Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-01

chants and manufacturers and members
of the nobility of Europe spend their sum.
mers and reduce their dimensions Ihat
is the chief object of going to Marienbad'
Resort Of King Edward.
The late King Edward VII of England
did more than any one else to advertise
Marienbad, for he was high liver and
like his esteemed mother had a tendency
to weight. He went there every season
for three or four weeks. and always occu-
pied the same room at one Of the principal
hotels, where balcony, built especially
for him, Is the first thing pointed out to
new arrivals. You can see his rooms II
you wish to. They are seldom occupied,
because the proprietor of the hotel con.
siders them sacred. None but guests of
the Hottest rank and reputation are allow
ed to sleep in the kings bed. or sit in
the kings chair. or eat In the KING
private dining room. The man who used
to massage his sacred person IF one OF
the nota biiities of Marienbad: the appara-
tus which he used at the gymnasiums IS
an object of veneration, and his goif
sticks are hung up in conspicuous place
in the h Many pe e6pv coS
have an opportunity to bask In the sun
shine of the royal presence go elsewhere
now. which is serious financial loss TO
the community. Multitudes Of sycophants
Marienbad and then to Homburg. but
have never been able to find out what
good it did them.
An Expensive Place.
A visitor to Marienbad would naturally
expect to meet crowds of fat people on
the streets. but there do not seem to be
as many there as at Carlsbad. The aver
age individual appears to be OF norman
weight and girth. The visitors are better
dressed as a rule. and show greater evil
dences Of prosperity than the habi.ues OF
Carlsbad. 1t Is only people OF meas VINO
can afford to pay the hotel bills and other
expenses which attend the cure. Az
| Ca. lsbad all one has to do is to drink
the water, exercise and diet, and pay the
cure tax, but at MarieLbad patient
must patron'ze the gymnasiums and the
mechanical exercising apparatus and all
that sort of thing. which costs more than
| his board. The regimen is very much
| the same as that OF Carlsbad. The only
way to reduce the tissues OF the human Ina
body is by dieting and exertion; Hence
people who go to Marienbad starve
themselves and get as tired as they can
every day. They keep doing something
all the time and. while they m'ght ao
the same things at home, and derive the
same benefits. IL they made the effo-t.
there Is an inspiration and moral encour-
agement in the knowledge that every
body else in town is eating the sane
kind of food and going through the same
kind of mechanical movements. taxing
| the same kind Of baths and gong to ed
at the same hour.
| The bill Of fare. as provided at an tIe
hotels and restaurants OF MarienDao' eA-
cludes everything that contains starch or
sugar. and everything that makes fat'
and is limited to starchless bread sWei,
bach. cold ham, boiled beef am. steweo
fruits, with coffee and tea for beverages'
| and the medicinal waters, OF course. EV-
erybody gets up at o'clock in the morn
| ing. drinks three or four glasses Of water
| and exc. cises like q trotting horse for an
hour or two; then it is proper to drink
| cup OF coffee and eat q cnust OF bread
Massage and Exercise.
Next comes the gymnasium. where all
kinds Of apparatus are provided to exer-
else the muscles of the abdomen particu-
| iarly, and othe., parts Of the body gener-
ally. After a light dinner Of the edibies
| I have ment oned, the patient can rest a
little while and then have massage tr at
ment, which is rough and severe, because
| Il n intended to loosen the tissues fiom
| ehA muscles and melt the tallow that lies
under the skin and send both of through
| the sewe: Of the body.
| A great deal will be endured OF that
sort Of treatment by q woman who is
| uroud Of her figure and q man who Is
afraid Of apoplexy. The patient Is likely
| to be black and blue for the nrst week.
| but there Is nothing SO sublime In human
| experience as to suffer to be strong.
| Besides the exercise at the gymnasium.
| n, q ssa re syoif tennis climbing mountain