The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1905-03-21

@ay S'SH the piOnSeE udyS, WueH lue
redmen of the northern lake region
bent the bow and smeared their faces
with keal-braided their flowing locks
with feathers of the porcupine and
wild eagle, that they might appear
more wild, if possible, than before.
AND as they painted the cheeks and
braided the hair, the squaw-wome
sharpened the flint arrow heads and
shaped new bows, that their lords
might do battle to the death with
osher redmen
And here at Battle Creek. way up
In Michigan, great battle one day
did occur, and Wi en- 1t was over, and
the sun kissed the range 10 the far
west, the tomtOms were muffied and
the squaw-women wrapped their heads
in var-colored blankets and wept, for
with the going down of the SUM- many
braves passed to the proyerbial happy
hunting grounds.
But that was many, many moons
ago, as the Indians measure time, and
new era has long since dawned,
True, 1t is Battle Creek" today. just
as it was decades ago, but, instead of
the cry of the savage, is heard the
hum of industry: the throb of life;
the greeting Of men and women of
the Anglo Saxon race-the shouts of
happy boys and girls, who know of
Battle Creeks former history only
hu trad
o. the famous battle between the red
men stands now one of the fairest
cities of the great Northwest; city
sought out among thousands, for In it
dwell, month after month, as the
years come and go, men and women
who find within the charmed circle
that who they have long sought else
where-health.
When one speaks of health. the
mind naturally wings itself to Battle
Creek, for up there health is to be
found as at few other places on earth
Forty years ago there began in Bat
tie Creek return to nature move
ment, with purposes and pricinples in
led to the famous Brook Farm Exper-
iment' twenty years before and to the
Grahamite movement Of that period
This movement, while religious, was
avowedly uon-sectarian, and was in a
broad sense philanthropic, altruistic
and reformatory. The immediate re-
suits were the establishment of a
monthly Journal now known as Good
Health and shortly afterwards the
erection OF health institution called
THE Health Reform Institute" The
chief features of the institute at this
early period were diet reform, dress
reform and the use of water as a cura-
tive agent. |
In 1876 the present management !
took charge of the institution and with
the consent and cooperation of the
Board of Directors (the institution
having been Incorporated ten years
before), thorough reorganization was
erected. Broader plans were intro
duccd, the methods of treatment were
placed upon a substantial and thor
oughly scientific foundation, and the
name was changed to the Battle Creek
Sanitarium. Since this time The
growth of the institution has been con.
slant and rapid.
From year to year accommoda
ions for patients and facilities for
treatments were enlarged to meet
he increasing patronage until Feb
'uary, 1902, when great fire swept
away the two principal build
ngs of the establishment The cree.
ion of new building was speedily
begun, and the following year May 81,
1903, the present freproof main build
ng, erected at cost OF more than
100000, was dedicated. The cost of
he entire establishment, including
equipment, twenty dormitories, cot.
ages and other buildings has amount
I'd to more than s1200,000.
There are many sanitariums in the
world, but few, II any, that are con.
lucted on the same plane as that at
Battle Greek This haven of rest and
al {
ng scheme, and every cent that is !
made from patients who are able to
Jay for their accommodation is used
o help those who have nothing but
roken health. All over this country.
nd even beyond the seas, branch in =
titutions are springing up--creepers r
rom the mother plant at Battle
'reek. One point in view is down on +
state street, in the center of the me.
ropolis of the Middle West, Chicago. 4
There hundreds of the city's poor are c
AIRED for as tenderly as if in the par T
MT institution at Battle Creek. r
In a few brief paragraphs one can !
ell but little of the good work of the (
'attle Creek Sanitarium, but a postal ;,