Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-29

usually care to listen to. Another monk Is
inspector of sanitation and thoroughly en-
forces the maxim that cleanliness is next
TO goodness. He is assisted by a staff of
doctors and sanitary engineers One monk
is inspector of springs and sees to It that
the requirements of the public are properly
satisfied in his department. All the bath
ing establishments are supervised by
monks. All the extensive farm lands at
tached to the monastery are managed by
the monks
Some idea of the dimensions of the bust
ness operations conducted by the monks
may be gathered from the following fig
ures: During the four or five months of
the year when Marienbad is frequented by
notwithstanding visitors, average of co.,
600 glasses of the waters of the various
springs are handed by uniformed attend
ants to patients every day. The monastery
owns and conducts six large public esfab-
lishments. including mud baths iron baths,
steel baths and baths the water of which
Is charged with carbonic acid gas. Apart
from the water which is drunk by patients
at Marienbad. the monastery exports over
a million BOTTLES of water of the Marienbad
springs every year to all parts of the world.
Another branch of industry conducted by
the monks Is the extraction of the salt
from the waters. which is then pulverfzed
and crystallized and sold IN boxes In the
form of pills or powders The monks have
erected and Conduct huge hotel called the
Teplerhaus. containing accommodation for
several hundred guests. and a restaurant
in which the best of simple fare Is obtain
able at moderate prices The monastery
owns tennis grounds which have been skill
fully laid out in the center of shady forests.
shooting ranges and other establishments
for the provision OF popular amusements.
The monks hire bands to play the public
promenades. which they and their predeces-
sors have constructed. Just recently they
have presented a large stretch of land In
their possession to the Anglo-American
Golf Club and the links are the finest In
Europe
Altogether the reign of the monks is
without exception beneficial to Marienbad
and its inhabitants. There is no oppres-
sion or Industrial sweating. The employees
of the monastery who act as attendants at
the public springs and baths and other es-
adjustments are well-fed. well-clothed.
prosperous individuals The monastery
cares for them in their old age and sup
piles them with medical attendance when
they are sick. The physically infirm are
provided with accommodation in cottage
homes.
A large number of pauper patients who
come from all parts of the world with rec
concentrations from responsible persons In
their own homes are provided with board.
lodging and medical attendance at the ex-
pense of the monastery. and it IS very
much 10 the credit of the monks that a.
considerable number of the visitors thus
gratnitously treated are orthodox Jews
from Poland
niSadsNSFy Is seven miles distant from
Marienbad. and looks very prosperous with
its huge barns and prize oxen. But among
themselves the monks are said to live
life of extreme simplicity, occupying stone
cells which arc equipped with the most
primitive wooden furniture. and subsisting
on the most frugal fare. II Is only when
they hestow their generous hospitality on
visitors, SO visitors told. that their ia
bic is laden with an abundance of good
things TO eat and drink
Perhaps so. Recent scientific experiments
have shown that a sparse and simple diet
is much more conducive to physical we'll
being than a luxurious one. So there Is
nothing inconsistent in the fact that the
monks as seen about Marienbad look ex-
tremely well fed and have the general APP
pearance OF comfortable. cultivated men of
the world In the best sense. The white
serge or flannel habit is sometimes seen
hanging below an ordinary black overcoat.
but as often II Is tucked out of sight, aid
then little OF the monk or priest Is discov-
cradle for the headgear Is an ordinary tall
/ hat or the gray Hombnrg of the tourist
/ have heard that whilom cook of the
monastery declared that In Lent he had to
| provide for 200. though there are only
ninety monks In residence there. This
looks as II when meat was or everybody
] had at least two helpings OF fish. Elk