Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1910-06-23

LAceiSloT Springs, MO, June
"a. Dear folks: We arrived
here safe and sound at ten o.
clock Monday morning along
with a hundred other patients
for the Springs and next to Mo
Valley we think this is the
grandest place in the world.
There are more hotels here to
the square inch than any place
we have ever seen every other
door is a hotel and the buildings
in between are drinking places.
The streets are about Z as
wide as those in Mo Valley and
there isn't straight street in
the town that we have found
yet. This doesn't apply to the
people as they are as square
and honest bunch as you
would want we imagined it
would cost 25c to change your
mind but everything is very
reasonable. Most of our pur-
chases are made with pennies,
water is lc per glass or lOc per-
gallon. The first day we we're
here we drank Ia glasses of
Sulphur Saline water and were
just commencing to get swelled
up over the fact when another
patient here told US he drank
about thirty glasses a day.
There are several different
water stations in town and ev-
cry one has a different water
for sale. On the door of each
place is printed what ailments
the water is good for. Seats
are built around each of these
places and it is not an uncom-
mon sight to see crowd around
each of these places at six o.
clock in the morning drinking
five or six glasses of water be-
fore breakfast. The Sulpher
Saline water seems to be the
most popular My wife, the
second day we were here got
quite an economical streak on
and induced me to buy one of
the gallon jugs with little
handle on it which are for sale
at every drug store, ! carried
The Jug to one of the water
stations, had it filled and was
going TO sneak down some back
alley to the hotel With it but
when saw about ninty nine
other men carrying Jug, | felt
better. There are several diff
erent bath houses here but only
one of them seems to do any
business. The baths are ST. 90
each or six for five dollars.
Mud baths from 81. to SD.
Some of the patients you
meet in the bath house are in
terrible shape from rheumatism
some are so bad they stay there
day and night. The attendants
are big robust men and they
surely understand their bust
ness. A big Swedish man gave
me my first bath and | though,
If | got out alive | would take
the first train home but when |
got out ! felt so good that Pm
going back this afternoon and
take a more severe bath. /
will give you a brief description
OF how they give you bath;
first you are put in a tub OF
hot mineral water as hot as you
can stand and scrubbed with a
very coarse brush. q thought
he was using sandpaper on
me the first time) After a.
bout 10 minutes you are put on
q marble slab and rubbed with
salt (Another very pleasant
past tlme). Next you are put
under hot shower bath
Tor about 10 minutes. You are
then put to bed for an hour
with hot packs around you. /
parsplred six gallons the first
10 minutes. You are then taken
to the massage table where
they pound you for forty-fve
minutes. They first use oil
then witch-hazel and then
alcohol and last the electric vi
orator. BY this time | was :
Very thankful when the attend
ant said chat will be all for TO- /
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