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Show Winter Resorts. It is poBsible in our big country to go from midwinter to midautnmor in two days' time, from almost any quarter of tbe Union. Winter resorts are becoming becom-ing as popular as summer onos, and as crowded. There are all tbe year round hotels, indeed, at the seashore and else where, whose winter prices are double those of the summer. Those whose lungs are weak, and who wish to avoid a northern winter, find great relief in tbe pine regions of tho Carolinas, notably in the neighborhood of Asheville, K. C. Florida, land of alligator alli-gator and orange grove, is perennially lovely. Little wonder that the old Spaniard thought the fountain of youth was there. Old Point Comfort, too, is a most charming winter resort. One of tbe most glorious and most life giving regions in winter is the coast of southern California. Beautiful resorts are dotted along the Pacific, where the person with a cough may linger a few weeks or months, and under the influence influ-ence of tbe soft airs from tho sea and the rich and nourishing fruits his checks will grow round and full, his nights restful rest-ful and dreamless. The cough will leave him and now life will come to hiiu. Such spots are San Diego and Santa Cruz. Living in these places is cheap. California Califor-nia has, too, the hot springs of San Luis Obispo, claimed to be equal in medicinal qualities to tho hot springs of Arkansas. San Luis Obispo is in a mountain region of unparalleled beauty in the heart of the California orange groves. If pcoplo along tho Atlantic coast want to get away from fogs and snows thoy flit away to Bermuda, a sixty hours' ride by sea from New York. Here, it is aid, fevers are almost unknown, because the inhabitants live on fruits and vegetables. Among tho vegetables vegeta-bles is tho gigantic Bermuda onion, as mild flavored as It is big. It is claimed that those who cat plenty of Bermuda onions will not havo fevers or any other ailment to speak of. At Bermuda the sea water is warm enough to batho in tbe surf the year around. Nassau, iu the Bahamas, is another delightful spot, something similar to Bermuda. The temperature langes between be-tween 60 and 85 degs. The sea about Nassau is indescribably beautiful. It is so transparent that sea weed is visible growing thirty to fifty feet below the surface. |