The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-07-02

II they at all equal to active sports for skating
coasting, tobogganing, skrunning and every sort OF
snowy fun are much in vogue would almost think
said grown-up men and women really had found the
fountain of youth there among the cesheeted noun
tains
Oriental people take TO the occult as ducks to water
It is not surprising find owercass Chinese and Japan
ese resorng to maryeworking ceners Of one sort and
another to drive away sickness The degree of eduea
ton reached by the individual makes great difference
there, just does here AS the whole world knows
Japanese surgeons and trained nurses second to
in the whole world in their practced familiarity
with all the best modern methods Of work On the other
hand a large constituency Of common people cling to
curious superstons OF their in the garden Of the
Shinto Temple Of Kitano Tenjn, at Kyoto there IS
certain favore image Of bronze bull which many be-
lieye will cure all sorts Of aches and pains n person
rubs strokes the part Of It's body corresponding to the
where they are allng The treatment has at least
the merit Of being simple and cheap and there are
plenty of old in Kyoto ready to testify that it Is
eficacous too.
The very Oldest Of the worlds resorts for marvellous
is in India Benares Compared with the prestige
of that spot the left bank of the Ganges the
time-honored resort in Europe America is mere
fad of to-day The great German scholar Max Muller who
devoted years to the study Of oriental thought de-
cared When Babylon upstart, contendng with
lordy Nineyeh and the early Jewish heroes and kings
Welding the Israetsh tribes into a nation while
Athens hardly more than name, and Rome not yet
thought Of hither toiled streams Of wistful pilgrims
And to Benares they still toing even in this year
of grace 1908 India Is considerably bigger than the
whole United States that the distances be raversed
often hundreds Of miles but at the very time when
this article Is being written sick folk from every part OF
the land making slow. painful journeys on foot to
reach that particular place the Ganges where the
gods have cured many aiing S9aTms OF pilgrims
constantly I'll the riverside temples and line the CHATS
where bathers undress and dress again Rich poor
oste each other on the bank Clean and filthy stand
side BY side waist deep in the ismeng water taking
It up in their hands, snung II up their nostrls In sub
lime indifference TO the fact that only ten feet away
corpse is soaking In the same holy water
The newest American resort for the healing OF man
kinds Ills Is most people have recently heard aProtest
ant Episcopal church in Boston until lately regarded as
stronghold of conservatism. The work Is Intentionally
limited to certain lines especially TO functional troubles
like prostration and hysteria.
The treatment is combination OF spiritual inspiration
and encouragement with uptodate twenuethcentury
medical science and therefore differs fundamentally from
Christian Science which puts taboo the educated
physician It IS announced that the work begun In Boa
ton taken up and developed BY certain churches
in New York where the still higher tension at which
people live makes disorders more prevalent
Maybe we have here the establishment Of new shrines
OF healing even more farreaching their Influence than
those already famous Time win tell.
T. S. MERRIAM