Related article: probably best suits our invalid state, the golden harvest of the season which is reaped by the hotel keepers and other purveyors would be very Buy Principen Online considerably re- duced, and in doing this no doctor as a native of the place would care to be willingly instrumental. The most serious restraints that our doctor imposes are with regard to smoking and drinking and they point to moderation more than total abstinence. We have once or twice referred to our doctor, but, as he is about the most important and sought after personage in Sprudelheim, we must pay homage to him in ampler words. We use the ex- pression ** sought after ** in its fullest sense, for it is by no means easy to secure an interview with him. Of the hundreds of invalids that journey to Sprudelheim, by far the greatest number wish to place themselves under his care. His fame is European and all, royal, gentle and simple, ask for his attention. With so many demands upon his time he has reduced the art of giving short and pithy interviews to a science. His carriage appears at an hotel and he flits like a woodcock from apartment to apartment, giving to each patient the veriest minimum of consultation. Unlike a digni- fied English physician, whose manner is always leisurely how- ever hurried he may be, the German specialist has do breath to spare for anything but the most curt of sentences and the patient who thinks to gain a hearing for a long tale of symp- toms will be woefully mistaken. They tell of one old lady who embarked on such a tale and, during its progress, took her eyes off the doctor for a moment. When she raised them again he was gone and, glancing out of the window, she saw him feeling another pulse in a house on the opposite side of the street. That nobody can have any delicacy or reticence with a medical adviser is a maxim on which he con- sistently acts. A rap is heard at a bedroom door, possibly when the occupant is in the most neglige and meagre of costumes. There is no pause for permission to enter and in plunges the doctor who informs the scared dame *• Ah, that is just what I want." He at any rate is spared the Order Principen Online delay of preparation for the stethoscope. But this pre - occupation 'and hurry makes him very elusive, and he is apt to forget how essential it is to his patients* convenience, if not to their actual health, that they should see Purchase Principen Online him with some regularity. He never prescribes a course of treatment for more than two or three days and, if further advice is not then given, the course of baths and every- thing for which we are sacrificing^ time and money to be at Sprudel- heim, is at a standstill. The doctor has often to be shot flying. Oblivious that he has promised to call on somebody, he is seen mak- ing his way from house to house, and the forgotten one, either per- sonally or by deputy, waylays him. carries him off triumphantly and extracts from him, almost by forcet his words of wisdom- It is indeed one of the excitements of Spru- J 1899] SPRUDELHEIM. 339 delheim to secure a necessary meeting with the doctor, and to be successful in doing this with any regularity is a piece of the highest good fortune or the mark of a very distinguished position in the world. Our doctor's English, though fluent, expressive and for- cible (and how proud we should be if we could speak German as well) partakes sometimes of the idiom of his Fatherland. He gave his orders to an invalid, consulting him as to the drink which might be permitted, " You shall not drink beer, you shall not drink soda water, you shall drink nothing that will you outblow," and, being asked one day why he never appeared on the terrasse to enjoy the music and society, he said •* that can I not do — I have given direction to one man ' you shall not smoke,' and to another, ' you shall not drink beer,' and if I go on the terrasse, I shall find the one drinking beer and the other smoking a cigar, and, when they see me, they become each a red face. No. That can I not do." One more mot of his must Buy Cheap Principen not be forgotten. An English gentle- man, who had conscientiously gone through the regime of the cure, was told that he was now Order Principen quite well and that he might do what he liked. *• But I want to go home and shoot partridges." " Ah, the partridge, but I prefer the pheasant." *^ But pheasant shooting does not begin till October." ** Ah, then, you may shoot the partridge, but you shall not too quick after him run.". Nowhere in the world has the value of woodland been more thoroughly realised than in Ger- many. Its influence on climate has been proved over and over again, and the necessity, in a country where coal beds are few, for providing a national store of fuel is understood by a provident Government. In sundry Buy Principen German states the restrictions on forest cutting have been withdrawn at various periods with disastrous results, but now the restraining hand has been universally re- imposed, and n«t only are private owners prevented from felling trees promiscuously, but there is a special department of police whose duty it is to see to the tending, thinning and replanting of forests, and the science of arbori- culture is carried by these func- tionaries to the highest pitch of perfection. Purchase Principen Government has made large purchases of land and planted it, and the communal woodlands have everywhere been made objects of special care. Sprudelheim has not been back- ward in the matter and, besides its spacious parks and gardens, all the hilly slopes in its neigh- bourhood are clothed with forest. Through this paths have been cut, and one may wander for miles in the cool, broken twilight of the " Wald,'* enjoying the mystic beauty which is the keynote of so many Volkslieder. In truth, what the sea is to England, the forest is to continental peoples. There they can — «« . . . Mingle with the universe and feel