Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-11

nfofnssiaii. ny 'nils "rNsllci a dirty |
Doctor, doctor broke in his audi.
MI now can YOU say thiss Is not the
shipy Aud is IL not grand 70 restore n
70 its lost strengthyn
=, Wen, Well, perhaps you are right.
Yes am ungrnteiul: but then, are
moments like this when feel rs thonoh
l could not 60 On.n
On another such day Of deni.esslpn.
no doubt the reaction from thepbvsical
fatigue his work entails, he said Ia Ms
vile; Come, let us 20 awag the chill
dren arc dining with friends. lei us
two dine together at the restaurant,
We will take private room 50 no one
VIII see US. and shall thus be AZ least
Tor few hours without hearing or
seeing physical suffering
And they duly went aud were soon
seated, happy IN each other and with
out cares, awaiting the excellent dinner
they hud ordered. Never did II seem
TO Met2ger that soup had tasted so
good he was In that state Of half salts
ned hunger aud we'll advanced digcs-
uon that makes us all good tempered
ut tho table. Body and spirit were in
repose, when suddenly the door Of the
cabinet opened and IN lieu of the OK
pected second course there entered the
landlord bowling profoundly and re-
spectfully.
Il believe he said, shat have the
honor to sec dining in my house the
celebrated Metzger. / take occasion
oil this fortunate circumstance To sub
nit to him the case Of my adored
child.n
And behold tho restaurant keeper
set going on the themes the doctor
would gladly have avoided for awhile,
and the luolkless masseur was forced to
listen, and indeed after time listened
with interest, since he cannot shut his
Z sympathies to tales of human suffering
and especially to the woes Of children.
In the end his host would not permit
Z him to pay his bill, but ne would rather
; have paid it three times over and dined
| in peace for once.
! Yet, another time when on the rail
5 road, tho doctor resolved, no matter al
: what cost, 10 remain unknown. But
S scarcely was he seated when gentle
r man opposite bowed TO him, saying
a Have | not the honor to travel witt
- the celebrated Dr. MetzgerY'
y mo replied the tormented masseur
r ''my name is Kaiser Aud he stuck L
r it, To friend he one day said: ~ an
y a materiulist j believe in nothing, AM
!. regret it. II must be good to believe
9 to be able to look forward TO something
j beyond, for after all, on this ball OF our
]. all is misery
IS "Then why do you not believer"
G "Well, he said, ~ will il you ca
explain TO me where Is the soul OF
: drunkard.n
= A very child. this Metzgor, this grea
b celebrated masscur, child with tn
l. soul Of an artist and the science an
n the gifts OF a physician.
IS Seeing what source Of wealth tn
IT famous masseur had become to th
ie Amstel hotel, various European hot,
proprietors from time TO time mad
III brilliant offers 70 him TO induce him
&c reside in their city. Paris above al
n offered him the most seducting term
1t was perhaps because he felt more
5 home In German speech that he final
10 let himself be persuaded to decide
l. favor Of Weisbaden as new residenc
lg Certainly the proposals that came fro
az there were most brilliant. A group
Us Weisbadep citizens formed themseN
into q society in 1885 and offered
er build him q sanitarium OF which
IRE should be the chief and muster, whe
'et everything should DO managed accor
1T ing to his instructions, and for who
IT. suDerinteudence he shorld draw
in princely salary besides what
lg could gain from treating priya
50 patients. Towards Christmas OF tn
d wear Metzger left Amsterdam TO emit
&c upon this post He installed hims6
as professionally In the Rhein hooel, liyiI
DE with his family in an elegant villa IN
&C. Quieter street. During tho sumner
m, 1889, finding that the sanitarium W
be not being built according to his vie'
TO and in opposition 10 his instructor
e he quarrelled with the committee al
d. went to law with them for breach
contract thus delaying indefinitely d
n. construction. Indeed, the the law 81
"a was still going on in 1871 when q
he proprietor Of the Rhein hotel faile
cd Metzgerthen received his patients IN J
he own villa which he found suited nj
IN much better then receiving them
he hotels, seeing that here he mad al y
f., needful appliances and comforts OF
IN own home.
h During the winter Of lS9l-e2 he W
called 10 the Russian court 70 attel
IN the empress and tho Granu buVne
lily OLGA, both much seriously shaken aft
ms the Borld accident. II was on this u
'es count that ho was induced once aga
no TO make an exception to his rule IN
ne all patients must come to him. lie
IL manned in Russia two months aecol
MS panied by his wife, who was also reeei
IT. ed AT court and received from the e.
nd press magnificent diamond nnecida
Ia IN recognition Of her husbands ser'
~ ces.
to consists in the fact thai he attach
ng erest Importance to the mode Of liyii
to adopted by his patients, Above
He things he oxacts exercise, either
he means OF gymnnstie or by means OF woF
Sc. and time they should be nourlshed
OBJ eording to lis prescriptions, ~ .
'er time when the empress Of Austria cal
ap 10 Amsterdam 10 consult him, ne on
Iys allowed her 70 drink The milk tn
* came from COW fed according 70
IN, Inscription. or late, during The SUI
sm MGR months Metzgor was practiclng
nd Domburgh, little Dptch sea port l.
IRE nioturesque spot whose ancient wa
oui have been cngnlied BY the, sea a
l which Victor Hugo has rendered
to NOUS in his Souvenirs dc frlclanoe.
pa Here, too, a couple Of years ago, Z
lm queen Of R0umania spent some nohii
ut and also Archduchess Stephanie' y