St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-07-11

zerand of the Pacific is reserved for public benefit anu
the government itself maintains an exceedingly a'1
tive health resort the famous geysers ohly' %
New Zealand about as far south of the equator DIS
Italy is north of the equator its seasons are pleot
the reverse of ours, with Christmas set in mldsune
That turns the calendar of health resort IKE
upside down. but health comes all the same, and the
wearied makers of Newest England go back TO town
freshened and braced up for another year OF pusAh''
politics and sport
people take to the occult ducks to water
1t is not surprising lowercass Chinese and Japan
resorng to marveworkng centers of one sort ana
another to drive sickness The degree OF educa
ton reached by individual great difference
there just does here. AS the whole world knows
Japanese surgeons and trained are second to
in the whole their practiced familiarity
with all the best modern methods of work On the other
hand large constituency of common people cling to
curious superstons of their own In the garden of the
Shinto Temple of Kitano Teniin at Kyoto there is
certain favorte image of bronze bull which many be-
ieve will all aches pains if a person
rubs strokes the part Of its body coe bonding to the
where they ailing. The reame bit has at least
the merit of being simple and cheap land there
plenty of old in Kyoto ready to testify that is
efhcacous. too. - ST.
If you are inclined to think contemptuously of pagan
granny in Japan remember how many people you your
self have known who wood whenever they mention
that they haven't had bad cold all winter We do not
average far ahead of the east, after ALL
The very oldest of the worlds resorts for marvellous
is in India at Benares Compared with the prestige
of that spot the left bank of Ganges the most
timehonored resort in Europe America is a mere
fad Of to-day The great German scholar MU who
devoted to the study of oriental thought de-
clared: When Babylon upstart contending with
lordly Nineveh and the early Jewish heroes and kings
welding the Israeltsh tribes into nation, while
Athens was hardly than name and Rome not yet
thought of, hher toiled streams of wisful pilgrims
And Benares they still toing in this
of 1908 India is considerably bigger than the
whole United States that the to be rayersed
often hundreds of miles, but all the very time when
this article is being written sick f from every part OF
the land making slow, painfully Journeys on foot to
reach that particular place THE Gauges where the
gods have cured many ailing ones SWarms OF pilgrims
constantly fill the riverside temples and line the CHATS
where bahers undress dress again Rich and poor
jostle each other on the bank Clean and filthy stand
side by side deep in the isTneltng water, taking
it their hands, snung their nostrlis IN sub
lime Indifference the fact that only ten feet away
corpse soaking in holy water preparatory for
the funeral pyre and that dogs wading into
the same fetid BATH ndescrbable errands OF their
own British authorities that, while great numbers
claimed to be worked at Benares, the place
is actually one of worst distributing centers Of
diseases in the whole empire
The newest American resort for the Dealing Of man
kinds ills is as most people have recently heard Protest
ant EpscopaI church Boston, until lately regarded
stronghold Of conservatism. The work is Intentionally
limited to certain lines especially to functional troubles
| like nervous prostration and hystefla
The treatment is combination Of spiritual inspiration
and announcement with up-todate notwithstanding
medical science and therefore differs fundamentally from
Christian science which puts taboo the educated
nhysician It announced that the WORK begun in Bos-
on is tn he taken up and developed bf certain churches
in New York where the still higher tension at which
neona live makes disorders prevalent
Maybe we have here the establishment of new shrnes
of healing even areaching in their influence than
| +hosa already famous. Time will tell.
| e. o. MERRIAM,