Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-02-22


idea of enjoying such drink would NOT
be entertained for 4 moment ordinarily,
but these Hot Springs water csntain q
large amount Of cSrbOnic acid and is really
& pleasant drink-prOduees about the
same stimulating effect that the same qnan-
tity of tea or coffee Of ordinary strength
would. 1t has a tendency TO increase the
apPstite, as after drinking the water before
breakfast. You will be prepared to do
full justics to what is set before you, mani
Testing greater regard for quantity than
quality asking no questions for eOnseisnes
sake, and feeling thankful to Providenes
for suficieney. After doing ample JUS
tice to a good breakfast, you repair to the
Office of the hotel where you enjoy a few
moments chat while awaiting the coming
Of the mail-upon the announcsmentof
its arrival, all look eagerly for message
from home-eithsr in form of letter or pa
pers. Both, or either are very acceptable /
assure you. Those who are fortunate
enough to get them, deyour them with as
much apparent relish as they previously
had their breakfast, while the poor unfor-
tunates who have not been favored by hear
ing their name called spend few moments
in evident regret that noone cared enough
for them to send them token of remsm-
brance. Then toour rooms to write let
tsrs. At = past 10 preparations are made
for bathing, by laying aside all superfuous
clothing and erowding the stove full of
wood, we wsnd our way to the bath house,
and take, first, what is called the plunge
bath at from 9s to 100 degrees, remaining
in the water from to 10 minutes. AT the sx-
Piration Of this time we go on to the vspor
bath room which adjoins the plunge bath.
The floor of this room is lattice work per-
mitting the steam from the springs in its
normal state to rise filling the little room
full of so dense vapor as to be almost
binding. Here you remain from 8 to
minutes at the expiration Of which time
they will put you in pack for 10 minutes.
This latter process consists of wrapping
you closely in blankets and lying down in
tub from which boiling water has been
let of leaving the heat and vapor. This
is vapor bath which cannot te equallsd
by any known artificial means resorted to.
The effects produced by the use Of this
bath are somewhat similar to those OF the
Turkish bath. Upon leaving this bath
you are taken in charge by a rubber"
who, with coarse towel rubs you as ener-
geticaIly as faithful groom would the
noble trotting horse after hot contest for
a heat in close race. This process con
.cIuded you wrap up carefully and warmly
and proceed Immediately to warm room
where you lie down or seat yourself com
fortably. At intervals during the entire
process of bathing from the plunge to the
siesta, you are engaged in tippling hot wa
ter and while resting you sip still more
from time to time, until time to dress for
dinner, when you leave the bath house for
your room.
There are many who cannot take full
vapor bath on account of inhaling the
steam, and for these box is arranged in
which the bather is placed and closes tight
around the neck, leaving the vapor TO en-
velope the surface of the body. This bath
is used for persons lEboring under bron-
chial difficulties. Dinner being announced
you find yourself ready for it and little dis
posed to be fastidieus. Substantials are
mostly in demand but we are not so par
licular but that we are inclined to take
anything almost that is set before us.
After dinner little time is spent in
ounging, then if pleasant we start out for
/ walk, ora climb up the mountain side.
AllabOut US are places of interest to visit
70 that for a long time one may walk with
'ut a sense Of fatigue. As we walk with |
,srtain objects in view and not merely as
onstitutional-one forgSts that he is an in
aid walking for health, the mind being
coupled by varied scenes, is diverted from
weling upon the diseased condition of the
'ody. Thus days and weeks pass pleasantly
way. After returning from our walk and
esting little we again visit the dining
oom, and wonder what induced US to
ONE here as we neither act, eat or feel
Ike invalids. The interval between sup
er and bedtime is passed as pleasantly
S possible in conversation, cards and such
ther amussments as may be agreeable to
S. All days are about alike. The mind is
rss from the distracting cares of hfe,-the
erplexitiss Of business as nearly as may
e, which is Of course the most favorable
0ndition possible for health to assert her
lpremaey over disease. Worn out and
asted energies are more rapidly recruited
ere than at any other place ever visited,
Mess disorganization has gone en- to such
4 extent as to render restoration physi-
Il impossibility. The greatest benefit
ems to be derived in those cases (which
e to be numbered by thousands) in which
IN be found in the tissues and circulating
the blood something foreign to them
I'd of a poisonous character and which
.turs unaided seems to be unable to
inmate. 1t does not require q medical
ucation for the mind to understand that
the two great and important sxcretories
the system the skin and the Kidneys are ]
pit constantly in active condition and
e blood vessels kept distended all poi
nous agents in the body capable of
ing in solution must eventually be
shed away. This is what happens by
. Of these waters, and the only question
how much danger is there in the process.
hould say very much indeed without =
, exercise Of great caution. Very few
rsons visit these springs who are compe-
1T to use the waters according to their
n judgment. The great majority ,
0uld use the baths only under the diree- 3
n OF competent physician. The wa
is extremely clear, pure and limpid, 5
'ssly resembling distilled water, hence
'sing with great readiness and extreme
'idity by sndosmosis into the blood
h through and from the stomach-the
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