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 AT THE APPETITE CURE

men of civilian quality; in the other one a dozen generals and ambassadors. One may live in Vienna many months and not hear of this place ; but having once heard of it and sampled it the sampler will afterward infest it.

However, this is all incidental a mere passing note of gratitude for blessings received it has nothing to do with my subject. My subject is health resorts. All unhealthy people ought to domicile themselves in Vienna, and use that as a base, making flights from time to time to the outlying resorts, according to need. A flight to Marien- bad to get rid of fat; a flight to Carlsbad to get rid of rheumatism; a flight to Kaltenleutgeben to take the water cure and get rid of the rest of the diseases. It is all so handy. You can stand in Vienna and toss a biscuit into Kaltenleutgeben, with a twelve-inch gun. You can run out thither at any time of the day; you go by the phenom enally slow trains, and yet inside of an hour you have exchanged the glare and swelter of the city for wooded hills, and shady forest paths, and soft, cool airs, and the music of birds, and the repose and peace of paradise.

And there are plenty of other health resorts at your service and convenient to get at from Vienna; charming places, all of them; Vienna sits in the center of a beautiful world of mountains with now and then a lake and forests; in fact, no other city is SO fortunately situated.

There are abundance of health resorts, as I have said, Among them this place Hochberghaus. It

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