River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-06-25

zerand of the Pacific is reserved for public benefit ana
the government itself maintains an exceedingly aOVi
tive health resort the famous geysers ohis
New Zealand is about as far south OF the equo io1~
Italy is north equator are preclsels
the reverse of ours with Christmas set in mldsunne
That turns calendar health resort like Rotorna
upside down; but health comes, all the same ana tn
wearied makers of Newest England go back 10 Town
reshened and braced up for another year OF business
politics and sport.
Oriental people take to the ducks to water
It is not surprising find lowercass Chinese and Japan
resorting marvelwong centers Of one sort ana
another to drive away sickness The degree Oh educa
ton reached by the individual makes great dHerence
there, just it does here. As the whole world Knows
Japanese surgeons and trained are second 10
in the whole world in their practiced familiarity
with all the best modern methods of work On the otne
hand. large constituency of common people CHING TO
curious supersttions of their In the garden OF the
Shinto Temple of Kitano Tenjin at Kyoto there is
certain favorite image of bronze bull which many be-
ieve will all sorts of aches and pains if person
rbs strokes the part of it's body corresponding to the
where they ailng 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
eficacious. too.
If you are inclined to think contemptuously pagan
granny in Japan, remember how many people you your
self have who rap wood whenever they mention
that they haven't had bad cold all winter! We do not
average so far ahead Of the east after all.
The very Oldest the worlds resorts for marvellous
cures is in India Compared with the prestige
of that spot on of the the most
tme-honored resort in Europe or America is mere
devoted years the study Of oriental thought once de-
cIared "When Babylon upstart, contendng WIN
ordly Nineveh and the early Jewish heroes and kings
were welding the Israeltsh tribes into nation Whlle
Athens was hardly than name and Rome not yet
thought Of hither toiled streams of Wisttul pilgrims.
And to Benares they still toing even IN ths year
Of grace 1908 India is considerably bigger than the
whole United States that the distances to be ravesed
are often hundreds miles, but at the very time when
this article being written sick folk from every part OF
making slow, painful journeys on foot 10
reach that particular place the Gauges where the
gods have cured so many aing ones SWarms or pilgrims
constantly fill the riverside temples and line the CHATS
where undress and dress again Rich and poor
iostle each the bank. Clean and filthy stand
side by side deep in the ismeing water taking
If up in hands, snufng it up their nosris In sub
lime Indifference to the fact that only ten feet away
cornse is soaking the holy water preparatory for
the funeral pyre and that NANCY dogs wading into
the same BATH understandable errands of their
own British authorities that, while great numbers
&c cures are claimed worked at Benares the place
ia actually one the worst distributing centers of
diseases in the whole empire
The newest American for the healing of man
kinds ills is as most people have recently heard Protest
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 nervous prostration and hysteria.
THE treatment combination of spiritual inspiration
and announcement with uptodate notwithstanding
medical science therefore differs fundamentally from
Ctristian Science" which puts taboo the educated
bvscian It is that the work begun in Bos-
m is to be taken up and developed by certain churches
N New York where the still higher tension at which
Mavbe we have here the establishment OF new shrnes
IF healing even fareachng in their influence than
those aireauy lS E. g. MERRIAM