The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-22

unental KIND OF pain, with horizons to IT,
and zones, and parallels of latitude and me-
ridians of long tude, and isuthermal belts
and variations OF tile cOmpaSS-oh, every
| thing tidy ana right up TO the latest devel-
opmeuts, you know. The doctor said it
was Inflammation Of the soul. and just the
| very thing Well, l went right on gathering
| them in-toothache, liver complaint. soften
ing OF the brain, nostalgia, bronchitis. oste-
| ology, fits, c0eoptera, hydrangea, CYCLIC
| peGla britannica, delrium tremens and a
lot Of ether things that I've got down in my
! list that Pll show you, and you can keep it
| if you like and tally off the bric-a- brac as
| you lay il In.
The doctor said l was grand proof of
| what these baths could do; said had come
| here as innocent Of disease as a grindstone,
| and inside of three weeks these baths had
| slniced out Of me every important siment
| known to medical science, along with con-
| siderable more that were entirely new and
poientable. Why, he wanted to exhibit me
| in his bay window"
There seems to be good many liars this
| year.
l began to take the baths, and found them
| most enjoyable; so enjoyable that If hadn't
| lad disease would have borrowed one,
! Just to have preteXt for going on. They
| took me into stone-fl oored basin about IA
! feet square, which had enough strange
looking pipes and things In it TO make it
look like torture chamber. The two half
naked men seated me on pine stool, and
|
| ones wrist playing upon me while they
| kneaded me, stroked me, twisted me, and
| applied all the other details of the scientific
| massage to me fer seven or eight minutes
linen they stood me up and played power
| ful Jet upon me all around for another
| minute. The cool shOweT-bath came next
| and the thing was over. i came out of the
bath-house few minutes later feeling
| younger and fresher and finer than | have
felt since l was a boy. The spriDp and
| cheer de nf oil
| three hours, and the same uplifting effect
| has followed the twenty douches which |
| have taken since.
After my first douche went to the chem
| ISIS on the corner, as per instruct ons, and
asked for half a glass of Challe water. II
| comes from spring sixteen miles from
| here. 1t was furnished to me, but perceiy-
ing that there was something the matter
with 1t l offered to wait till they could get
some that was fresh, but they sal d it always
smelt that way.
They said that the reason that this was so
| much ranker than the sulphur water of the
bath was that this contained thirty-two
times as much sulphur as that. 1t may be
true but in my opinion that water comes
| from cemetery, and not a fresh cemetery
either. History says that one of the early
| Homan Generals lost an army down there
| somewhere. III lie could come bark now
think this water would help bin find it
| again. However, i drank the Challe aud
| nave drunk 1t once or twice every day since
l suppose it is all right but wish / knew
what was the matter with those Romans
My first baths developed plenty of pain,
but the subsequent ones removed almost ali
! OF 1t. | have got back the use OF my arm
these last few days and l am going away
| now.
There are many beautiful drives about
AK, many interesting places to visit and
much pleasure to be found in padding
around the little Lake Bourget on the small
steamers, but the excursion which satisfied
me best was trip 10 Annecy and its neigh
Dorhood You go to Annecy In an hour by
ran, through garden land that has not had
It's equal Tor beauty, perhaps, since Eden,
ana certainly not Eden was cultivated as
this garden is. The charm and loyeliness of
the whole region are bewilderipg. Pct-
uresque rocks, forest-clothed hills sIones
richly bright in the cleapest Ind nsst
grass, fields OF grain without fleck ~ iiaw
dainty OF color and as Shin and shimmery
as siis; ola cray man sions and towers half
pure" m foliage. and sunny eminences
aeep chasms with precipitous walls and a
swift stream of pale blue water between
with now and then tumbling cascade, and
always noble mountains in view. witt
vagrant white clouds curling about tbei]
summit.-Mark Twain Letter to Pittsburr
Dispatch.