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King Ferdinand, who recognises the tourist possibilities of his country, has lately encouraged the stocking of the Rhodope streams with trout, to offer another attraction to the visitor. To King Ferdinand's initiative also is due in a great measure the movement to develop the spas of Bulgaria. The mountains abound in medicinal springs of various kinds.
The chief spring discharges one hundred and twenty-eight gallons a minute. While a hundred years ago Bath was at the height of its celebrity, the German spas have since diverted part of the stream of visitors. It was at Bath that Pitt and Sheridan lived, but its most eccentric resident was William Beckford, the author of Vathek, who came to Bath from Fonthill, not far from Salisbury.
Madame Surville had long since quitted that town, devoting some years to the round of various mineral spas in vain hope of cure.
We have been back in New York only for the last two or three years." "It might have been on the cards that I should come across you in Europe," said John. "The beaten track is not very broad. How long have you been over?" "Only about six months," she replied. "We have been at one or another of the German Spas most of the time, as we went abroad for Mr.
Another thing just struck him as a by no means bad notion was he might have a gaze around on the spot to see about trying to make arrangements about a concert tour of summer music embracing the most prominent pleasure resorts, Margate with mixed bathing and firstrate hydros and spas, Eastbourne, Scarborough, Margate and so on, beautiful Bournemouth, the Channel islands and similar bijou spots, which might prove highly remunerative.
The German Spas, or watering-places, especially those of the first rank, seem to me to offer the best opportunities which a stranger can desire for the study of the German character, as, in its most unguarded moments, it presents itself to notice.
What I should like you to do is to take our patient north by slow stages; and I earnestly counsel a course of waters before the return to England is attempted." Thereupon, agreeable visions of festive toilettes and festive casinos flitting through Henrietta's mind, she named Homburg and other German spas of world-wide popularity. But at such ultra-fashionable resorts, as Dr.
She was trying so hard to calm herself that she did not think what she was doing. She only knew she must do or say something. "How many months will it be?" she said. "It is February now; March, April, May, June, July. Five months not quite five, perhaps. We may not be here then. Lady Throckmorton intends to visit the Spas during the summer."
Those pleasant spas our reigning passion Where learned Dons meet folks of fashion; Where each with each illustrious soul Familiar as in Charon's boat, All sorts of fame sit cheek-by-jowl, Pearls in that string the table d'hote! Where dames whom man has injured fly, To heal their wounds or to efface, them; While others, with the waters, try A course of flirting, just to brace them!
"The man" was before her, and she knew it. How? She could not have said. Had she been asked she would probably have replied: "My bones told me." "Oh," she said, after the look. "She's the type of old woman who is born and brought up in Brazil, and who, when she is faded, comes to European spas for her health. I have met many of her type at Aix and Baden Baden."
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