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finished you can stroll into the Park till 10-45, when innumer- 
able bells summon all to Table d’hote breakfast in the various 
hotels. 
The afternoon till 4 p.m. is passed variously, in some of the 
charming mountain walks, or a visit to the Casino for coffee and 
a smoke, (with the English and Foreign papers in the upper 
rooms fox subscribers), or a ride or drive. 
By-the-bye, the rides and drives have to be bargained for in 
the square every morning, and fluctuate immensely in price, as 
the demand is likely to be greater or less. A donkey for 7fes. 
per day, a horse about 10fes, and a 2-horse carriage anything up 
to 50fes. including the driver ; are about the rates. ‘This latter is 
for a long day’s drive. 
At 4 p.m. you take a warm foot bath at the Etablissement. 
Two baths side by side, are sunk in the floor in each room. You 
join a stranger. Each patient does not get fresh water, but the 
water is constantly flowing very slowly, and a large wooden 
paddle is supplied, to enable the more fastidious to skim it. 
You skim, and meditate. After a 6 minutes bath, another half 
glass of water down stairs ends one day’s treatment. A good 
table d’hote dinner at 5-45, with coffee at the Casino, and after 
this the Theatre, is the usual routine. The treatment does not 
exceed three weeks, but this appears long enough to all bathers, for 
though the country is interesting, the four hours in the afternoon 
do not permit of distant excursions ; the shorter ones have been 
done, and the constant succession of warm and hot water treat- 
ment in varying forms, produces a physical weakness, to which 
there is no tonic but the air. So great is this lassitude that 
after the first half of the treatment, patients little incline to 
do more than stroll and rest. The climate varies with great 
rapidity. Visitors should have some very warm clothing, for 
though hot one day, it may be abominably cold the next. Never 
to go out after dinner without a muffler over the mouth and 
throat, is one of the most necessary things to remember. 
Another is, never to take a bedroom on the ground floor. I 
have always stayed at the Hotel Sarciron Rainaldy. It is the 
largest, and Mr. Sarciron keeps to an arrangement. The bougies 
and service are charged 25fes. on leaving, and you are expected 
to distribute a somewhat similar sum in fees. The best Guide 
Book to the district is ‘‘ Le Mont-Dore,’ by P. Joanne, one of 
the Guides Diamants of Hachette, Paris. Itis written in French 
and is the cheapest. 
