| Show TUB millionaires HUNT FOR the european watering place union for the extraction of coin from american plutocrats the passion for worx and the tre struggle for wealth to produce mysterious unclassified diseases in the american millionaire hie knowing that the elret remedy Is to check the business fever in the mans blood gite some perfunctory prescription and says you might go abroad why not try one of the cures which one queries the parent and what and where are they the physician recites the list alx les baans Itom burg wiesbaden Wies baden ba rien baden Marien bad st moritz and a more or lesa known places A combination of symptoms and inclination settles the choice and the patient goes aboard an ocean liner pursued to the gangplank by his business the treatment at these resorts Is simple and Is practically the same at all you get up early in the morning between 6 and 7 you walk io a spring and sip glasses of more or less die tasteful water as you slowly march up and down the promenade while a band plays to awaken your drowsy spirits after two or three glasses you walk back to the hotel with an appetite for breakfast that is curbed by diet restrictions to certain queer kinds of bicad boiled eggs cold ham and cottee two hour after breakfast the boete calle the patient I 1 solemnly old words of many that he ie with unpronounceable a cuse that will require treating after the particular spring for drink lug water is elected the visitor and the doctor go to the bath houe building le invariably the most inigo log in town with stately facade and inviting entrance inside are long corri dora ladled to the right and gentle brot to the left lined with docene of attle acm uke each a bathtub bath tub a couch and a thermometer at the door la a strong armed masseur the bathing waters give a variety ol 01 sensation some bubble like chaab gome soothe some tickle some electrify some enervate bome are insipidly tepid but the climax le per haps reached in the hot mud bathe after the patient gets into hia tub the doctor waits outside the door watch la hand timing the immersion then the masseur gets to work with rubbing still timed by the doctor fin ally the patient appears dressed ani refreshed the doctor talks diplomatically on favorite symptoms a little flattered flat tere a little more and with a sweeping bow hands his victia 1110 a carriage for six weeks this routine is supposed to be repeated dally with ing variation 0 temperatures sage and diet and this what afi known in every resort regardless of country or language as the cure each place has its specialty alx or rheumatism homburg for gout wiesbaden Wies baden and baden baden tor stomach troubles carlsbad for bad 11 TS Marlen bad for tat and st tor the convalescent after cure the alliances of european health re port physicians and of hotel keepers ar perfect unions the american visitor with money is passed on from one to another so smoothly that he does not realize how easily he is being handled his likes dislikes and means are well known in advance and he sometimes innocently marvels at the supposed cleverness in filling his wants before the asking but rest assured it will all b charged in tho bill |
