each glass;” and one may see hundreds, who, watch in hand, carry out their directions to the letter. He who frequents the springs regularly will soon recognise that, morning after morning, the same people arrive at the same time, consume the ordained number of glasses and disappear. The majority of these, it must be confessed, do not appear to be very ill, although here and there may be seen some whose faces bear evidence of disease, whose limbs are crippled with gout or rheumatism, and who accomplish the morning promenade with the aid of sticks or crutches, or, in place of walking, perform a cruise upon wheels in an invalid chair. Badstadt is above all things a pleasant place, and everything has been done that money can accomplish to charm the senses and make life agreeable. The notables of society are its chief patrons, and there can be no doubt that the majority of the visitors come here for the season, strange as it may seem, that they may meet the same persons that they have been meeting earlier in the year in the “Row,” upon the lawn at Goodwood, or in the salons of Paris. “Good Society,” by which term we mean those wealthy and noble individuals who prefer an artificial to a natural existence, annually makes itself ill by attending too assiduously to its duties. Having risen from its bed some eight hours later than the sun; having dined largely every night on a mixture of all that is rich and unwholesome; and having freely partaken with its meals of all manner of liquids other than water; having danced night after night in rooms reeking of androsmia (which is polite Greek for the “smell of humanity”), and rendered stifling by wax lights or gas; having retired to bed just before sunrise, and, in short, having shown an unaccountable dislike for the light of heaven, and an equally unaccountable preference for those wretched and poisonous substitutes which our dark northern latitudes have rendered necessary, Society takes itself to Badstadt to try the experiment of undoing all the mischief which has been brought about by its own folly. The morning promenade is an integral and most important factor in the Badstadt cure; and the potations of salt water have not only a cleansing and “alterative” effect, but they damp the appetite a little, and help to prevent Society from taking too much food. The Badstadt breakfasts are very simple repasts; one cup of coffee and delicious bread, butter is not allowed except to a favoured few who can find some good excuse for being treated exceptionally; eggs are a luxury which the local doctors regard with manifest dislike; and as for the chops, devilled kidneys, fried bacon, bits of fish, cold grouse, dabs of marmalade, and other “necessaries,” which Society takes at home, they are not to be thought of.