The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-27

battlemented, castellated, like a French
chateau, and half concealed in a wooded
park of ravishing beauty. It draws
many jurors, lawyers, witnesses and lit
igants from the surrounding country
and forty saloons are required to irri-
gate the dusty threats of these people
when the sheriffs officer cries recess.
There are also many restaurants, with
meals from Is cents up and, most sur
prising of all, real, unmistakable, fin
de steele lunch wagon, with painted
sides and colored glass windows.
There is a clean, well furnished hotel
here, and there are said to be others
Behind it Is q summer garden, with
tables and chairs. white-garbed walters
and stage. Entrance is free and re.
fined vaudeville is presented by COM
pany of six people every night. It is an
all-summer engagement. The programme
would average up very well with those
on Coney island and 400 people drink
beer there nightly when the weather is
fine.
DUDES AND SUMMER GIRLS.
Being a village of commuters, White
Plains is not without dudes. They
prance up and down Main street in con-
siderable numbers. Charming summer
girls in white muslin go to the postofice
without their hats. Loafers stand in
handsome equipages dash here and there,
especially a fine pair of bays fooled by a
young woman, a rich orphan girl the
belle of White Plains. Off the main thor
oughfare lie the commuters cottages, the
porches covered with happy families, who
enjoy all the comforts of home instead OF
a Harlem fiat for $25 month.
1t is among these that the. gold cure
is carried on in a splendid colonial man
sion. In the prospectuses 1t is starred
| as the Martin mansion, of Revolution
| airy fame" but questions addressed to
| policemen and sundry old inhabitants in
| dictate that its fame did not extend much
| beyond its present uses. lit is an ideal
retreat for man tired of a life of dis
sipetion.
THE GOLD CURE TREATMENT.
! Every day at a. m, u noon and and
p. m. an electric bell buzzes and the
forty patients crowd in to get their treat
| ment.
They are men of all ages, but chiefly
young. They look much like other men.
! because most of them are conValescent,
| but here and there bloOdshot eye or a
rudy nose betrays the owners malady.
| They crowd into line in the long oper-
! ating room like customers at the box Of
! flee of a theater and presently the doc
tor entres-a stout, muscular man-and
| further end Of the room.
He seizes the needle. The first man in
line presents his barred arm.
Paff!
It's over In a second. Perhaps there is
| a slight grimace of pain, as from man
! pricied with a pin, and then the next
man is presenting his arm. Within a
/ quarter of an hour it is all over, and for
! ty men are a stage further on their way
! to recovery.
Now they are putting on their coats,
and some. with unusually tender arms
are nursing them and looking little rue
! full. But before long all are sitting on
the veranda and enjoying their pipes and
newspapers. But If the weather is wet
or cold there are other means of amuse-
ment. In the upper part of the mansion
/ there is a reading room. Adjoining it is
a billiard room, where men of sporting
! proclivities may enjoy themselves. There
are also smoking and reading rooms, all
comfortably furnished.
MR.. PULLMAN GLAD HE WENT.
Since my arrival week ago I have
met men now in good health who q few
short weeks ago We're mental and physi-
! cal wrecks. l have met others who like
| myself, are merely here to shake off a
habit thoughtlessly gained and easily to
be disposed of. The system seems
! equally good In all cases.
Here advanced alcoholism is treated not
as fault but as disease. 1t is recog-
ntzed that the use of stimulants has con-
gested the nerve cells so that they can
| not Of their own force respond to the
| performance of their duties, AMI that in
the ordinary condition OF that man alco-
hol is necessary to his existence.
Consequently there is no effort made
to oblige him to break off. When 1 ar
rived a bottle Of whiskey was given me
and 1 was told to drink as much as
wished.
On the first day I may have taken
eight drinks. Every day since then that
number has been reduced, not with any
effort on my part, but simply because
my desire for stimulants has been on
the wane. Now take nothing more than
nightcap before retiring.
My treatment is not such as IS given
to advanced inebriates, and is not at all
unpleasant. I go to bed usually at or
before o'clock. sleep soundly and rise
! before Z. 1 eat a good breakfast and at
o'clock present myself at the sanitar-
iun for the morning treatment
| THE NEEDLE Is A TRIFLE.
That Ia . simple matter. I had no