Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-07-23
HOT SPRINGS SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JULY o. 1897.

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PRAISES HOT SPRINGS
Commandant Linn Writes Enthusiastical-
| ~ And Entertainingly of the
| Springs.
The hills are all about you; the at
mosphere is wonderfully transparent
the sky as brightly blue as Italy's.
Your spirits rise as you drink in the
the crisp morning air. Dust and hot
winds are unknown here. The vagaries
of the thermometer pass unnoted.
And in place of hot streets and hotter
houses are cool canons, great forests of
waving pines and sparkling torrents
that sing their way downwards from
the heights.
The Evans hotel is the first object to
attract your attention. just across the
street from and little to the right of
the union depot, with we'll trimmed
lawns and wide, shady verandas, it pre-
sents most inviting appearance. The
Gillespie, equally comfortable, if a lit
tie less roomy, faces it. The Sioux
City club bouse crowns the bluff on
the further side of Fall River, tink-
ling rivulet that runs through the
town from north to south. The Par.
rott and the Davis hotels are few
hundred feet north of the depot, while
the Catholicon, one of the largest ho-
tells, is nearly mile to the south.
Hot Springs is new town. Most of
! its business blocks are of stone. The
residences, the greater number of
which are on the high land west of the
depot, are undeniably attractive
much more so than one would expect
to find in a town not ten years old.
Some of them are large enough to be
imposing. All are neat and pretty and
admirably adapted to the needs of
their occupants.
The climate of Hot Springs is unlike
that of any other part of South Dako-
ta-unlike even those nearby portions
of the Hills, where one would suppose
the atmospheric conditions would be
precisely the same.
The days are invariably bright-ex-
tremely hot weather rarely encoun-
itered-the nights cool-sudden changes
infrequent. And there is SO little hu-
midity one might be pardoned for say
ing there is none.
The air is singularly pure. 1t tempts
you to stay out doors all day long. 1t
sends you TO bya tired and sleepy, but
happy. 1t rouses you in the morning,
refreshed. inyigorated, ready for the
doings of the day. 1t sends the blood
hurrying through your veins. 1t makes
you hungry, eager to climb mountains,
to walk, to bathe, to dance, to do any
thing and everything that is good for
you. Next to the wonderful healing
waters, it is the one thing that makes
the weak strong and the strong
stronger.
The waters of Hot Springs are even
more wonderful than it's climate. In
the valley in which the town lies are
no less than seventy-five different
springs. The strongest and most valu-
able are the Minnekahta, the Nam
moth, the Stewart, the Lakota and the
Catholicon, which supply nearly all
the bath houses and plunge baths in
the city. The Hygia, or Kidney spring
is also great favorite, Whatever else
is prescribed for the patient, he is told
to "bathe frequently in the Minnekah-
tt, and to drink six glasses of Kidney
spring water during the day, with
plenty of exercise between drinks"
One of the great advantages of these
1 springs is that the temperature is the
same as the human body, and the ad
dition of cold water, or exposure to the
atmosphere to render the water suita-
BILE for bathing is unnecessary. For
this reason the waters retain all their
life giving, disease curing virtues. By
drinking the waters and bathing in
them the pores of the body are opened
and the secretions stimulated to a free
and natural activity. The supply is
constant, invariable and inexhausti-
BILE, flowing nearly million gallons a
a day.
Diseases that are cured: Rhuema.
tism-acute. muscular, infiamatory.
Sciatica and nervous prostration. Dis
eases of the kidneys and urinary or.
gans. Diseases of the stomach, such
as chronic gastric catarrh, dyspepsia
etc. Diseases of the intestines, habit
ual constipation, etc. Asthma and hay
fever. tuberculosis or incipient con.
sumption. Chronic skin diseases Of
all kinds. Neuralgia and paralysis
Liver complaint and jaundice. Gout