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Show An AtllrsiuUrk lrm, Healthy summer visitors to the Adirondack! Adi-rondack! frequently hear a term uwl by Iho natives in describing tomo of t lit ir city comradM la thoao diligktful And lealthghlug regions that greatly mystifies mys-tifies thsm at first. Tlio people thus referred re-ferred to technically aro called ,tho "lungtrs, who an genertilly found to be irrlty 1-Wntlful. "Lungera," jro-nounced jro-nounced "lung era ' Is a word that has not as yet got into j,ent ral usugo out! lo Urn rnngn of thetfno tror f-dors of tho northernmost part of ow York ttatci but Its meaning and derivation aro sot n Ircelved and rdiiipcl Instant admiration admira-tion for their iltnpliolty and significance. The "lungers" of tho Adirondack regions aro none other than tlw con sumptlvs who resort thither for tho Uneut of their lung troubles, nnd who form n class by thunwles in tho oyes of the nuthes anart from Hkj mum huntsmun and leanuro ewckeri. Tliero is n sort of diuluuloii In Mg a lunger that naught else can give, aitd thoiiKli thowotdthuaevohid by an aJmlrnblo philological fhneae seems to h o a touch of rugged brutality In it at first sight, yet thero U, after all, a kind of xongli vymrstthy lu it that Is rtdoleut of the soil Aa the pulmonary knowledge of tlw Adirondack people increase in minuteness, minute-ness, 04 it doubtless will, one may ex-Ict ex-Ict to hoar the uoro dotal 11 dohJtrua-tions dohJtrua-tions ot'ono lungtrt,H"lialf lungers," Uc, though this, it h belie i ml, has not yttbeenobMned New York Tribuus. |