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belief is not easy in such waters ; but a certain fountain of strength 

 when rightly chosen and rightly used. The clientele of Luxeuil is 

 mostly composed of women and of young girls who are suffering from 

 one, or more than one, of the protean forms of anaemia. I speak from 

 my own observation when I say that relief is certain in cases of this 

 nature, and that cure is frequent. 



But the caution can not be too often repeated that cure or even 

 relief, at Luxeuil, or at any other mineral spring, can only be expected 

 when the right patient goes to the right spring. I would not send a 

 scrofulous patient, for instance, to Luxeuil ; Salins is the place for 

 him, and for the cure of the particular form of anaemia from which 

 he suffers. Even among the cases of nervous anaemia, with the result- 

 ing train of special symptoms to which I have alluded, there are some 

 that should seek more strongly tonic waters than those of Luxeuil. 

 If the patient will have himself rightly directed, by competent medi- 

 cal advice, to the springs that he requires, and if then he will go to 

 these and no other, and there take the local treatment that he requires 

 from the local physician as at Luxeuil, from the highly accomplished 

 Dr. Champouillon, or from either of his resident colleagues, Drs. Gau- 

 thier, Bertrand, or Paris he will not regret the passing of three weeks 

 in this health-giving place. I should add that the society is mostly 

 French ; and that the guest has to choose between furnished apart- 

 ments, which are very comfortable and moderate in price, and the 

 various hotels of the place. I found the Hotel des Thermes comfort- 

 able, clean, and rejoicing in a pretty court-yard, where the birds sang 

 all the morning ; and it is a pleasure to record, though in a language 

 that she does not know, and in words which she will probably never 

 see, the courtesy with which the hostess of that hotel welcomed the 

 present writer during his sojourn, last August, in the pleasant town of 

 Luxeuil. 



3. Bussang, a little to the east of Luxeuil, is the last French station 

 toward the new Alsatian frontier. It is a quiet place, in the heart of 

 beautiful mountains, which tower on every side ; in the green valley 

 below the establishment the Moselle slips quietly seaward from its 

 sources in the Col de Bussang, near at hand. The mountain itself is 

 pierced by a long tunnel, emerging from the eastward end of which 

 you come suddenly upon the reft provinces, and see the uniform of the 

 German forest-guards upon the highway. 



The hotel stands alone upon a beautiful hill-side, a mile away from 

 the ancient village ; it is at an elevation of 2,188 feet above sea-level, 

 in the very heart of the mountains ; and, from every window of the 

 large, quiet, clean, new building, the views are exquisite. The hill- 

 slope that sweeps far upward behind it is a mountain-pasture or Alp, 

 where shepherd-boys tend the cattle throughout the cool summer 

 nights. There is a Swiss air about the place : the scenery, if less 

 grand than that of the French and Swiss Jura, is very beautiful ; and 

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