelled to keep early hours and cut their evenings very short after dinner thre is no hotel register in the fashionable sanitarium tor many of the guasta prefer that their presence there should not be generally known this armi secrecy avoids the of explanation and savea troublesome correspondence sympathizing friends in town the inest common complaints are in and stomach troubles caus ed by too much eating and at irregular time and nerva troubled lea 0 slight nature resulting from late hours tor patients with serious afflictions are not encouraged to come to this resort of smart invalidism the would alx lx patient or parties of brianda who may plan a baay there must arrange in advance tor their oc indeed the patronage of unknown ferons pe rons by some one who la already a patron la no sought plans ar made for the visit as though it artt to be pleasure trip thing for the idea is at least a new one the very pretty cowna allowed to moderate invalidism are purchased when the patient is a woman cushions and of becoming patterns are taken along novela and are put in the trunk and anen the nerve ala dan on bays adieu to the fashionable restaurant and the afternoon tea dieling dieting is one of the features of this sanitarium and of late gome remarkable obesity cures have been reported from there As obesity is now an ill from which many new york women suffer the fame of anfe cures has spread and this year more than a dozen remarkably healthy women are among the guests at the retreat six of rigid dieling dieting is said to effect wonderful reductions and as a physician personally superintends super intends eacia case the patient need dread none of the results which sometimes follow dieling dieting overdone or wrongly done as it usually is when attempted without supervision the dieling dieting consists principally of the milk cure which is now prescribed in many different complaints of the stomach the usual foods of the fashionable women are completely cut ot aba bill of fare of a rich nature alcoholic beverages french cooking shellfish and meats of various sorts that are not healthful in certain cases are forbidden early hurs are the lule there is exercise to be had in the sun parlor well ventilated for those who do not wish to face the outside air but tho usual invalid of this kind wishes as far as possible to live outdoors so sleighing in the season ia popular and riding and driving are a part of the days work especially with who are working to get rid of weight there is a gymnasium with swimming pool the servants are nearly all under the supervision of trained nurses and aa tho servant question sends many of the fair invalids to the sanitarium thia source of trouble is guarded against with special care in fact from the time the patient is carefully tucked in rugs in the station wagon life Is made remarkably pleasant and luxurious to a degree in spite of the many usual comforts that are dispensed with the man about town condemned to breakfast on fruit and oatmeal and forbidden to enjoy cocktails steak vegetables wines and cigars finds that he is served on the finest linen fiher and cut glas i although his fare la meagre his bedroom or suite is perfectly cared tor and kept at just the proper degree of temperature his bed is the very perfection of comfort although he i carefully looked after by a doctor the atmosphere of illness Is not allowed to assert the guests gather around a splendid log alre before dinner and the scene at this hour resembles more a private country house than sanitarium evening dress is ane rule and while the women do not as a general thing go in for anything remarkable in the way of dres there are some who astound othera wha the display of jewels and imported frocks the obesity patients are weighed each morning and evening and themselves decreasing in pounds to a person suffering from dread of an increase in size the boy of this experience la something too keen lor words at the end of six or eight weeks the patient Is ready to take up the round of engagements again in fact she has grown tired of the enforced rest and Is anxious to display her improved appearance pe arance to friends in town she appears on the scene at home and tells of visits in the country yachting trips and delightful times in the south everything but the truth for there Is an unwritten law that binds the fellow patients in the smart sanitarium and no one mentions having seen any one else anere this air of mystery has done much to increase the popularity of the place which is said to be favorable to the inception of interesting flirtations as well as to the continuance of even more interesting ones agun in town the fascination of the situation is irresistible to the adlo men and women who have nothing to fill in their hours they div up the luncheons dinners teas and receptions that nake up their days the only way to discover who is there Is to go there as a patient for no inquiries in regail to guests ire answered and few of the cor with tha people they have left behind many of the unexplained absences from socie tys ranks are accounted for in this way they ar people who have acquired the sanitarium habit and who have run away tor a visit when matters got too strenuous at home A few of the patients into their old ways of necessity on getting back to the city they enjoy with renewed zest the things that have ben denied them and will be able to keep up the pace tor another year or six months as the cabi may be bomea who have got rid of twenty or twenty pounds and wart measures have gone down three or four inched are apt to be more careful and will stick to the toast which they hv learned to substitute for bicad and will continue to abjure desserts T