The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-19
TOBoGGAN CURE For THE NERVES
Produces a Splendid Appetite and Is
Followed by DreamIcss Sleep.
From the Philadelphia Press.

Followed by DreamIcss Sleep.
From the Philadelphia Press.
There are many cures nowadays that
do not cure" said an American who re-
turned the other day from Europe. who
among us does, not know of woman
really In need of good hard work and BIZ
cycle riding putting her faith and money
in rest cures? And, in the same breath,
some overtired, overworked, oVerWorried
creature massaging away and performing
the most nerveracking gymnastic feats
to get rid of that dreadful nervous feel
ing
The world is full of otherwise sensible
men and women being violently mauipu-
lated by machinery, massaged by knobs,
expanded by wheels and pulleys, straight
ened by revolving pillows pumped uD
and down by saddles that never touched a
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 I have been
trying Ii this January in Sweden ard l
have learned to believe in 1t more than in
electricity, baths, massage. hot water and
minced raw beef, the mechanical boat
or four weeks of undiluted feather bed.
gaming cure; that name is given 10 il by
one who has realized its benefits and who
thinks 1t a delightful remedy for dysPep-
sia, a splendid builder-up of nerve force.
when the snow comes and avs in thi;
northern latitude the world tobo sgans,
and as the snow comes early and stays for
many weeks the world has plenty of time
in which to revel in this most exhilarati0g
sport. The innumerable infants of Stock
holm content themselves with the dimn-
utiye slide behind the library in the Hum
legard. The schoolboys rush down the
curving ice slope that surrounds the skat-
ing park. The King and the royal prin es
and princesses frolic at Sal.sjobaden, be-
You'd the great hotel that is a paradise in
summer. But the dramatically inclirel-
those who love a touch of Witness in
scenery, and those, more practical, wro
adore a really splendid ice hill (ste=p,
smooth, straight and long)-go out into
the woods to Djursholm village that
lies among the pine trees and the frs up
on the edge of the frozen deep. And the
Djursholm slide is the best within reach CT
Stockholm Abont 1000 feet in length, it
Is swept daily, and is daily visited by
those who love to undergo the cure and
they are many, and include young m
and maidens, an occasional cid man,
very persistent girls school, and of course,
any number of pink-cheeked, slrill-voi ed
children.
ut is an amazing sight to behold a SOL
emn mite of or 8 launching fo'th alone
on the flying journey. calmly resting sida-
ways--like an ancient Roman at the feast
upon a diminutive toboggan. 1t is, per-
haps, even more wonderful to see some
boy of IL or IA lying face downward, his
hands grasplng the runners of one jg',
his feet tucked through the runners OF
another, pioneering a crowd of twelve
companions at breakneck speed through
the keen, frosty air, keeping a straight
course by almost imperceptible wriggles
OF his body, and shooting clear Of his bur-
den when the level ice Is reached. There
are indeed a good many spills a god
many plunges made into the soft snow
that lies heaped on each side of the a tx
But nobody seems much the worse and as
for me, look upon an occasional shoc6
as part of the cure, like the douche trait
puts the finishing toucn TO Turkish
bath.
Seriously, the toboganning cure, whe,h-
er undergone in Switzerland or in Sweden,
is a superb tonic, the very bsst l know.
II puts gayety into the heart, Acolor into
the cheeks, light into the eyes, stIeng h
into the nerves. 1t gives the patient an
appetite that is charming, a long sue es-
sion of nights passed in dreamless sleep.
1t banishes pessimlsm and drives away
dyspepsia The toll up the hill, drag
cling the sleigh, is lightened by the
thought Of the excitiment of the rush
down, the flying. vision of the hurrying
trees the leap at the little ledge Of ice
that forms a bunker the music o. he
runners over the sparkling surface Of the
slide. the whirlwind of snow in which the
patient reaches the goal