St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-12

SO 1T IS again healing spring to-day as it
was in the fifteenth century, when Charles
", Emperor OF Austria and King of b.
hernia. coming home from the wars, stumbled
upon the springs and was healed of a wound
he had got at Crecy twelve years before But
that was not its first good turn to man, as the
good people of Carlsbad are inclined 10 have
us believe, in their natural desire to connect
the Carlsbad discovery with the great king
who gave the springs his august name: for
it was called the warm BATH long before
Charles's time, and the Tepel-the "tepid''-
was still an older name. But Charles made
it famous. if he was not its discoverer and
when once he had built his palace in the
town that grew up about the healing fount-
aims, he set the fashion for royalty that roy
atty has never departed from. For hither
came George III. in his happy time, and
Peter the Great, and Maria Theresa, and
long line of kings and kingly men.
1t has become the most famous of all min
eral springs and the most aristocratic water
ing place in Europe. Yet the town is ALWAYS
from the middle of June until the middle of
August though what is called the regular
season begins earlier and lasts until the 1st
of October. At the height of the season the
throngs i'll the town are picturesque, as Carls-
bad is far enough to the East TO gain A static
guests. who bring an Oriental gorgeouSneSs
to the long lines of promenaders going stead
lily along the colonnades of the cure house.
This is one of the sights worth visiting Eu-
rope for--the long line of slowly pacing men
and women from all parts of the world, each
one keeping his or her place in the line as
strictly and as solemnly as one clings to his
position before a railroad ticket office n
some great out-of-toYn rush. 1t has its
ludicrous side, too, for each one of all the
promenading thousands carries an eaTthen-
ware mug hanging by a strap passed around
the neck; glass will not do as the Carlsbad
springs are 100 hot for that. Somewhere
an amusing story is told of a ma
tive of Prague who bore evidence
in his person and habliments of the
oft-repeaed assertion that Prague is the
dirtiest CITY in Europe. Finding one day that
he turned to the gentleman behind him. who
CHANGED to be an Italian duke, and said: "A
drink from your mug, Mein Herr?' 1T is
yours the nobleman replied with elaborate
courtesy, and presenting it silently slipped
from the line. The borrower drank and
turned TO give back the mug. but found the
owner gone "What wastefulness,'' he MUIR
INJURED, pathetically.
But men of all sorts touch elbow here, and
with frankness and courtesy in the main.
Ones mind returns and returns to them and
women who have come hither for health and
pleasure. Goethe came often. and always
with advantage to himself. His first visit
was in 1885 when he passed a pleasant month
i'll the company of Herder Frau Won Stein
and the Duchess Louise. 1t was Herder who
had led him away from the false methods of
the French school and brought to his notice
Ossian, the Hebrew poets, THE Vicar of
Wakefield" and Shakespeare. Indeed, Carts
bad and its society seem TO have had
weighty influence upon his life for it was
while at the springs in the following year
that he conceived his well-known scheme of
stealing away ard going to Italy and Greece
for quiet study-a Journey that bore great
results for literature.