The Argosy — page 231: what you’re looking at

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At Gastein. 215 bath. My dear sir, allow me to congratulate you in the highest manner upon your wisdom and patience. Most men are in such a very great hurry that they jump into the bath immediately they arrive.” Full stop, and a change of tone. “You should not do this,” he continued em- phatically. ‘You should wait one day to rest, one day to become accustomed to the air; and the third day take the bath.” ‘* But,” I cried, “I am disappointed in the air. It had been reported as wonderful; pure and bracing. To all this it appears the exact opposite ; hot and unrefreshing.” GASTEIN : VIEW OF STRAUBINGER’S AND WATERFALL. ‘‘ This air of to-day is not the true Gastein climate,” returned the doctor. ‘‘ Never have I known it so hot as this. The reason is that for long we have had no rain. The amount of evaporation here is so great that without rain we cannot live. The air becomes dry; the ground parched ; nature languishes. When the rain comes then you will see and feel and breathe the true, health-giving air of Gastein.” He spoke in tones of such exultation, such convincing firmness raising his voice alittle with each sentence; ‘that it wasimpossible not to feel somewhat reassured. a | COMI1CEOOOKS.COR