Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-11-06
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From the Cleveland Herald.
A LOVE CURE--Well may the reader ask,
What sort of an institution" is a Love Cure
We might give an answer, but the employment
Of broad Saxon would horrify ''ears polite, and
we shall be content to depict its exterior, leaV-
ing the imagination to picture its interior For
some time past the decent citizens of Berlin, IN
Frie comfy. and the neighbOrhOods adjacent
have been shocked by the settlement OF ':berhn
Heights of community of Free Lovers, ana
many meetings have been held, at which resolu-
tionS expressive of the sense of the respectable
norton of community have been passed
but II seems these peaceful efforts Ofno avail,
for VIC see in the Milan Free Press the following,
to wit:
/" As nearly as we can ascertain the Free Low
ers Of Berlin number about eighty, some thirty
of whom are females They have purchased the
Darts House and two or three dwellings, ana
about two hundred acres of land. On the pro-
perty purchased by them they have made but
small payments, and itisquite generally thought
that most, if not the whole of 1t, viii 60 back
to the original owners. Time will tell The
Dtsis House is being converted into Water
Cure, or, rather, as they style 1t Love Cure, Z
establishment"
This 'promiscuousn community has news
paper devoted TO their cause, called the Rerotu-
Zionist, ard in that vile print, this Love Cure.
Is advertised. The ''pimp"-for we must call
things by their right names-of this Cure Is
]. ii. Cook, and to show the people of the Re-
serve what pollution is in our midst, we make
am extract from this Cooks advertisement, as
follows:
has been said and proved in favor of the Water
Cure and other modern cures for poor diseased
unhappy rnortals; but the potency of the Love
Cure has scarcely began to be known or appTe-
ciated. Some of our most popular Water Cures
/ publish. from time to time lists of those who
/ have been cured or greatly benefited by them;
/ | would not disparage the virtues oil water Tor
( know by experience what they are. II mas Deeh
/ said by some Undergraduates that water, when
! pronerIy apvlied, will cure any disease that IS
durable. But believe there are many men and
women whom nothing but love, free, spontane-
Gus and unrestricted, can cure. Some OF these
men and women have been, and are now, az
water cures. In spite of all the faithful aPph-
auces of water and its usual cOncomitants, they
are still pale, bloodleSS, lfeless, sleePlejs, rest
less, and strengthless, because, IN many cases,
they are loyeless or lOverleSs.
81 know love would not cure all these cases;
| but it would many of them, and make lie iaF
more endurable to most OF them. Love can
bring out the spirit from its inmost recess :,
where disease may have driyeniit and set IN
circulation the dormant blood, i3fus:Bg motion,
life, heat, and vigor throughCdt the human
system.
| ~ knew woman who had hardly been out
/ of doors for a year, who went three miles on
foot to meet former lover, whom she had sup
posed had forsaken her. but who she heard, was
again coming to see her. Much of the efficacy
! of water at water cures is owing to love and
water TOGETHER; although love gets none OF the
credit.
The advertisement contains more of this sort
of stuff, and contains much that is too indecent
! to be copied into the columns Of respectable
newspaper. How the good citizens of Berlin
expect to rid their township Of this curse, we
do not know. Sure it is, that unless the NUS
ance is abated its pestiferous influence will blast
the prosperity of the township. We had no
| idea practical Free Love had made such a stand,
and measures should be instantly commenced
against the Davis House such as are prescribed
by statute against other houses of ill fame"