Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1905-03-23
Battle Creek Sanitariuun.

uays-eVen the pioneer days. when the
redmen OF the northern lake region
Dent the bow and smeared their faces
Win keal--braided their flowing locks
with feathers of the porcupine and
wild eagle. that they might appear
more wild, If possible, than before
ana as they painted the cheeks and
| braided the hair, the squaw-women
sharpened the flint arrow heads and
SNAPPED new bows, that their lords
might do battle to the death with
other redmen.
And here at Battle Creek way I'm
in Michigan, great battle one day
u'u occur, and when it was over, and
tne sun kissed the range to the far
west, the tom-toms were muffied and
the squaw-women wrapped their heads
IN Vari-colored blankets and went for
with the going down of the sun. MANY
braves passed to the proverbial happy
hunting grounds.
Out mat was many, many moons
ago. as the Indians measure time. and
a new era has long since dawned.
True, 1t is Battle Creek" today lust
as II was decades ago, but, instead of
tne cry OF the savage, is heard the
mum OF industry; the throb of life.
the greeting of men and women of
me Anglo Saxon race-the shouts of
happy boys and girls, who know of
Battle Creeks former history only
py tradition. And here on the site
Oh the famous battle between the red
men stands now one OF the fairest
cities or the great Northwest; a city
sought out among thousands. for in 1t
dwell, month after month. as the
years come and go. men and women
who find within the charmed circle
that which they have long sought else
where-health,
Wnen one speaks of health. the
mind naturally wings itself to Battle
creek, Tor up there health is to be
round as at few other places on earth
forty years ago there began In Bat
Tie Greek return to nature move
ment, with purposes and pricinples In
many respects similar to those which
lea TO the famous Brook Farm Exper-
lment twenty years before and to The
Grahamite movement of that period,
Inls movement, while religious, was
aVoWedly non-sectarian, and was in a
broad sense philanthropic, altruistic
ana 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 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
oefore), thorough reorganization was
erected Broader plans were intro.
iuced, the methods of treatment were
placed upon a substantial and thor
)ughly scientific foundation, and the
lame was changed to the Battle Creek
oanltarlum. Since this time the
growth of the institution has been con-
tant and rapid.
From year to year accommoda-
ions for patients and facilities for
reatments were enlarged to meet
ne increasing patronage until Feb
uary, 1902, when a great fire swept
way the two principal build
ngs of the establishment. The cree.
ION OF new building was speedily
egun. and the following year, MAY 81.
9O3, the present fireproof main build.
ng, erected at cost of more than
100000, was dedicated The cost of
ne entire establishment, including
qulpment, twenty dormitories. cot
ages and other buildings has amount.
to more than $1,200,00O.
The Battle Creek Sanitarium as IL
.ands to-day is recognized the world
yer as the most complete and thor.
lghly equipped establishment of its
ort and the headquarters for physio-
gic therapeutics or natural methods.
Connected with the Sanitarium is a {
raining School for Nurses, in which |
ON two to three hundred nurses are I
under training. l
These principles and methods have y
enetrated to the remotest parts OF a
le civilized world, and scores of men Il
i'd women who have been trained in c
Iese methods are devoting their lives b
medical missionary work in heather g
uds. il
The Battle Creek Sanitarium may he q
garded as an epitome of the return. b
nature idea in practical operation. b'
success in the restoration of sick it
'ople to health brings to it annually q
any thousands of men and women OF
any OF whom have been pronounced or
durable, but who, nevertheless with 81
re exceptions, return a few manths to
ter to their homes prepared to enter to
ain upon the battle of life.
There are many sanitariums in the du
'rld, but few, if any. that are con. sa
cted on the same plane as that at Tt
title Creek This haven of rest and 70
attn is in no sense a money.m.t- du
scheme, and every cent that 10 So
'de from patients who are able to tn
for their accommodation is used
help those who have nothing but bri
oxen health. All over this country un
4 even beyond the seas branch in. VIC
buttons are springing up-creepers OF
m the mother plant at Rattto gu,
'ek' one point in view is down on me
tie street, in the center of the mo. sti
polls of the Middle West, Chicago Me
ere hundreds of the city's poor arc