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A unique bit of | Griental people take to the occult as ducks to water. circumstantial evidence certifying to one cure is a It is not surprising to find lower class Chinese and Japanhuge double-pointed carpet-tack, framed, under glass, se resorting to marvel-working centers of one sort and with a record of its having been swallowed bya little The degree of educachild, and, by St. Anne's assistance, voided without doing | another to drive away sickness, tion reached by the individual makes a great difference any harm. there, just as it does here As the whole world knows, If an invalid has money enough, he usually turns to Surgeons and tra ned nurses are second to anese Europe. J. Pierpont Morgan thinks Aix-les-Bains is the in the whole world in their practiced familiarity place of al! others for undoing the effects of strenuous all the best modern methods of work. On the other life on Wall street Queen Victoria used to have a fond a large con lituency of common people cling to ness for the Riviera, and spent months regaining strength ( ous superstitions of their own. In the garden of the and serene poise in a sunny villa on a flowery mountain Shinto Temple of itano Tenjin, at Kyoto, there is a side at Mentone Edward VII. some years age dis certain favorite image of a bronze bull, which many beecvered” the Rhineland resort at Homburg, so far as Eng lieve will cure all sorts of aches and pains if a person lish visitors were concerned. The place had been fairls or strokes the part of its corresponding to the popular before that with the Germans themselves, but one where they are ailing. The treatment has at least after the (then) prince of Wales found its spring water the merit of being simple and cheap, and there are a panacea for liver trouble and indigestion, troops of plenty of old women in Kyoto ready to testify that it is moneyed Britons had indigestion, too, and the place be τ (0) κ; ΣᾺ Ὁ US ( GOVERNMENT SANITARIUM GR OWNOS AT ῴ EO TORR WA, NEW ZILA 14 RID ---- NEof the unsettled questions of this year is whether the most famous health resort in Eu rope will be forcibly closed, as another episode in the lively war between the French govern ment and the church. Such action has been threatened. If the government does forbid or ganized pilgrimages to Lourdes, a little provincial town away up in the southwest corner of the country, at the foot of the Pyrenees mountains, its action will be re esived with a chorus of protest in all sorts of keys. Deyout invalids and their friends will lament in genuine distress. Hotelkeepers and souvenir vendors, who have been making a good living out of the visits of a quarter of a million pilgrims every year, will groan for reasons of their own. And hardly a railway in France, in spite z always made special rates on round-trip tickets to the place of cure, will fail to use its own influence for the continuance of so profitable No wonder! Lourdes in as biggest in n less travel ner, The treatment than through a custom. As many as 40.00 at the pilgrims have gone to st day The crowds are always though, in fact , there is more or the year round Lourdes is more through the spirit to say, prayers—not flesh—that medicine nor surgery—are the is r i dependence, in’s Grotto is thou the water of a spring in the Vir quaffed by invalids and used for bathing suffer bodies And the poor souls who go there are often in wretched condition; many about bby y of them have to be carried or helped relatives or nurses. A good many of the at tendants are well-to-do women, who volunteer for 8 certain number of days or weeks, toiling without any payment Doctors are always on hand, too, but only to examine cases and record results. The treatment is not in their hands. They look with skeptical or puzzled wonder at the immense numbers who go away apparently well, after a few days’ share in the very picturesque devotions of the place. Coraparatively few Americans go to Lourdes, but there is within 24 hours’ journey of New York another miracle working resort, second only to the French shrine in point It is at the little Canadian village of of popularity Beaupre, on the left bank of the St. Lawrenceriver, a few miles below Quebec, or rather it would be more correct to say that the village is at the church of St. Anne de Beaupre, for the shrine is the only reason for the existence of the village, with its half-mile of convents, | inns and shops All the year around people make special journeys there, but the great season for the devotion of the sick is in midsummer. Follow the crowd into the great church, a few rods away, and, no matter what your ownfaith maybe, you cannot help being profoundly moved. came almost as much English as German. Of late years Great Britain's arbiter of ashion has largely transferred his affections to Marienbad, and, naturally enough, that Austrian