Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-04
AT MARIENBAD.
The Famous Resort Is 100 Years Old The Kings Visits.

The Kings Visits. Marienbad is celebrating this year its centenary. Just 100 years ago the Abbot Pfrognr of Tef, the great !, monastery of these Bohemian up- lands and the owner of all these for ests and moorlands, was induced by the monk Reitenberger, his secre- tary, and by Dr Nehr, his doctor, to erect small shed over the spring of the Kreuzbrunnen, with house ca pablo of holding some ten beds and a few baths.
 Up to then the spring had beer | flowing free in the moor, and 1t was only by springing from stone to stone that 1t could be reached. The at tention of Dr Nehr had been called to it's wond ] proprieties. He saw I the possibilities of the place, and thus laid the fortunes of the monas- tery. As some pious peasant had hung a rude picture of the Holy Vir- gin on a tree above the spring the abbot had the hamlet christened Marien-Bad, the bath of the. Virgin 1 Mary.
 Now the place is famous the world over, writes the correspondent of the Queen, and some 30,0O0 persons seek the cure here every year, the majority in the hope that their too l solid flesh may melt away. Above all, Marienbad is proud of the fact that King Edward has been coming here for eight years.
 The king takes the cure very seri- ously. He walks down from his hotel, the Weimar, to the kreuz- brunnen every morning at o'clock, and alternately strolls about or sits under the trees while slipping his two glasses.
 In previous years the crowd was very troublesome. because of it's con- suming eagerness to observe his 1 every movement. But this year the spectacle seemed to pail after few days and he moved about as others did. He was always accompanied by either Major-General Sir Stanley Clarke or by Colonel Ponsonby, or by both.
 After his morning glasses the king, if the weather is fine, takes a short walk in the park and drives back to his hotel, where he breakfasts on the balcony of his sitting room. The rest of the morning is devoted to state affairs, then comes luncheon, a simple meal of boiled fish, white meat or chicken and one of those delicious compotes, without which any meal seems incomplete here, and a glass of either beer or white wine.
 Nearly every afternoon this year the king spent at the golf club, mo- toring up about half-past 3, for the links are high up on the moorland, where the air is splendid and the turf like velvet. He watched the various competitions. for two of which he gave the prizes himself. or else enjoyed a game of croquet on the lawn made expressly for him. Then he would ask two or three friends to take coffee with him. either in front of the pavilion or in the summer house by the eroqnet lawn, and later walk down home Caesar, his wire-haired terrier, aI- ways accompanied his master.
 The kings dinner, or what most would call poor supper, Is also A light meal. consisting of chicken or game and a compete, with one or two glasses of light Austrian wine. King Edward went several times ia the pretty little theater here. and often invited some friend to a seat in his box. Early to bed and early to rise Is the rule at Mar.enbad. and no one observes 1t more carefully than the king himself.