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Show CALIFORNIA FOR HEALTH. Mild Climate, Rare Medicinal Springs and Charming Scenery. There are many conditions of the body in which a change of environment is far more valuable as a remedial agent than all the medicine that can be prescribed. pre-scribed. California Is peculiarly fitted to give all that nature can give in this direction. direc-tion. To the newcomer the environment environ-ment Is so strange and so striking that lit claims the undivided attention. (Everywhere and all the time there is something strange or interesting to see. Of climatic conditions the invalid has fa wide range from which to choose: In .elevation, from about three hundred feet below sea level to six or seven (thousand above; in humidity, from the moist sea breeses of the coast to the dry, Invigorating air of the inland mountain ranges; in temperature, from the almost perpetual summer of the southern part of the State to the more severe, though not unpleasant, climate of the upper Sierras. In addition to all thljj, there are numerous nu-merous mineral springs, many of them having marked medicinal qualities, which have already won for them a wide reputation. At some of these sanitariums san-itariums have been erected, and all the conveniences of modern civilization are at hand. There, too. one can enjoy a more . healthful and varied diet than is accessible ac-cessible in any other locality. Fresh fruits and vegetables the year round: an abundance of wild game, and meats that are nutritious and highly flavored. A climate where even a delicate person an with no fear of tnkfn- tniA ten of the twelve months In the open air needs few accessories In the work of restoring: Impaired health of vitality. Great numbers of seml-invallds already ; go to California to escape the cold of the Eastern winters, and find to their constant surprise that a great part of a California winter is almost an exact counterpart of the balmiest days of an Eastern spring. A variety of California literature, attractively at-tractively illustrated, describing its resources, re-sources, famous resorts and numerous wonders, also maps and folders showing show-ing routes, through trains and other valuable information, may be obtained by addressing D. R. Gray, General Agent Southern Pacific Co., 201 Main street. Salt Lake City. |