Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-06

joyed the delights of its inyigorating
waters for one season may be depended
upon to sing it's praises and never
fail to return upon the earliest oppor-
tunity.
"Reyond the plunge in a cozy nook
is Lovers Puddle. Here in a delicious
stratum of mud flows warm spring
just large enough for four feet. When
two os the feet are masculine and two
feminine, the water is said to become
so impregnated with electricity you
can see sparks. This is said to be es-
pecially etficacious for heart troubles.
have not been able to walk
that far yet, but they do say the
spectacle of pair of fair ankles of
proper proportions and curves pad
ding in the pool, casts all the famous
hammock poetry in the shade. Some
thing like this, for instance:
She thrust her pretty pedals down
| Amid the murmtrng mud,
And the swish and swast of the gurgling
Filled his hot heart with blood.
The warm spring burst its earthcn bounds
At the touch of her tiny toes:
With lovely caress it trickled around
/ Her ankles, minus hose.
Oh would wore gob of that mud.
~, " r.. q branch OF that bnhblinsg; spring;
| I'd Kiss her feet i'll an endless Hood
IN such q warm young thing.
"But that's neither here nor there,
SO while the lambs paddle their legs
we will return to our other muttons.
The rheumatic visitor here is warned
at the outset that he will be much
worse before he is better and that the
first bath will be a corker on his muscles
and bones and verify it is so. The pa
tient is very much like Mark Twain in
his first experience with scasickness
The first day he's afraid he'll die and
the next he's afraid he wont. When 1
got off tho train in these spring
sprinkled hills 1 could walk after a
fashion. After the third days bath I
was on crutches. The depression
which followed the discovery each
morning that was little worse than
the day before was difficult to dispel.
AT the speed 1 was going down hill
expected to find myself in an ambu-
lance, if not coffin, within another
week. But suddenly there was a
change and when blooming, rosy
checked flower from Sioux City asked
me to do the two-step attempted it
and found it such success that took
several more steps. In fact took too
many steps and found the next day
that there must be moderation in the
use of legs even after they have been
hard-boiled for ten days in the hot
springs.
"People don't all come to Hot
Springs for the water. A great many
come for the air alone, fleeing from
the awful summer heat, and some come
for divorces. Comfortable day, cool
nights. atmosphere full of pure ozone
and no humidity, that bane of rheu-
matte joints, make it an ideal place for
a midsummer rest. The Evans hotel
is massive structure of granite, quar-
ried right in these hills.
Tho hotel is filled during the season
largely from Omaha. Lincoln. Sioux
City and..other western points. although
there are many from further cast An
orchestra enlivens the evening dinner,
which is the swell meal of the day,
when you can put on the best clothes
i'll your repertoire and cut dash if
you wish. In the evening the summer
girl ranges herself on the broad veran-
da and waits for that too infrequent
attachment of IL watering place-a man
10 ask her to dance. Even cripples
are in demand, provided they have
any sort of use for their legs. And
that's howl come to arise next morning
feeling that the springs were not get
ting much action on my grumbling
joints and vowing by Terpsichore and
all the other godesses that l would
never do it tagain-'shelpme!
Its long trip from Quincy to this
beautiful spot-over thousand miles,
but it is one full of interest and scenic
novelties and delights all the way and
the Burlington comes straight through
with the best of accommodations for
ease and enjoyment. was especially
surprised at the firm, substantial char
actar of the roadbed all through the
800 miles of Nebraska. There was no
jolt or jar and it was just about as
smooth riding as ever experienced.
If it were not unpatriotic might add
that in this regard the Burlington in
Nebraska beats the Burlington in Illi-
nois and Missouri. Then up into the
| Black Hills to Deadwood, through
some of the most magnificent noun
tain and canyon scenery on earth, su-
perb observation car gives tile tourist
full swing over sublime landscape,
! filled with new S,lrpriSeS avarv mo,Nant