Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-08-30
AT A FRENCH RESORT.
WHiT HRIDEs LES RdJNs gsL LIkE
am nov TO TRaygL rHtRE.
A Dro,l Little Place In u Hollow Of tho
Mountains -- The People Que FINDS
Th'rs-A Congress Of Ia, Folks The
Custom ut Incpssant D,inkInp

Custom ut 1ncpssant Diinkinp.
Correspondence to the ct ng Rrrunttr
BRIDES LES bA1Ns, Aug. l.-"Anywbcre,
anywhere out of the world" So mi hi the
pilgrim sing who sets forth on his way To
Brides los BainS At all events, one finds
out what it is to travel by diligence in
Savoie. The traditional "slow coach" is
nothing to IL, for the slow coach was SUP.
posed to keep moving. From AK les Bains
you go by train to Albcrtville. and there
you will find the diligence with its five
strong borscs and It's blue bloused driver.
The sun il bright, the air Is clear, and the
mountains arc jov forever. And on you
go, or rather you don't go. Presently the
diligence stops The driver gets down and
leaves his five horses to their own sweet
viii. You wait and wait, until finally you
get tired of waiting.
why don't we go ons" you ask
Pardon, madame, the driver ho drinks"
answers your French neighbor
''But he can't drink foreveri'
You are answered by shrng of the
shoulders, which intimates that even that
would lie very possible. However he comes
back at last, and the diligence joys on bit
farther and then comes another stop.
What is it this timei Oh, this is post sta
ton. The driver leaves one mail bag here
and picks up another. He might be writ
ing the letters By the tim, it takes him.
Then you go on for another space. Then
he drinks again. Then another postofce
Then change of horses. During the three
hours it takes to go from Alb,rtville to
Moutiers you are TRANQUILITY waiting the
drivers pleasure for at least one hour. At
Moutiers you part company with the dill
gence, and you wait another hour for the
omnibus which is to take you on to Brides
les Bains. You get into it at last, and on
you drive through scenery SO lovely that
you hardly dare mock it with an attempt at
description
You reach Brides les Bains at last--iroll
little place in the hollow of the mountains,
with its half-dozen houses and an almost
equal number OF hotels the porters of which
rush out and surround you as flies do pot
of honey, and deafcn You with invitations
to their several lairs. You are for tun ate if
you know beforehand, as | did where you
are going. ! soon found myself at the Hotel
des Thermes, in the grounds of which is The
Source, as it is called, where you drink from
'"' sprung Vi meaning ine ua'h 's'ao'ish-
ment is in connection with this hotel, and so
is The CcrClc, or Casino, with its great
salons, where the music plays, and where is
ono table for baccarat, and another for
some game of which l am not learned enough
in gambling to give the name.
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