The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-19
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the last forty years. however, the care OK
mortal bodies has absorbed a considerable
portion OF my time and strength mis-
work l have never sought after; on the
contrary. every person coming to me Is
naturally a burden He who has been In
want and misery himself knows how 10
symDathize with the want and misery OK
his neighbors."
1t was among his poor peasant ~neighbors
that this good physician began his work.
Gradually his fame as a healer Of men
spread among the peasantry of the neigh.
boring villages, who came from far ana
near to ask for his care and advice. Grad
grade came TO Father Knelpp and asked
Xneipp cmre BEGAN TO be TAXED about by
the higher classes in Germany and France,
and to-day Woerlshofen has become a
s seisaP.e E Every 1 rosai family in a Europe
seems 10 have been represented here by
duchesses, princes and princesses. counts
and barons are too common TO be noticed
at WoerIshofen. The simple. common
far kept this tiny Bavarian hamlet the
most perfectly and entirely democratic
place l have ever seen. Priest and noble.
peasant and bourgeois. rich Americans and
exclusive Britons. meet here on a basis
Of absolute equality. Everybody here is in
come hardened TO a ruder, healthier mode
of life than that they have already known.
Nothing short of this fixed determination
would, / think, keep any civilized person in
so unciviliZed a place.
The hotels are abominable, the food SIM
pie, the service indescribably bad. There Is
no casino, no club, or any place Of meeting
whatsoever, and this is all as Father
Kneipp would have IL. Ny room is a small
and melancholy cell, but IL is flooded with
sunlight, the greatest Of all Injuries. IF
you had a pleasant room, with easy chairs.
you would stay indoors" says kneipp, and
at Woerishofen rooms are only places to
sleep and dress in. The only salon is the
bare, grim dining-room, with a window
leading into the kitchen; here when the
guests have dined the walters have their
dinner, drink their beer, smoke their pipes.
The result Is just what Kneipp wishes
people live out of doors in the balmy pine
woods which surround the village on every
side. The coffee and tea are so bad that
nobody drinks them, consequently we all
take n great deal Of the delicious milk. The
butter is fit for a kings table, and the
honey is of the sort the queen eats with her
bread in the parlor. The bread is excellent,
and IL is possible to get good beefstealS,
roast chicken and grapes, which almost
console me for the figs of Italy. which we
left in the height of their second and best
season. With this limited bill OF fare one
must be content. ut is more than poor
people can Afford" says kne!pp. land you
rich people have eaten too much all your
lives" Everybody is rich at Woerishofen
who does not earn his living by manual la
dor. We are in the best hotel (which Is
the worst l have ever seem, and conse-
quently the company here is rather aristo-
cratic. Many OF the people have titles. but
IL sometimes happens that one hears moth
ing about their rank till they leave.