New-York tribune., 1905-01-09

The conception @ TIE Savoy rs q health resort
cannot be uoZc novel to the reader than it would
have been to ne before began 70 study the
restaurant from this point OF view. But VIII
como at once to NJ sweeping conclusion. When
writer aims not 10 bo G prancer, but useful
beast Of burden, gathering facts and, without
curvets or capers, bearing then to his reader, he
may surely take the shortest road.
1t has been said OF the Rudeshein '' grape
cure " that sI1 pounds of Riesling grapes day
mako a good diet for patients suffering from
g abdominal plethora mot to say from over
eating and lazincss), because tho sufferers are
compelled to gather the b1nches for themselves on
the steep hillside. Sir T. Lauder Brunton has
neatly said Of the Carlsbad cure that it is curious
to find, as one visits the famous watering places,
here some chloride, there sone suIphate, here
some potash, there some magnesium-btlt GJ.rcys
fcater and that the chief virtue Of all spas Is
perhaps that the patients do more early rising,
take more regular exercise, and,drink more water
in the course Of month than they do az home eli
the rest Of the year. The :" Salisbury - cure
living upon minced beef and hot water-iniuees
the sufferer to draw upon his Own fat, ike bear
in winter tins and the famous whey cure
is only another system Of starving a patient
without telling him that habituaIly he eats too
much. love Aix-les-Bains, yet sculIing across
the lake IN the hot sun to Ginet's, or traznpinc
up the Reward, always seemed 60 ne TO be details
Of the famous cure moro important than the fierce
onslaught Of the massage-neu or the solemn ride
in the sedan chair. The - Savoy cure - is like
none Of these. It does not trick one into doing
disagreeabIe things it invites one to eat good
dinner IN pleasant room. And vet think
could prove out OF the mouths OF the highest
medical authorities that there is such thing IS
Savoy cure, and that it is good cure for the
three conmonest OF modern maIadies-disorders
Of the nerves, the stomach, and the circulation
al Of them 50 closely allied that few patients can
claim the elegant eycIusiveness OF an unnixed
illness. The victim, if he be man, often suffers
because he overworks, lacking the rare power Of
choosing the right men to do his work for him !;
oftener because he smokes and drinks too much
and eats too little ofteaast because he eats Ill
designed dinners consisting Of food ll-bought
and iII-eooked. The victim, she be woman,
suffers often because she has her sexs aversion to
a proper breakfast and . proper luncheon :;
oftener because her task Of judiciously spending
her housekeeping allowance is more fatguing than
the labour the male expends in earning fraction
Of his income. The victim may soon share the
habits of The learned pig. and eat too much /;
though doctors say that excess is better than
under-feeding Tie only wonder IS that neuras-
tbenia dyspepsia and defects Of the heart or blood
are not present oftener than they are. The
nerves do their work BY a process much Ike the
81 sudden evanescent glow OF an erber previously
black hot and are as fragile as the Iooped thread
Of an electric lamp. Ard the heart is pump
made Of slender flores instead Of iron, 8 machine
as delicate as EotoCcar built Of cardboard
What can the Savoy Restaurant do to help
those OF Us who are more OF less Affected in some
one of these three respects ? Obviously it can
profess to do 10 moro than TO 1ourisb Us properly
and I fancy / can. show that in no private
house can one hope to be so whOlesomeIy fed
that month of Savoy diet IS the best OF treat
naent when heart, stomach, or nerves are tagged
and that even the habit Of dining two or three
nights week at the Savoy viii relieve many
suffering patients. 7 believe that one can
quote chapter and verse from tho writings OF
eminent pathologistS and show that these experts
have unconscioUsly erected fnger-posts pointing
10 the Savoy. One ueed only weave together
the threads Of their various arguments to show
that the Sayoy-cure is remedy for the many
complaints most frequently brought 70 them for
treatment They do Ios write its name upon
their prescriptio1-forms, at il one analyses the
advice they give upon the subject Cf nutrition
one sees the word . Savoy between the lines.
IN EXPERT ON SAVOY ALR.
The art Of eating, as Of sleeping, begins with
the environment. The air surrounding the
Savoy may not be SO good as that OF Davos-Platz;
but for re2sc1 easily guessed, IL IS better than
that Of any other parU OF London as conveniently
placed. An expert told ne this after careful
observation, and VIII try-to put in untechncal
language the point he makes. Air, like water, Is
good when it is clean and bad when it is dirty.
4 Scotchman invented, some ten years ago, a
machine by wEica the SCOT and ether sorts OF dust
In the GLmosphers can 30 measured The purest
air has been found II the West Highlands OF Scot
land, There one observation showed only 16
particles Of dust floating II each cubic centinetre
CT air; Whil5 the most favourable result il
Switzerland gave more than ZUJ, and II London
more than 2c0, 900 have been found. Armed with
this or some other appIiance-I an describing
what he did, not how he did it-this observer, q
recognized man Of science, prepared for Us q
little chart Of London'5 floating dirt. IN NY
ignorance / should have supposed that as one
went westward from the Savoy, always further
from the factory chiuneys Of East London, the
air would steadily improve. Yet the wesrsr-
in- wayfarer, Is he plods from the Savoy past
Charing-cross and or through ClIbland, Ands the
air grow always worse until he approaches
Dsyonshire-house, where the great open space OF
the Green Park no doubt exercises beneAeeut
influence. When the DGk9 OF Wellington founded
the Carlton Club, the year when the Reform Act
was passed, II probably ia not occur to him
that he would have found better air II he had
chosen a site near Somerset House, where land
was cheap enough in those days. Nor did % The
MARQUIS Committee when thsy chose Trafalgar
square as the site Of the Union Club, suppose that
it was too flr or not far enough west. At sny
rate the investigations Of ny friend the critic %
the atmosphere show that the air il that neigh
bourhood has-within q few Gec!12ls-twics
rs much dirt as the air he tested ct the Savoy.
Those Of Us who lunch Is the Savoy, with the
broad road OF the En5ankneAt 70 take Us after
luncheon eastward TO resume work, OF westward