The Irish standard., 1906-08-04
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Every Department Of the Great Enterprise is
Under the Direct Control Of the
Monks of Tepl. +

visitors an average of $4,000 glasses
lof the waters Of the various springs
are handed by uniformed attendants to
patients every day. The monastery
owns and conducts six large public
establishments, including mud baths,
iron baths, steel baths, and baths the
water of which is charged with car
bonic acid gas. Apart from the water
which is drunk by patients at Marien-
bad the monastery exports over
million bottles of water of the Marien-
bad springs every year to all parts
of the world.
Another branch of industry con-
Quoted by the monks is the extraction
of the salt from the waters, which is
then pulverized and crystallized and
sold in boxes in the form of pills or
powders. The monks have erected and
conduct huge hotel called the Tepler-
haus, containing accommodations for
several hundred guests and a restau-
rant in which the best of simple fare
in the world is obtainable at remark
ably moderate prices. The monastery
owns tennis grounds which have been
skillfully 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 on the public
promenades which they and their
predecessors have constructed. Just
recently they have presented 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 oppression Or industrial sweat
ing. The employees of the monastery,
who act as attendants at the public
springs and baths and other estab-
lishments, are we'll fed. we'll clothed,
prosperous individuals. The mon-
astery cares for them in their old age,
and supplies them with medical at
tendance when they are sick. The un-
employed are provided with we'll paid
work, and the physically infirm are
provided with accommodation in cot
| ltage homes.
| A large number Of pauper patients,
who come from all parts of the world,
with recommendations from responsible
persons in their own homes are pro-
vided with board. lodging, and medical
astery, and it is much to the credit
of the monks that considerable num-
ber of the visitors thus gratuitously
treated are orthodox Jews from Po-
land.
The monastery is seven miles distant
from Marienbad, and looks prosperous
with it's huge barns and prize oxen.
But among themselves the monks are
said to live life of extreme simplici-
ty, occupying stone cells which are
equipped with the most primitive
wooden furniture, and subsisting on
the most frugal fare. 1t is only when
they bestow their generous hospitality
on visitors, so visitors are told. that
their table is laden with an abundance
of good things to eat and drink.
| The abbot of Tepl is an important
parsonage indeed, not only in ecclesi-
astical. but also in political and social
circles in Austria. Enthusiastically he
ranks as bishop and in church his
mitre, staff, and throne proclaim the
fact. He is the head of the wealthiest
church corporation in Austria and has
the appointment of all the parish
priests in several hundred Bohemian
villages. Politically he is life mem
Der of the Austrian house of peers and
exercises great electoral influence over
the peasant populace of Bohemia.
Many of the candidates who are elected
to the Austrian legislature from Bo-
hemia are little more than his puppets.
AS member Of the Marienbad town
council, his vote counts as five, which
gives him the balance of power in the
municipality, and that, judging by re-
suits, is no bad thing for Marienbad.
There is nothing better than despotism,
Carlyle maintained. when it is benefi-