Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-08

suggests . sore piano leg. By attention
and practice the pail bearers have got SO
that they can keep out Of step all the time
and they do it. As q consequence their
yelled churn goes rocking, fitting, swaying
along like bell buoy in ground swell.
1t makes the oldest sailor seasick to look at
that spectacle.
The Details of tho Course.
The ''course" is usually Is douche baths
and 8 tub baths. You take the douche
three days in succession, then knock off and
take tub. You keep up this distribution
through the course. If one course does not
cure you, you take another one after an in
terval. You seek local physician and he
of bath required for it, with various other
particulars; then you buy your course
tickets and pay for them in advance-S9.
With the tickets you get memorandum
book with your dates and hours all set
down in it. The doctor takes you into the
bath the first morning and gives some in
structions to the two doucheurs who are to
handle you through the course.
The pour boires are about 10 cents to each
of the men for each bath, payable at the end
of the course. Also at the end of the course,
you pay or francs to the superintendent
of your department of the bath house. These
are useful particulars to know, and are not
to be found in the books. A servant of your
hotel carries your towels and sheet to the
bath daily and brings them away again.
They are the property Of the hotel; the
French Government doesn't furnish these
things. You meet all kinds of people at q
place like this, and if you give them q
chance they will submerge you under their
experiences, for they are either very glad
or very sorry they came, and they
want to spr- ad their feelings out and
enjoy them. One Of these said to me:
Had Inflammation Of the Soul.
TITS great, these baths. didn't come
here tor my health, only came to find out
if there was anything the matter with me.
The doctor told me if there was the symp-
toms would soon appear. After the first
douche had sharp pains in all my muscles.
The doctor said it was different varieties of
rheumatism, and the best varieties there
were, too. After my second bath had
aches in my bones, and ekuli and around.
The doctor said it was different varieties of
neuralgia, and the best in the market, any
body would tell me so. got many new
kinds Of pains out of my third douche.
These were in my joints. The doctor said
it was gout. complicated with heart dis
ease, and encouraged me to go on. Then
we had the fourth douche, and 1 came out
on stretcher that time, and fetched with
me one vast, diversified, undulating con-
tinental kind Of pain, with horizo to it,
and zones, and parallels of latitude and
meridians of longitude, and isothermal belts,
and variations of the compass-oh, every
thing tidy and right up to the latest devel-
opments, you know. The doctor said it was
Of the soul, and Just the very
thing Well, went right on gathering
them in, toothache, liver complaint, soften
ing of the brain, nostalgia, bronchitis, oste-
ology, fits, coleoptera, hydrangea, cyclo-
pedia britannica, delirium tremens, and a
lot of other things that I've got down in my
list that I'll show you, and you can keep it
ii you like and tally off the bric-a-brac as
you lay it in.
''The doctor said was a grand proof Of
what these baths could do; said had come
here as innocent Of disease as grindstone,
and inside of three weeks these baths had
sluiced out of me every important ailment
known to medical science, along with con-
more that were entirely new and
potentable. Why, he wanted to exhibit
me in his bay window"
There seems to be a good many liars this
year.
The Baths Are Taking.
I began to take the baths, and found them
most enjoyable; 20 enjoyable that if
hadn't had disease I would have borrowed
one, Just to have pretext for going on.
They took me into q stone-foored basin
about IA feet square, which had enough
pipes and things in it to
make it look like torture chamber. The
Two half naked men seated me on q pine
stool, and kept q couple Of warm water Jets