Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-04-30


ter extensively advertised here as the
liking Of the Moores, y all have their
special medicinal properties. Each one
OF these springs Is located within a
few feet of the main street with nicely
fitted up parlors in front, with music
during the entire day and evening. It
Is the every day custom with visitors
here to frequent one of these places In
the morning, buy a bag OF pop corn for
five cents, make themselves comfortable
In the easy chairs and drink ali the
water you want for five cents. In the
afternoon and evening take in some
other drinking parIor and go through
the same fhing-drinking water and
eating pop corn. 1t Is a very rare oe-
casion when one will not consume q
gallon OF water in an hour. On the
other side of the street, the East Noun
tain Springs, are all bot water and are
controlled by the United States govern
ment. Every public bath house and
every hotel with bath houses connected
that use the hot spring water pay the
government q tax OF $50 per year for
each tub. The government also regu-
lates the maximum price that can be
charged. which is fifty-five cents for q
single bath or ten dollars for a course Of
twenty-one baths and three dollars for
the attendants services for the course.
1t takes from an hour and a half to two
hours TO take a bath. The first thing
as oon as you get In the tub is to drink
a cup Of hot water, you then lay there
from ten to fifteen minutes, then re-
ceive q good s~crubbing with a coarse
bathing NIT ten minutes, then wrapped
up in sheets and laid out on a solid iron
white enameled cot for twenty to thirty
minutes, then a good rubbing down
with a coarse towel. The temperature
OF this room is ninety degrees. A trans
fer is then made to the cooling room at
eighty-ive degrees, where dry sheets
are supplied and rest there from halfto
three-quarters OF an hour. During all
this time you are being supplied with a
cup of hot water every five or ten min
utes, and between the baths and drink
ing the water 1t certainly opens every
pore In the body. Before leaving the
cooling room another good rubbing is
given, after which you put on your
bath robe and slippers, take the eleva-
tor to your room, get dressed and you
are ready to do full justice to breakfast.
Hot drinking water fountains and cold
water hydrants are located all over the
city. Every one carries their own in
dividual drinking cup. The parties
owning the springs mentioned above
along with the Mountain Valley Water
Co. do a big business supplying guests
at the hotels and boarding houses with
a gallon of water every morning to their
rooms at o cost of one dollar q week or
three dollars for four weeks. Taking
this In connection with what you con-
sumo in the drinking parlors it can
readily be seen this Is q hard drinking
community. By the way Arkansas
has voted to go dry aud after January
first next the only thing to be obtained
in the state will be water. These spring
waters are shipped all over the United
States. Every day / see a big truck
loaded with barrels Of water with a sign
on the side, Mountain Valley Water
for Philadelphia" The government
has a large hospital here for the soldiers
and sailors Ia the service who receive
free baths and board. Any honorably
discharged soldier or sailor, however,
can obtain the baths and board at the
nominal cost of forty cents a day. No
cases are admitted unless of a severe or
chronic nature and have failed to re-
spond to home treatment. The govern
meut also maintains free bath houses
here for any one not able to pay. II an
applicant is found to make a false state
ment as to their financial condition In
order to obtain the free battle, they are
subject to q fine of $25 OF thirty days IN
jail. Last year one hundred and fifty
i've thousand people received THESE 1ree
baths. There is an ostrich farm located
on the outskirts of the city to which an
admission Of twenty-five cents Isl
charged and 1t Is well worth 1t. Would
advise, however, unless You wish to dig
down in your jeans, to leave your wife
and daughters at home when taking in
this farm as it invariably means the
purchase of an ostrich feather right
there and then. Since arriving here /
have met people from twenty.eight dit
ferent states and Canada. Maine, Cali
fornia, Florida, Oklahoma, Nevada and
South Dakota, all are represented here,
with about every conceivable disease to
uuhich the human feah ID heir Won