Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-14
.,YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY AND YOU
TAKES YOUR CHOICE"

TAKES YOUR CHOICE"
We think it the duty OF a Los Angeles
Journal to call attention, from time to
time, to the leading attractions of the
section in which it is published. Es-
pecially is this the case when the in
formation thus conveyed to outside par
ties may be distinctively contributory to
their well-being. The fame of the
Arkansas Hot Spring is certainly con-
terminous with the United States, and
has at least reached the scientific cen
tiers of Europe. Thousands and tens of
thousands of people go there yearly
from all portions OF the United States
for the cure of ailments of various
kinds. In fact, the place itself has be-
come an invalid city, and undoubtedly
multitudes date their restoration to
health from a visit to this fam GUS
resort.
The number of people who know tn at,
in the immediate neighborhood of Los
Angeles, we have in the Arrowhead Hot
Springs a resort of even greater efficacy
is very limited indeed. 1t is limited
even in Southern California; while,
in the eastern states, knowledge
of this resort is SO restricted as
practically to amount to nothing. And
yet it is only too true, and in addition to
its healing waters the Arrowhead has
mud baths of sovereign efficacy in many
lines of those ills that flesh is heir to.
People go to Carlsbad, Austria, from
all quarters Of the world. This cele-
brated resort has been an agency of
good and healing to myriads. 1t is so
deliberately patronized by wealthy vale
tudinaries that it has become gorgeous
sanitarium, embellished by lavish
wealth and made attractive beyond even
the healing of its waters.
There is hardly fraction OF the peo-
pie of Southern California, to say
nothing of those OF the United States at
large, who know that the ingredients of
the Arrowhead waters are substantially
the same as those of Carlsbad. A care
full analysis has been made of the waters
of one of the springs by Prof. E. w.
Hilgard, chemist of the State univer-
sity at Berkeley, with the following
result:
Temperature of water, 1913 deg. F.
Sulphate of potash, grains per gallon A. 001
Sulphate of soda, grains per gallon 49,. AZ. 476
Chloride OF sodium, grains per gallon. S,17s
suiphate OF lime, grains per gallon .s43
carbonate OF lime grains per gallon. 343
Free sulphuretted H1b. cubic inches per '''' 'e''
strontium .....................W Well marked
Sulphate of magnesia ...................1 46
carbonate OF magnesia. ..................... 32l
organic matter --'.-......-...,......... trace
1t is scarcely necessary that we should
tell the readers of the HERALD that we
are influenced in writing this article by
two motives. The first is, of course,
the patriotic desire that our attractions
should be recognized abroad, and
should, all of them, be means of draw
ing persons to Southern California who
would be benefited by their experiences
here and who would benefit the section.
Our second motive is pure benevolence.
Whether they stay or go, we would like
to do all in our power to aid suffering
humanity. This duty is the more ext
gent upon us because it involves very
trifling sacrifice in rendering it to our
fellow man.
Not only are the waters equal to those
of Carlsbad for drinking purposes, with
the matchless climate of Southern Cali
tornia thrown in, but the mud baths are
something unique and unrivaled. Peo-
pie afflicted with rheumatism arrive at
these baths on crutches; and, in three or
four days, they throw the crutches away,
having no further use for them. Be-
tween the stimulating effect OF the rare
and pure mountain air and the baths,
cures are effected in one-half the time it
would take to 60 to Carlsbad and back.
The writer has seen men of sixty-fve.
and who looked their age, converted, as
to all appearances, into men of forty
I'VE by single months sojourn at these
springs. Their waters are simply mirac-
ulous, and for the first time in their his
tory they are In competent hands.
The mere dilettanti deliver in health
that is to say, a man or woman with
fancy ailments-can enjoy delicious
air and quiet, and become even often
sively healthy, by short stay at this
resort. If man wishes to paw merely
q flying visit he can take mud bath in
the morning at Arrowhead and, in the
evening, he can disport in the waters of
the Pacific ocean at Santa Monica, Re-
dondoor Long Beach. In the language
of the well-worn showman's vocabu-
larry, "You pays your money and you
takes your choice"-mountain, mud
bath or ocean plunge. And all this is
done in Southern California, in the lam
guage OF the Sheriff of Nottingham, in
Robin Hood, ''for variety's sake" Ma
kura ia indeed kindly hereaboute. eape-