The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-09
Seventy-fiye Thousand People
Annually Visit the Springs
In Quest of Health.

=zzEE 10 lalk VII ytI- I1SS' IAi4otSi'
J. s s5 @ drink * cents want don't to- ba Tsns
bath"
In any other part of the world hail
like that from Weary Raggles would
startle you, wouldn't it? But in that cor
ener of the land where they Keep volcano
water on tap it is to be expected. There
isn't another such a place in the world as
Hot Springs, Ark 1t is the funniest mix
of the swell and the poverty stricken,
the oldest combination Of nature and art
in this land, or any other. Here is one
of the biggest hotels in the country, with
an orchestra for dinner and ''gawf'
somewhere about the premises, yet in the
very shadow Of it is a log shack bearing
the name Of The Little Eastman, and
offering lodgings at 10 cents a night or
90 cents week In the big motel you will
see swens, no end; and coaches and cebs
and drags, and all sorts OF new things
that used 10 be --orseS and wagons when
we were young, are driven to the doors
on pleasant days, wh--e just around the
corner are Prayed Frederick and Pinguid
Percy and Drouthy fuss waning to
be invited. says a correspondent of
Brooklyn Eagle. On one SIZE of the street
it is the United States and ON the other
it is Arkansas. ---e ,-e United States
side the best, though you would not miss
the other for 4 good deal.
Believing that hot water was good
thing for its soldiers and sailors, hoping
possibly that they would mix it in judi
ciOus quantities with their drink the
government some years ago bought the
hill from which the water bubbles and
put up a hospital for such of it's boys in
blue as were incapacitated from service
by reason Of rheumatism, and some other
complaints Now, hold on. You think
bad. The other complaints are not what
that The hot springs were remedial in
case OF certain mysterious and awful
things that people in society only whisper
about. Not so. Isn't it enough that I
have been there TO prove it otherwise?
The hot water in the caverns Of the
earth IS just as eficacious as the hot wa
ter that you draw in your bathtub when
the authorities are willing to let you have
any, and are not trying to scare you
into believing that there is no hope for
this town unless il rents water from
Ramapo. You can believe as much more
about the Arkansas water as you want to,
and the more you believe the better you
get, but l repeat that the water is just
as good as the water in Brooklyn
At night the springs are turned off,
Sn1 you don't wash. If you belong to
the Society for the Encourag cement of
rheumatism you must wear the regalia
OF the order only between getting up
TO begin a course of baths you get up
before bre allfaSt and wrap a bath robe
or something about you and walk down
the corridor Of your hotel, exciting not
the least attention. If you were to do
this at the Swelldoff- EIysteria no doubt
the walters and others would gather
around and CRITICS you, but nobody cares
in Hot Springs.
MUST HAVE AN ATTENDANT.
with oar minds cool. So, having got up
which is customary, and put on bath
robe, which is recherche, and paraded
down the aisle, which is necessary, you
enter the bath house and signify to the
clerk at a desk that you want a wash,
which is optional.
All right, sir. Who do you want? ?"
'Not who, but what. A wash"
We'll, but you can't have a bath with
out attendance, can you?'
Well / manage it every morning at
home somehow"
Il VII see who is disengaged"
"Gon needn't bother ! reckon I'm able
to get into the water alone. haven't any
rheumatism"
We'll but you have 10 have an attend
ant or your bath doesn't do you any
good"
q. guess it will take off three days
railroad dust and sinders''
Just wait minute and I'll see il
Theos disengaged. Here, Thco, one
more to so in
Yes sab. Right dis way, sab Like
de water pretty warm, sab? Yes, sab.
You can be undressing waile / draw
de water, sab.
And your black an00r makes to-do
of drawing an ordinary tub full of
water, which steams, and Of tempering
ii with cold water, and floating a ther-
In aaiSp hot
temperature is 1e5 degrees, or whatever
It is, for there would be fearful consc-
quences if it was 10i degrees. and after
stirring up the pool considerable, he
SAYS, Now you can get in, sab"
'All right, and new you can mean
der
''Rut how can you get q baIf, sab, IL
don't have no tendant?'
Same as L always do. Valnosn."
''Of co'se, if you say so, boss. but It
mint reg lar
Shall one be q new Columbus, a new
luther, new Mirabeau, by being ir-
regular? Sublime thought! Dare we,
then. do what none other ever did be-
fore? We will wash in Arkansas with
out witnesses!
But then comes the perplexing CUES
ton, What am I missing? Maybe It
would be better to let this imp work
MS VIII, to see what there is in it." So
You poke your head through the cur
tains, that do the service of door. ana
say. "Au right. DO the trick
Theopnrastus Merlin returns, smiling
hack 10 his ears, for why is he there,
If not for tips? You recline in the hot
water up to your chin, and Theopnras-
trs. sorping a rough glove, washes you
That's all. You knew you could have
done it. hut you thought maybe there
was some secret that called for an in
itiatien and the giving of degrees. "You
see explains Theophrastus '1t's nee
essary to rub yo under de watah, cause
dat enables de watah for to act on yo'
system'
(which is my systcYn9"
"Why. de system, boss is whan lie
watah acts. Jest had to act on de sys-
tenn, or de Tatah don do no good Now
You see, if it wasn't for rubbin' in de
watah dey wouldn't be no effect from
T. and after de baI you wouldn't feel
A2 soad. But so long as de 5aif acts
on Yoa' system it does Il pcw ful lot
Of benefit"
So after this manner had my system
scted on, ara felt lust the same after
as before, and on getting ont discovered
no towels. 'AN-nat do ! get dry With"
] asked
Thc"phrastus lifted his eyebrows
there's a piece OF xupevcgation; the idea