locality within the temperate zone of the
United States, as will be seen by the following table." The table
referred to shows that, "during the summer months, the temperature of
Buffalo is from 10 deg. to 20 deg. cooler than that of any other point east,
south, or west of the ports on Lake Erie; while the refreshing and
invigorating lake breeze is felt night and day." The author further adds
that "during the winter months the thermometer rarely indicates zero,
and the mean temperature for January, 1858, was 20 deg. above."

A careful investigation into the comparative climatology of the several
great social and commercial centers, proved _Buffalo to be superior to
all others in the climatic requirements for the invalid_. Besides, it
has the important advantage of being a central point of traffic and
travel between the West and the East.

ADVANTAGES OF LOCATION.

The second important consideration in projecting this home for invalids
was _location_. It has generally been customary to locate institutions
of this character in rural districts, removed from the advantages of
city life, on the plea of escaping the confusion and excitement so
detrimental to recovery. The result is well known. Invalids have
regarded them more as pleasure resorts than health resorts, spending the
summer months there, but fleeing to their homes at the fall of the first
snow-flake. The good that was done in the summer is undone by
carelessness and exposure in the winter. A location that would combine
both city advantages and rural pleasures, seemed to us, upon reflection,
to be the desirable one. Fortunately, Buffalo afforded the happy mean.
Our extensive parks, our unsurpassed facilities for yachting, fishing,
and all aquatic sports, our many sylvan lake and river retreats, our
world-famed Niagara,--certainly a more desirable selection of rural
scenes and pleasures cannot be found in another locality in America.

A GENUINE HOME.

In erecting the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, our paramount
design was to make it a genuine home--_not a hospital_--a home where the
child of fortune would miss none of the comforts of her palatial home,
while the poor man would find not only health but his pleasures
multiplied a thousand fold.

OUR TERMS MODERATE.

The wholesale merchant's prices are far less than those of the retail
dealer. He can afford it, his sales are so much larger. It is on
precisely the same principle that we are ab