The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26

zerand of the Pacific reserved public benefit ana
the government itself maintains exceedingly at'ac
1--WE health resort the famous geysers. Only DIS
ne" Zealand is about far south of the equator do
lta! IS north of the equator it's are precse
me reverse of ours with Christmas set in midsummer
mat turns the calendar of health resort like Rotorna
UPSIDE down; but health all the same ana 'ne
"earled makers of Newest England go back to town
1reshered and braced for another of business
politics and sport
Oriental people take 10 the occult as ducks water
1t is not surprising find Chinese and Japan
csc resol ting to marveworkng of sort and
another to drive away sickness. The degree Of educa-
ton reached by the individual makes difference
there just it does here. the whole world knows,
Japanese surgeons and trained nurses second to
none in the whole world in their practiced familiarity
with all the best modern methods of work On the other
hand. large constituency of common people cling to
curious supersttons of their garden of the
Shinto Temple of Ktano Tenjin at Kyoto, there is a
certain favorite image of bronze BULL which many be-
leve will cure all sorts of aches and pains if
rubs strokes the of it's body corresponding the
one where they ailng The treatment has at least
the merit of being simple and cheap and there
efhcacious. too
If you inclined to think conemptuously of pagan
granny in Japan, remember how people you your
SELF have known who rap wood whenever they mention
that they haven't had bad all winter! We do
average so far ahead Of the east after all.
The very oldest of the worlds for marvellous
is in India at Benares. Compared with the prestige
of that spot the left bank of the Ganges the most
timehonored resort in Europe America is mere
fad of to-day The great German scholar Max Muller
devoted to the study of oriental thought
clared: When Babylon upstart contending with
lDrdy Nneveh and the early Jewish heroes and kings
welding the Israelitish tribes into nation while
Athens hardly than name, and Rome not yet
thought off, hther toed streams of wistful pilgrims"
And to Benares they still toling, in this year
of 1908 India is considerably bigger than the
whole United States that the distances to be traversed
often hundreds of miles, but at the time when
this article is being written sick folk from part of
the land making SLOW painful journeys foot to
reach that particular place the Ganges where the
gods have cured many ang Swarms of pilgrims
constantly fill the riverside temples and line the CHATS
where bathers undress and dress again. Rich and poor
jose each other the bank. Clean and filthy stand
side by side waist deep in the ilsmelng water taking
up their hands, snuing it up their nostrils, in sub
Indifference to the fact that only ten feet
soaking in the holy water preparatory for
the funeral pyre and that dogs are wadng into
fetid bath, ndescribabe errands of their
British authorities that while great numbers
of lures claimed be worked at Benare the place
actually of the worst distributing centers Of
diseases in the whole empire.
The newest American resort for the healing of
kins ills u.s. most people have recently heard Protest
ant Episcopal church Boston, until lately regarded
stronghold of conservatism. The work is Intentionally
mhet to certain lines especially to functional troubles
like nervous prostration and hysterla.
Tie treatment combination of spiritual inspiration
| and encouragement with upto-date twentethcentury
medical SCIENCE and therefore differs fundamentally from
"Clrisan Science" which puts taboo the educated
physician announced that the work begun in Bos
ton taken and developed by certain churches
in Jew York. where the still higher tension at which
Maybe have here the establishment of new shrines
of aling even farreachng in their influence than
| thoA already famous Time will tell. ..-..lt.
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