Forest leaves . tifying a trifling personal curiosty, and as I neither intended to makea record of my visit nor give any public utterance of my research, itsufficed for me to look things over superficially. Not alone at the. Sanitarium did I find this exalted valuation of thehealing energy of atmosphere. It was the dominant note to which all ofSaranac was attuned. If it be right to call it and all the Adirondackregion a sanctuary of Nature, the worship that inspires heart and soulof every exile is the worship of air. The air is life—the air is health—theair is strength, and those who have only
Forest leaves . tifying a trifling personal curiosty, and as I neither intended to makea record of my visit nor give any public utterance of my research, itsufficed for me to look things over superficially. Not alone at the. Sanitarium did I find this exalted valuation of thehealing energy of atmosphere. It was the dominant note to which all ofSaranac was attuned. If it be right to call it and all the Adirondackregion a sanctuary of Nature, the worship that inspires heart and soulof every exile is the worship of air. The air is life—the air is health—theair is strength, and those who have only narrow margin of these physicalgifts wallow in the superabundant air and riot in all the stimulation andnutriment of outdoor life. During these days the mercury dropped to twelve degrees below zeroand a cutting wind, filled with blizzardy snow, crooned from the north-west-. It had no terrors for the exiles. Clad in their coonskin coats, andwith head and feet warmly swathed, they sat by the hour on the shady. - it® 10 FOREST LBAVBS side of their temporary homes, some dozing, others reading, one or twoactually knitting. The show was a surprise, a revelation to me, and I tearoften the interest of it tempted me to transgress the limits of good breed-ing by a too ready yielding to the impulse to stand and observe tooleisurely. My fellow boarders in the hotel were an interesting lot. Therewas a college athlete who had recovered his old strength, if girth and appe-tite and physical endurance were tell-tale evidence. There was a beautifulboy—no matter his home and parents, I knew them all—whose name onthe register revealed his begetting. He had experimented with Coloradoand Found it too lofty. Lungs strengthened at the expense of heart andnerves and he had to drop down to the lower Adirondack level. He was afair and a lovely bov and everybodys favorite. There was two old
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