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Joyce, Richards, and Hayward, who had undertaken the relief journey, were all showing symptoms of scurvy, though in varying degrees. Their legs were weak, their gums swollen. The decision that the invalids, with Wild, should stay in camp from February 24, while Joyce's party pushed forward to Bluff depot, was justified fully by the circumstances.
Though some of his portraits are wretched failures, there are others of his pictures that might grace any gallery in Europe. Mountain air is better than sea air, both for those who are well and strong, and generally speaking for invalids; but people go to the sea because they like it, for love of the dark blue ocean. Few things are more monotonous than sailing in a yacht.
The lounging Negro, who had let him in before, stared at the grey mehari with the red-curtained bassour, whose imposing height dwarfed the Roumi's horse. No doubt the man wondered why it was there, since only women or invalids travelled in a bassour; and his eyes dwelt with interest on the two Arabs from the town of Oued Tolga.
The "moralists" who preach abstinence, self-denial, and suppression are relegated by these findings of impartial and disinterested science to the class of those educators of the past who taught that it was improper for young ladies to indulge in sports and athletics and who produced generations of feeble, undeveloped invalids, bound up by stays and addicted to swooning and hysterics.
Invalids love and hate without reason, which is contrary, he said, as he stood in the presence of the court, contrary to what is done among persons in sound health. Under the shelter of her uncle's roof he had lain for weeks, sick of a fever. He was saved alive, but so as by fire. This girl waited on him through that time as a servant.
Cold, dry, and still air, appears a more rational indication, especially for invalids born in temperate regions. It will be seen that our author differs occasionally from both his great predecessors, Sir James Clark and M. Carrière; but even in so doing, he has at least the merit of fairly opening out a most important subject.
To her amazement, only an hour had elapsed since Grandma left her, and for the first time the little girl realized what it meant to be deprived of the free use of her limbs. "Only ten o'clock," she thought to herself; "and dinner isn't until one!" Not that Marjorie was hungry, but like all the invalids she looked forward to meal-times as a pleasant diversion.
"Now I know why we have asparagus every day for dinner! Apropos of dinner, who do you think is coming to feed with us this evening, Kavanagh?" "Invalids are excused guessing," said Kavanagh. "Your old militia captain, Royce. He has got his majority now, by-the- by, and he is set upon having you back into the regiment." Royce was punctual; and I propose to you a novelty in story endings.
Among travelers it is the concensus of opinion that climatic conditions in the Dominican Republic are as favorable as in any other tropical country. Far from presenting dangers to health there are few districts in the Republic which with proper hotel accommodations would not offer delightful refuge to invalids seeking to escape the rigors of the northern winter.
They think it derogatory to the due dignity of Mont Blanc that he should be used as a greased pole, and assure us that the true pleasures of the Alps are those which are within reach of the old and the invalids, who can only creep about villages and along high-roads. I cannot well argue with such detractors from what I consider a noble sport.
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