The Ocala evening star., 1915-02-06

confined in a bath tub, even if it is
too different to appear in a test tube.
Be this as it may, all the eminent
authorities who have focused their
powerful minds on the elucidation of
the therapeutic phenomena daily pull
ed off way down in Arkansas agree
that "the radio activity of the waters
is an elusive irreducible element inca
pable of being localized and not sub
ject to precipitation by any known
solvent" This description clears ev-
erything up nicely and you know al
about it, just like you know that Tbs
Eve is an Irish festival which takes
place neither before nor after Christ
mas.
For the benefit of all beginners, It
is best to state right here and now
that government regulations permit
bathers to take out all the activity
they can, but they must leave the
radio behind for a nest egg.
Lying right between two mountains,
the town of Hot Springs has natural
advantages which other towns have
to acquire by the sweat of the get
together-committee of the board of
trade. The mountains are none of
your offish, p-your-distance sort,
necessiIating a carry-all three days
rations and a three days rest for a
friendly visit-they are close up and
coZy, leaving just room enough in the
middle for Central avenue and the
row of choice business lots on each
side hewn out of the solid rock. This
not only relieves visitors of the trouble
e asking their way about, but it
gives everybody a dead cinch on the
parades. You can't miss'em and as
soon as you hear the band playing
you take a stand on Central avenue
and you are bound to catch 'em a
coming or a-going and sometimes
both. Then the east mountain furn-
ishes background for bath house row
and the west mountain a natural back
ground for the shooting galleries. The
bath houses are the last cry in fan
cy fxings to eliminate microbes and
elevate plumbers bills, and the shoot
ing galleries must be seen to be be-
lieved. Thy extend from the sidewalk
to the top of the omuntain, giving lat
itude, longitude and prospective. The
whole side of the mountain directly in
front of you as you step up to the
gun counter is covered with proclaim
cups inverted and in clusters, which
are temptingly named for American
cities as noted by sign boards hung
out. When you break cup you win.
It IS a thrilling sight to behold the
sheriff and the city marshall take po-
sitions at the counter with repeat
ing rifles in hand, one crying "Ill take
Omaha!" the other "Salt Lake City
for mine!" and with terrible precision
proceed to shoot up those two large
commercial cities.
Since they ran the professional
gamblers out and closed the race
track down, there's no chance to "kill
a big one' in Hot Springs any more.
The best you can do it to listen to the
sporty "reminiscences of the "Time
Was" or the ''There Used To Be" CHOIR
US at the nearest bar, or go out to
the Alligator Farm, which is next to
the Ostrich Farm, and gather eggs
that will hatch out fashionable hand
bags or feather boaS that fetch the
highest prices. While you are rest
ing Alligator Joe will pass you some
thrilling heart throbs by recounting
several savage tales of alligator feroc-
ity he has witnessed while hunting
the voracious varmints in their tangl-
ed and tropical haunts among the
tall saw grass. You can also become