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 judicious. It is not usual to bathe daily; many bathe two days following, then skip one day; generally it is best to take a bath every other day; for weak persons bathing twice or even once a week will be found sufficient. Either mineral water alone, or two parts of mineral and one part of common water, are taken for a bath, and this latter proportion is in no way calculated to diminish its action. There is no difference in the action of the waters in the different bathing establishments, and people bathe with the same effect in the Curhaus, in the Sprudelgebäude (Sprudel building), in the bath rooms opposite the Mühlbrunn (the so-called Mühlbrunn baths), or in the Neubad. The price for a bath in the City bathing establishments is, for a first-class saloon bath, 1 fl. 50 kr. in the morning or afternoon; for a second-class bath, morning 1 fl., afternoon 70 kr.; for the use of a bathing-mantle, 20 kr.; of a sheet, 10 kr.; of a towel, 4 kr.; for warming the linen, 10 kr. In the common bath of the Curhaus the price is 5 kr. for each person. The Curhaus contains, besides the mineral water bath, all the necessary contrivances for the Russian vapour bath, with cold douche, price for the vapour bath, till 1, 1 fl. 30 kr.; for the cold douche, 60 kr.; for the mud bath, with 6 cubic feet of mud, 2 fl.; with 5 cubic feet of mud, 2 fl. 30 kr.; with 6 cubic feet of mud, *