Graham guardian., 1900-10-26
THE TOBOGGAN CURE
An Effective Swedish Remedy for
Disordered Nerves.
Lightning Trip Down the MountRin
Produces Splendid Appetite and
sound Sleep - A superb
Tonic,

There are many cures nowadays
that do not cure said an American
who, according to the Philadelphia
Press, returned the other day from
Europe, "Who among us does not
know Of woman really in need of
good hard work and bicycle.riding
putting her faith and money in rest
cures? And, in the same breath, some
nvcrtired, overworked, overworried
creature massaging away and per-
foImng the most nerve-racking gym
a&stic feats to get rid of that dread
full nervous feeling
"The world is full of otherwise SEN
sible men and women being violently
manipulated by machinery, massaged
by knobs, expanded by wheels and
pulleys, Strengthened by revolving
pillows or pumped up ana down by
saddles that never touched horse.
In fact, many seem to spend their
lives in the pursuit Of fresh cures.
Yet they still complain.
"Among all the cures of which one
hears the praises sung there has been
no mention OF the toboggan cure.
have been trying it this January in
Sweden, and / have learned to believe
in it more than in electricity, baths,
massage, hot water and minced raw
beef, the mechanical boat or four
weeks OF undiluted feather bed. No
hody in Stockholm calls II the to-
hogganing cure; thatnamei is given to 1t
by one who has realized its benefits
aud who thinks it q delightful rem
cdy for dyspepsia, q splendid builder
up of nerve force.
"When the snow comes and stays
in this northern latitude the world
toboggans, and as the snow comes
early and stays many weeks, the
world has plenty of time in which to
revel in this most exhilarating
sport. The innumerable infants OF
stockholm content themselves with
he diminutive slide behind the IL
brary in the humlegard, The school
Boys rush down the Curving ice
,lope that surrounds the skating
lark. The king and the royal princes
and princesses frolic at Saltsjobaden,
3cyond the great hotel that is para
Z Sc in summer. But the romantic
Us inclined--those who love touch
G / wildness in scenery, and those,
laore practically, who adore really
aplcndid ice Hill (steep, smooth,
straight and long)-go out into the
woods of Djursholm, o village that lies
among the pine trees and the frs upon
the edge of the frozen deep. And
the Djursholm slide is the best within
reach Of Stockholm. About 1000 feet
IN length, it is swept daily, and is
GSi,y visited by those who love to
undergo the cure, aud they SIee many,
oad iRafuue young men and maidens,
an occasional old man, a very per.
s;stcnt girls school, and, of course,
guy number of pink-cheeked, shrill-
voiced children.
ut is an amazing sight TO behold
solemn mite of eight or nine launch
a forth alone. on the flying jour
ncy, calmly resting sideways-like an
cent Roman at the feast-upon q
CWiDutive toboggan. II is, per-
E9TS, even more wonderful to see
some boy Of IL or IA lying face down
HarIe his hands grasping the rum
e rs of one sledge, his feet tucked
through the runners of another, pio-
g e'jag crowd of IL companions at
hr Hkpeck speed through the keen,
sty air, keeping straight course
almost imperceptible wriggles of
ais body, and shooting clear of his
J j zen when the level ice is reached.
' IeIe are indeed good many spills
{. rood many plunges made into the
sof snow that lies heaped on each
side OF the track But nobody seems
II uch the worse, and as for me, look |
'jrou an occasional shock as part of
the cure, like the douche that puts |
the finishing touch to Turkish bath.
seriously, the tobogganing cure, |
undergone in Switzerland or
sweden, is superb tonic, the very |
= 81; [ know. 1t puts gayety into the |
art, color into the cheeks, light into |
ga eyes, strength into the nerves. II |
, ives the patient an appetite that is
Ging, a long succession of nights |
sseG in dreamless sleep. 1t BAN
sacS pessimism and drives away dys-
''cpsia The toll up the hill, dragging
The sleigh, is lightened by the thought
of the excitement of the rush down,
the flying vision of the hurrying
trees, the leap at the little ledge Of
lee that forms a bunker the music
Gf the runners over the sparkling sur
face of the slide, the whirlwind Of
snow in which the patient reaches the
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