The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 29
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Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 29: November 1, 1894 But the great military roads of the empire were by no means confined to the rich country between the snowy Alps and the blue Mediterranean; they stretched away through forest and plain, across bounding river and smiling valley almost to the northern ocean, and from the headwaters of the Danube to the shores of the turbulent Atlantic. So also with their baths. Cleanliness must have been held in high esteem by this stout soldier empire; for not only in Rome, where senators and patricians might lave their tender, well-fed bodies in perfumed water rippling in costly marble or bejewelled pools, but also at the furthermost outposts of the empire, the public baths were as much a feature of their permanent settlement as were the fortifications of their camp. Thus, while we find crumbling Roman towers at Mayence and in Brittany, and Roman roads in Burgundy and the Black Forest, and Roman coins and silver plate in Hesse and even in Devonshire, we also find the well-preserved ruins of Roman baths in Paris, in many of the half-forgotten towns of Spain, in the fine old cathedral city of Treves, and in the beautiful little town which the artist has here depicted, Baden, in the Duchy of Baden and the Empire of Germany. It would have been very strange if the invaders, whose mighty military road through Germany may still be traced along the Black Forest, had overlooked the natural resources and beauty of this most typical of wateringplaces. It was almost in their direct way, for here were warm and medicinal springs grouped at a point that might be deemed the very entrance to that forest. They made a settlement, and added to their usual practice of bathing in the waters the now more popular practice of drinking them. Lo, there were health and vigor and appetite in both the inward and the outer use of the bubbling product of the springs! And though the world is nearly two thousand years older now than then, it has never ceaesd to appreciate, and has done very little to improve upon, the discovery those rare old Roman wayfarers made. It would be tedious to readers of the Juvenile to be told all about the number of people and of churches and of jsoldiers that the ancient city contains. Its age ought to secure it against irreverent or dreary treatment; and yet there is a part of its career that, however discreditable, cannot be silently passed over. I refer to the era of gambling which onl a few years ago was brought to an end. Previously it had flourished unchecked, and made of the fair surroundings a veritable plague spot like Monte Carlo is today. Those were the days of Baden-Baden sgreat supremacy among the worlds wateringplaces. The fast set, the newly-rich, the purse-proud, the keen sharpers and their rich but dull victims each felt that life had not yielded all its pleasures until Baden-Baden had been visited and its vices witnessed and participated in. But public sentiment has been growing healthier within the last half century, and open gambling at the watering places is no more. Baden has gained in respect what it may have lost in popularity, and in credit what it may have lost in money. It is today probably the second in importance of wateringplaces in interior Europe, and its continued prosperity would seem to be assured by the excellence of its waters, the gentleness of its climate and the beauty of its suburbs and surrounding scenery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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