mountain village is now a sort of Mecca for those who suffer from the same unromantic ill as the British sovereign, namely, overweight. It is now declared by enthusiasts that the fountain of youth, which a six teenth century Spaniard sought in Florida, is really bub efficacious, too The very oldest of the world’s resorts for marvelous cures is in India, at Benares Compared with the prestige of that spot on the left bank of the Ganges, even the most time-honored resort in Europe or America is a mere fad of to-day. The great German scholar Max Muller, who devoted years to the study of oriental thought, once declared: “When Babylon was an upstart, contending with lordly Nineveh, and the early Jewish heroes and kings bling up at Marienbad. Middle-aged persons with unwere welding the Israelitish tribes into a nation, while desirable waist measures are confidently encouraged to Athens was hardly more than 1 name, and Rome not yet believe that the Marienbad regimen, if “follered faithful,” hought of, hither toiled streams of wistful pilgrims.” will restore long-lost slenderness and grace. But it is not And to Benares they are still toiling, even in this year an easy regimen. This miracle must be earned. You rise India is considerably bigger than the at six a. m. or earlier, dress and go out, fasting, to the | of grace, 1908. whole United States, so that the distances to be traversed promenade, where other early risers are flocking to the springs. A king, a grand duke, a Parisian butterfly, a are often hundreds of miles, but at the very time when this article is being written sick folk from every part of Chicago business man, no matter what your worldly the land are making slow, painful journeys on foot to estate may be, you meekly drink a certain prescribed reach that particular place on the Ganges where the quantity of spring water and walk up and down long, | gods have cured so manyailing ones. Swarms of pilgrims tree-shaded promenades to the encouraging accompaniment of a really fine band concert. Sometimes you sip | constantly fill the riverside temples and line the ghats where bathers undress and dress again. Rich and poor your dose as you walk along. Even if it rains, your de | jostle each other on the bank. Clean and filthy stand yotions to the goddess of health must be duly paid, though | side by side waist deep in the ill-smelling water, taking the walking may be done under cover in a long colonnade The prescribed distance accomplished, fast—literally to break your fast, but you go to break (if you take {Πε thing conscientiously) by no means to feast. Diet is supposed to be strictly ordered and limited, but as the flesh is often weak, though the spirit be ever so willing, some pilgrims to Marienbad sell their purpose, as Esau, his birthright, for good things to eat, and go awayas portly 88 ever to complain that, in spite of spring-water drinks and baths, the cure isn’t what it is cracked up to be! The other famous health resorts on the usually more or less like Marienbad, though some are on larger scale Aix, Spa, Wiesbaden, Ka Baden Baden, each has its specially promised, or at Then, when you make ready to go, you notice near least hoped-for, cure to attract the afflicted wir the n entrance two huge stacks of what look at first ter resorts in the Engadine valley, away up on ft broken furniture and torn upholstery You look shoulder of the Alps, just abovethe It er. hold out the hope of a newlease of life for sufferers from lung in Each heap—high enough to reach the ceiling of an ordinary house—is composed of crutches, canes, diseases, and the popularity of St Moritz, Davos and splints, trusses and bandages left behind by those who | other Swiss towns in that vicinity is increasing at a came suffering and went away cured In another part People have a good time there tremendous rate a much it up in their hands, snuffing it up their nostrils, in sublime indifference to the fact that only ten corpse is soaking in the same holy water feet away @ The newest American resort for the healing of mankind’s ills is, as most people have recently heard, a Protestant Episcopal church in Boston, until lately regarded’ as a stronghold of conservatism. The work is intentionally limited to certain lines, especially to functional troubles like nervous prostration and hysteria The treatment is a combination of spiritual inspiration up-to-date with and encouragement twentiethcentury science and therefore differ s fundamentally from Christian Science,” which puts a taboo on the educated jan It is announced that the work begun in Bos s to be taken up and devek ped by certain churches New York, where thestill higher tension at which ᾿ live makes nervous disorders even more prevalent Maybe we have here the establishment of new shrines if healing, even more far-reaching in their influence thar those already famous. Time will tell gE. Β MERRIAM. |