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Show CALIFORNIA FOR HEALTH. H Mild Climate, Rare Medicinal Springs and Charming Charm-ing Scenery. There are many conditions of the body in which a change of environment is far more valuable val-uable as a remedial agent than all the medicine that can be prescribed. California is peculiarly fitted to give all that nature can give In this direction. To the newcomer new-comer the environment is so strange and so striking that it claims the undivided attention. Everywhere and all the time there is something strange or interesting to see. Of climatic conditions the invalid has a 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 breezes of the coast to the dry, invigorating invigor-ating air of the inland mountain ranges; in temperature, tem-perature, from the almost perpetual summer of the southern part of the State to the more severe, though not unpleasant, climate of the upper Sierras. Sier-ras. In addition to all this, there are numerous mineral springs, many of them having marked medicinal qualities, which have already won for them a wide reputation. At some of these sanitariums sani-tariums have been erected, and all the conveniences conveni-ences of modern civilization are at hand. rrr mi i inn i n |
