The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-03


H..r IN entire absence Of enter
.... I.. simple life rules. Early
.. .t. l yIrly TO rise Is the watch
word ' the "kur" taken at the
I,...'. BOB every walk of life are
represented In the throng that follows
... 1870. 'H the kurhaus. a President
o.. United states, Chief Justice
.T .. wife, Ambassadors, statesmen,
......rs flukcrs brokers, all divide
...r.. with prominent members of
., lad titled visitors from abroad.
s." have their pet theories as to the
.. .. diet. exercise and baths. Some
... ., Dee boiled OUT others prefer
.ug ''akcd,' some there are who
.-n '.. hottest water in their tubs
r sprays. douches and showers while
... others viii have 1t at an almost
~ temperature. The cabinet with it's
..... HE heat Is a favorite. while
..r, ur preference achieve the same
. =. the old fashioned and more
.I. .h.t room 1he sulphur water
... is popular with all. while mud
..- % mud imported from the Ger
DHu spas appeal to those who like to
.rk they are getting something diff
tr'ut
Women anxious to lose weight walk
u- ramp from five to ten miles daily
after meals, while their thin sisters and
Uu..hers. determined upon gaining a
Number II pounds in weight, walk be-
.re meals to stimulate appetite and
then take a restfu, sun bath afterward.
There are those who prefer the walk
ue o- tramping. Others think thirty
.N holes Of golf or repeated sets Of
hpr l.ap oh Ri 10 Of .
teen 10 thirty miles a day accom-
she's the hoped for results. During
t.c last year a new theory that has
worked wonders has been put into
daily practice. Some one insisted that
ausoug and one-stepping was really
delightful adjunct TO the "kur" and a
wears test has tended to strengthen
ta.,h N It.
Of course the ultimate results are the
same. The patients get the exercise,
1--we on a strict diet every day for
'Nree weeks and spend several hours
every day in the kurhaus, dividing time
H''ween the bath, the paramount fea-
are OF the cure. the Xander room, a
swim in the pool and in the rest rooms.
The pool. one of the largest in the
country, 100 by $50 feet, fed by natural
springs Of warm radio active sulphur
water, is the rendezvous for the ramp
,- riders, golfers and tennis players
when they return from their sports.
Here, seated at tables on the broad ter
race quaffing sulphur water, many
watch frequent games of poo or other
Wu.pr sports.
Shooting and hunting find many dew
o.eos among those arriving at this
time Of The year for the "kur.' The
~ Cabin at the foot of Sunnysde
Mountain, under the management of
John Stnlman, is the shooting box
whore all the sportsmen make their
uualquarters while grouse and pleas
.u' shooting and deer and wildcat
uniting.
The monotony OF a daily diet Of toast
Media, spinach and carrots and strict
.Iaerence to the rule OF drinking the
H'phur water only is occasionally
EHr.ed by excursions to the farm
Uses where old fashioned "befo' de
%" mammies fry chicken, bake spoon
read beat biscuit and turn wlffles.
Golfers tennis players and the other
,.yotees Of outdoor sports after play
up at the old spring or the radio
Halyheate spring on the way back to
..r hotel for goble.s of the water
which is served at the fountains by
ring maids in Tyrolean peasant cos
'Emc. They join Vhe general assem-
age about O'Clock in the spring
ftrm. where the sulphur water drink
rr thrDng drink the waters between
rlrathons of onestepping and fox
citing. These sulphur dansants'
.a the common meeting ground of the
..y
Those who attempt to drink the
n, mi
no ignore warnings to abstain from
linking anything else pay dearly fol
.r folly when they fall off the
tsuu." For a hundred years or more
.u greatest tribute that has ever beer
.'I the beloved old spring is hat Il
90 deadly enemy of those "off the
gou." Its objections are so strenu'
-'y felt by the poor novice who dire'
Experiment. Of mixing both that h'
I.E"r makes a second trial.
Although the winter season at th'
White sulphur Springs has an 9nnua
ronE all its own, comprising people
lp prefer the rough life when the all
crisp and the cry of the hounds !!
ard, it has an interesting side issue
arrivals, on their way south, come II
very day. En- route to Aiken, Pain
.aCh, Townsville or some one of I'M
Ntr lar south resorts, tney WISH u
%" in condition before making the sud
.'n change from the icy win'ry blast
& New York TO the luxury Of SUR
ithIng in summer weather in florida
President Wilson during his visit herr
'r the "kur" set criterion for thu
lriy riscrs. lie il probably the mos
.stnguishcd visitor who has ever beef
'Gnd pacing up and down inpatient.
fore the doors of the main restauran
IF the New Greenbrier Hotel, which ar
aoncd at 100 o'clock in the morning
waiting breakfast. A round Of tn
sixteen hole course was an invlgoratin
culinary 20 his daily visit to tn
.Irhaus.
Charles NJ. Schwab and John Hay
Hammond, who play golf often to
ether while taking their kur, max
'"qucnt trips to the Greenbrier Rive
trout fishing.
The Guvcrnor-elect and Mrs. Charlie
Whitman have been here seVera
mes for the baths and play golf an
.unig FrcoupntlV they Join thel