Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-09

"FLowERY" MEETING AT THE sPRUDEL. was not it's first good turn to man, as the 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 it was called the "warm bath" long before Charles time, and the TepeHthe "tepid ''- was still an older name. But Charles made 1t 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 III. in his happy time, and Peter the Great and Maria Theresa, and a long line of kings and kngly men.
 It has become the most famous of all mineral springs and the most aristocratic watering place in Europe. Yet the town is always delightful in the thronged season, which lasts from the middle of June until the middle of August, though what is called the regular season begins earlier ani lasts until the 1st of October. At the height of the season the throngs in the town are pie turesque, as Carlsbad Is far enough to the East to gain Asiatic guests, who bring Oriental gorgeousness to the long lines of promenaders 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 all parts of the world, each one keeping his or her place in the line as strictly and as solemnly as one clings to his position before railroad ticket office in some great out-of-town rush. It has its ludicrous side, too, for each one of all the promenading thousands carries an earthenware mug hanging by a strap passed around the neck; glass will not do, as the atNn1o -s,,.11 k,, l..1&f xl.-A
 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 bis mug at his board- ing house, he turned to the gentleman behind him. who ehanced to be an Italian duke, and said: !" A drink from your mug, Mein Herr?" "1t is yours, the noblcman replied, with elaborate courtesy, and presenting it silently slipped from the line. The borrower drank and turned to give back the mug, but found the owner gone. "What wastefulness 1" he murmured, pathetically.
 But men # 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 hither for health and pleasure. Goethe came often, and always with advantage to himself. His first visit was in 17s5, when he passed a pleasant month in the company of Her1er, Frau von Stein and the Duchess Louise. It was Herder who had led him away from the false methods of the French school and brought to bis notice ! Ossian. the Hebrew poets. "The Vicar of Wakefield" :" and Shakespeare. Indeed, CaSs- bad and its society seem to have had weighty influence upon his life, for 1t was while at the springs in the following year that he conceived his well known scheme of stcal- ing away and going to Italy and Greece for quiet study-a journey that bore great fssults for literature.