The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-03
IN FAR DISTANT BOHEMIA.
NEAR TIE FRONTIER OF BAVARIA
 AND sAxOSY ABOYE THE BALTIC.

Life st rsurensbad-Fsatures of This
 Beautiful and Famous spot-rha vtsi-
 tors, the spring. the People, Customs
 Riches vs. Property, but Little Diseon-
 tent.
 Franzensbad. Austria. Hotel Kon- ingsvilla. Aug. IS. 1S94.-The Adamless Eden of Bohemia Is near the frontiers of Bavaria and saxony. HOO feet above the Baltic sea and near the western boundary line of Austria.
 It is tastefully laid out with well kept parks, clean streets. shaded prom enades. handsome buildings, and Is en- titled to be ranked among the principal health resorts of the world.
 The most noted of its springs are the salz quelle and the Franzens quelle; the waters are used both externally and internally and are said to be mar vellous for nervousness. sleeplessness and every other ailment with which woman (and for that matter man) is afflicted.
 The mineral peat for the baths is dug out from the bogs surrounding the town and after undergoing a process of oxidation 1t Is ground fine by ma chinery and mixed with the mineral water.
 The Franzensbad clientele is mostly composed of ladies and they are more interesting and agreeable to the eye than those at other springs, who wander about, crippled with the gout and yell low with liver complaint.
 The doctors always ride in landeaus, wear long coats and high hats. They are very ceremonious in manner and have great authority over their pa- tients, from whom they expect implicit obedience. ..,
 The waters are taken in the open air before breakfast and again in the af- ternoon at the Fransensquele, where an endless stream of women armed with bohemian glass cups flow In and out from five to six. Princesses jostle against peasants and they all drink in the waters as if they were the real elixir of life.
 There is lace on every dress-lace on the mantels, wraps, lace scarfs, lace shoulders lace flounces. lace fichus. lace fans. lace bonnets. lace inserts, lace everywhere The windows are full of lace and costly laces festoon the shon entrances.
 Life here Is pleasant and unconven- tional; those who seek rest and isola- tion can gratlfy their taste, those Who require cheerful intercourse can always find plenty of persons of the like dispo- sition in the Cut park lolling lazily under the trees listening to- Herr Oel- schlegels fine band of forty men, who play night, noon and morning. every thing from Boom de 'ay" to Wagner.
 And what place the Cut park is on a fine afternoon. It is a perfect babel of tongues of all nations. Everyone is in fine spirits and the concert is not long enough to find out the weak points of ones neighbors.
 You don't known what a God pend an American ia in such a place as this. Americans seem to have ah intuitive know ledge of each other on sight. A bow, a pleasant greeting, an interchange of cards settles the formalities; mutual acquaintances .are discovered, coffee and cigars are ordered, and in a few moments. they grow as confding and comfortable as if they had known each other all, their lives. One soon learns that the amiable and stately lady, sit ting at the table and who Is so fluent in conversation is the Russian Princess Soltykoff. ~''@.'
 The couple at the left is from 9eincn- ati-the gentleman has a pretty daugh- | ter who tells you instantly that she is to be bridesmaid for her dearest friend l who Is to marry German princelet, but she herself would never. ma rrya one but an EAmerican-she pr1mised l papa that she would not and of course l she wont.
 And here, too, we find the English | country vicar, his wife and daughters, | kindly innocent people who are taking a months holiday to look after the | continental chaplainces; always find- ing a wonderful strangeness in every- thing they see and eat-marvelling that there are still so many folks in the world not yet educated to doing things the only proper way-as it is in Eng land.
 A pretty Viennese and her betrothed "A soldat with 8 fierce moustache, wander up and down in the Cut Park linked "fondly hand in hand for the amusement of Americans who do not know ho% lovely a thing it is to be engaged in the Kaiserland.
 Coffee is the only bevsrage on the Cut park, It ts handed scalding hot in the most delicate of china service and has a delicious flavor. Although thick it is net strong and there is not wakeful in dozen cups. .t,
 A glass of cold water invariably ac- companies each cup and the modest, girl who serves it all never forgets to "Kusse die hande," of the "gnadigsr herr"
 The attention of the visitors at pres- ent Is concentrated upon Prince Ferdin- and of Bulgaria and his wife, the Princess Maria Louise of Parma. The prince is a broad shouldered young seldier bristling with decora- lions, firmly set features and always appears in uniform. He bears a strong of his ambitious mother, or,acass Clementino of Coh1,rp noa