Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1910 — The Mecca of the Fat. [ARTICLE]

The Mecca of the Fat.

Marienbad 1b a place of special interest to English people, for King Eldward had deserted Homburg, where for so many years he did his summer cure, and every August saw him Installed. in the Church square at Marienbad and prepared to follow out the somewhat severe regime of the place. Twenty years ago this famous watering place was scarcely known to foreign people, although it is nearly a century since it was visited by so great a man as Goethe. The springs are owned by the Abbey of TepL a large monastery some miles away, and the good brothers evidently did not understand the art of advertisement, for the place remained practically unknown outside Germanspeaking countries until recent times. But doctors began to find out hojr useful its waters were to the man who loved his dinner and to the lady whose figure bad lost its lines, and nowadays it has become the Mecca aC the fat, Wide World Magaaiast