| Show TAKE LUME dt T AT harme americans need not go abroad for health new yorker tells hit his experience relates how he rested up from heat and overwork by hot and cold water treatments treatment new york in the blistering summer cummer weather when tens of thousands ot of overworked and nerve wrecked americans are s warm warming I 1 ng to the watering places and cure houses ot of europe it Is worth while to consider the results which one can get by common sense methods method sat at home james creelman crealman writes hydrotherapy to the average man or woman it Is a hard big word big with mystery yet in a general way it means nothing more than the scientific and systematic use of hot and cold water to tone up and restore the nervous system right right in your own bathroom you may do for yourself nearly anything that can be done for you in the greatest lo establishments of germany or france fiance A little more than a r ago I 1 was an almost complete nervous wreck overwork had reduced me to I a condition of exhaustion and I 1 tumbled b I 1 ed to the floor beside my desk to la the municipal civil service commission and it had been ascertained by my doctor that my heart was waa sound a condition necessary to the treatment I 1 was put into a bathtub of very hot water this steaming process was principally to prepare me for the ultimately ina tely agreeable shook shock that was waa to follow after I 1 had perspired in tho the hot wa ter until my whole budy body was red I 1 was allowed to sit bit up la in the tub and ice water was steadily poured over me ma for a long time and my spins spine was rubbed with ice then I 1 learned what I 1 had bad not understood der stood before that with the body perfectly prepared by heat beat lea ice does for the nerves what dumbbells do tor for the muscles it la Is impossible to put into words the sense cense of returning strength calmness and courage that came with the icy ef fusions that drenched my tired and tortured frame hope succeeded despair vigor took the place of helplessness I 1 was filled with the sense cense of physical ex exhilaration hil which one sometimes feels after a good swim in the sea day after day week after week I 1 was subjected alternately to hot water and ice fee water my strength returned I 1 slept soundly my appetite grew keen A singular tranquillity took possession of my irritated nerves I 1 felt younger and worked with an ease and enthusiasm enthus laam I 1 had not known tor for a long ume time we go to the expense of trouble of a voyage to germany in search ot of health when we cen achieve the same results by observing the same diet and taking tho same exercise at our own homes we waste time and money in going to alx aix les babris when we have precisely the same means meana of restoring our nervous systems in our own bath tubs tube |
