Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-05

A .FIowERY" MEETING AT THE sPRUDEL. good people of Carlsbad are inclined to have US believe, in their natural desire to connect the Carlsbad discovery with the great king who gave the springs his august name; for 1t vns called the "warm bath" '" long before Charles time, and the Tepcl-the "tepid"- was still an older namc. But Charles made it famous, if he was not its dIsoverer, and when once he had built his palace in the town that grew up about the healing fountains, he set the fashion for royalty that royalty has never departed from. For hither came George H. in his happy time. and Peter the Great and Maria Theresa, and long line of kings and kingiy men.
 It has become the most famous of all mineral springs and the most aristocrstc | watering place in Europe. Yet the town is always delightful in the thronged season, which lasts from the middle of June until
 tho middle of August, though what is called | the regular season begins earlier and lasts until the lst of October. At the height of the
 season the throngs in the town are pie turesque, as Carlsbad is far enough to the East 10 gain Asiatic guests, who bring | Oriental gorgeousneSs to the long lines of promenadcrs going steadily along the colon- nades of the "cure house." This is one of the | sights worth visiting Europe for-the long | line of slowly pacing men and women from Il all parts of the world, each one keeping his or
 her place in the line as strictly and as solemnly | as ono clings to his position before railroad ticket office in some great out-of-towu rush. | It has its ludicrous side, too, for each one of all the promenading thousands carries an
 earthenware mug hanging by strap passed | around the neck; glass will not do, as the II T. | where an amusing story is told of native of Prague who bore evidence in his person and | habIliments of the oft-repeated assertion that | Prague is the dirtiest city in Europe. Finding one day that he had left his mug at his board ing house, he turned to tho gentleman behind him, who chanced to be an Italian duke, and
 said: [" A drink from your mug, Mein Herr "
 alt Is yours, the nobleman replied, with
 elaborate courtesy, and presenting 1t silently
 slipped from the line The borrower drank and turned to give back the mug, but found
 the owncr gone .whRt wastefulnossi" he | murmured, pathefically-
 | But men f 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 hithcr for health and
 pleasure. Goethe came often, and always
 with adyantase to himself. His first visit
 was in l7ss, when he passed a pleasant month
 in the company 9SHcreer, Frau von Stein | and tho Duchess Louise IL was Hcrdcr who | had led him away from the false methods Of | the French school and brought 10 his notice | Ossinn, the Hchrcw poets. - The Vicar of | wakcneld.- - and Shakespeare Indeed, Carls- | had and xs society seem to have had a | ucishty influence upon his life. for it WAS | while at the springs in the following year that
 hc conceived his voll-k known scheme Of steal
 inz away and going to Italy and Greece for
 quiet study-a journey that bore great rssaltl for literature.