San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-04
FATHER KNEIPP'S CURE.
DESCRIPTION OF THE TREATMENT
AND BENEFITS.
Where Royalty Goes Barefooted or
In Sandals and Humble Peas
ants Walk All For the
Sake of Health.

story OF his visit to the Fatherlsnd
that cannot fail to interest every
body.
Mr.. Scholz spent one month in
the little country village OF Woeris-
hofen, Bavaria, where he took the
famous water cure of Pastor, or
rather Prelate Kneipp. Mr.. Scholz
has been a sufferer from govt and
after a months stay in the world
famous institute, where water Is
the chief remedy and everybody
goes barefooted, he finds himself
completely cured.
Woerishofen Is quaint little
country village, with low peasant
houses and outlandish customs,
even for the Vaterland. 1t lies in
the picturesque billy portion OF
upper Bavaria, in the region OF
what Is known in that section as
the "Snow Alps" Its peaceful,
plegmatic inhabitants at first
looked with disfsvor upon the in
novation Of Pastor Kneipp's bath
resort, but when they began to roll
in the wealth that the patients of
the institute left behind, they be-
gan to suspect that it is a good
thing after all, and that it has been
in existence about five years with a
grand total Of 10000 patients on its
list up to date, the easy going
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good thing. In fact they have
learned how to grow quite indepen-
ldent and are even said to know
how to mulct strangers.
"Woerishofen," so sayes Papa
Scholz, is a place of 1000 inhabi-
tants. The houses are Of the
pleasant type and the ceilings are
always clean OF cobwebs, because
| the rooms are so low that a man
is continually brushing the ceiling
with his hair. While l was there
Pastor Kneipp was handling 1000
patients. OF course, this little
place OF half that number Of inhabi-
tants was making money caring
for a large number Of visitors.
$50 show you the workings Of
the institute in DETAIL" said Mr..
ScholZ, "Let me go through the
whole program through. which
every stranger must go.
"First you get off at certain lit
tie railroad depot a few miles from
Woerishofen. Here are numerous
and all kinds of vehicles into which
you enter for the drive to that
place. The hotels and private
boarding houses have runners here
too, and already at the station you
make arrangements for your lodg-
ing. The invalid poor are carried
there free, or II able to walk, they
foot it to the village. Arriving
at Woerishoefen, you take
up your quarters. Those who are
penniless are taken in and lodged
and boarded free at the old
Fathers institute.
"Early next morning you regis
ter then a crier calls out your
numb and you are ushered into
a room. 1t is the consulting room.
There sits an old gray haired
father, with good round, good
natured. jovial face, that is Pastor
Kneipp. On one side sits another
father of the church, and mother
is regular physician. Beside
these, the aged prelate, for he has
been recently raised to that dis
tinction by the, Pope, has two
other physicians and priests to as
sist him.
Pastor Kneipp asks what ails
you, you tell him. II it is one Of the
usual diseases that come under the
ordinary treatment, the pastor
says: "Such and such baths, so
many times a day. At the end of
so many days come back and re-
port. Perhaps something is said
as to diet and the next patient is
ordered into the aged prelate's
presence. ...-.
"You follow his instructions and
call again. II the treatment has
proved beneficial, you are told to
continue it. II not, then 1t is
changed. 80
"When some seriously compli-
] Gated case comes up, he consults
1 the physician. After reaching
conclusion the prelate prescribes,
as usual certain kinds OF baths
with detailed instructions as to
how the patient is TO conduct him
| self. =
Sometimes medicine is given, but
it is over some mild form OF tea or
tonic for the system, the baths al
ways being the remedy for the all
| ment.
"The success OF the institute is
something marvellous. Thousands
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