After the frugal repast of coffee and bread has been disposed of, a novel or the newspaper serves to wile away an hour or so, and then the all-important time for bathing is at hand. The baths are of all kinds here, and are made of mineral water or simple water, according to the fancy of the patient or the prescription of the “Bad-artzt” (as the local practitioners are called). Both before and after the bath the patient scrupulously observes the directions of Hippocrates, and is careful to keep both body and mind in a state of complete rest, so that sufficient power may be left to thoroughly digest the mid-day meal, which the English call luncheon and the Germans dinner. With those who are wise this meal is as simple as it can be made, and consists of a portion of braised or stewed meat, vegetable, and some simple farinaceous pudding. As for wine, half a bottle of weak Rhenish or Moselle is all that is allowed; visitors being especially warned to avoid even the stronger of the Rhenish wines, such as Rüdesheimer or Steinberger, vintages, towards which those English who have well-filled pockets are very apt to gravitate. In the middle of the day the Germans habitually take their heartiest meal, and towards one o’clock a stream sets in the direction of the ‘Adler’ or the ‘König Wilhelm,’ where possibly the same sixty or eighty persons meet day after day at the table d’hôte. These repasts are often regulated by the advice of the local physicians, and one great advantage of patronising them lies in the fact that it is impossible to get viands which are at all difficult of digestion, or which are likely to disagree with the waters. After dinner comes an open-air concert beneath the trees, in the garden of the Cur-haus, and the process of digestion is allowed to complete itself in the fresh air, while the ears are tickled by the sound of first-rate music. For those who wish to read, the salons of the Cur-haus are always open, and every journal of note which is published in San Francisco or St. Petersburg, or any of the intermediate cities, is freely placed at the disposal of the guests. When we say freely placed we mean freely to those who pay the “Cure tax,” a small sum which is levied from all who come to participate in the enjoyments which are provided by the Badstadters for their guests.