The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-07-14

the Plcayune maue tnlS tue tneine
of one of its leaders in the I'd of July
issue. in which it went on TO say that
the heat at Evansville. Indiana, was
106 degrees in the shade on Sunday,
July the 1st, while in New Orleans it
was only 90 degrees. That day we
had only SO degrees in Providence,
and it was the hottest day we had in
several years. Several of the Provi-
dence people are spending the summer
in Indiana, not far from Evansville,
some in Missouri and Ohio, and we
would like to know how they felton,
that day. We thought SO degrees hot
enough here, but what must it have
been there with LOG?
Providence is a splendid place to
spend the summer, and this is not
with us case of green grapes either /;
in fact, we much prefer it TO the
North, and as far as bathing is con-
cerned. we think it about as good
here as it is OH the Mississippi Sound.
We see little difference; truly we have
no surf here, but neither have they,
and the brackish quality of water is
largely compensated in our favor by
the depth of the lake and the fine
bottom of it, which is big advantage
over the shallow water of the Sound
and the muddy bottom of its beach.
But is it not unhealthy to battle
here? Water in whole and partial baths
has always been considered as the great
modifier of the skin; it frees it from
all excrementitial matters and stimu-
lates its activity. Hippocrates, the
father of medicine. who lived 800
years B. c., put it down in his
"Aphorisms" that almost all diseases
can be cured by massage and water.
and many of the disciples of Hippo
crates even to this day follow his
theory. Lycurgus, whe gave to the
Spartans the famous laws of hygiene
and the mode of life that have rendered
him and themselves renowned, COM
PEELED the youths of Sparta to take a
bath every day. DIR. Galeano, sur
named Hippocrates Redivivus, wrote
a treatise as far back as 1922, on "the
use of water as curative aud preven-
tive of disease" And to-day, in medi-
cine, water is not only great tonic,
but its medical use has become so gen.
eral that it constitutes even a system
of it's own, the same as allopathy,
homeopathy or the Schultze's system,
called hydropathy or the water-cure,
in which water is employed not only
as therapeutic or curative, but also
as prophylactic or preventive of dis
eases. Every large city in the United
States has hydropathic or water-cure
establishment. New Orleans has one
where the water-cure system of Pro.
fessor Winternitz of Bavaria, is follow
ed with the notifications of Pastor
Kneipp of Woerishofen, Germany.
The system consists in the internal
and external use of water in the treat
ment of all, but especially of chronic
cases. The little town Of Woerishofen.
in Germany, where the system is es-
pecially followed under the direction
of Pastor Kneipp, priest of the Cath
Ollie Church, has no fewer at any time
than 5000 people, and often more, un-
der the treatment of Pastor Kneipp,
aud among them have been several
members ofthe royal family. All go
barefooted at all times, in the heavy
dew especially, and all, men and wo-
men, are daily seen walking knec-deep
in the little brook that traverses. the
town of Woerishofen.
All doctors therefore recognize the
curative powers of water, they all
agree on that question. Many of our
people, however, assert that it is I'M
healthy TO battle in the lake, and those
who have braved public opinion and
taken baths in it, have been considered
as so many foolhardy, who would be
soon stricken down with congestion,
and would pay dear for having ex-
posed "their toes" in the turbid water
of the lake. Over one month has
elapsed since the Can't Get Away
Club began operations. and since then,
many gentlemen and ladies have
taken baths almost daily and yet none
of them seems to have suffered even
as much as an indisposition. 1t is
even astonishing that, Notwithstanding
the fact that every body thought so,
none of the hobbletehoys of tho
town, who go in at in the heat of
the day and remain until and z
O'Clock, seems to have been indisposed.
Water must be like coffee, very slow