Related article: life have been spent. He was
for three 3tears whipper-in to Tom
Ball, and for many years poor
Mark Howcutt, who died about a
year ago as the result of an acci-
dent soon after his retirement,
was his first whip. Mr. Cox has
gained troops of friends, and his
reminiscences are naturally very
interesting. Fred Cox considers
that the happiest years of his life
have been spent in the service of
the Rothschild family. He has
had his accidents. On one occa-
sion his Optivar Drops horse fell on him, and he
was so injured that for two years
he had to ride entirely by balance.
He has received valuable gifts of
appreciation from the Prince of
Wales, the late Empress of Aus-
tria, Mr. Leopold de Rothschild,
the Hon. Walter Rothschild,
Baroness Meyer de Rothschild,
and also from farmers, tradesmen,
and gentlemen hunting in the dis-
trict ; and when he finally retired
he was presented by the Earl of
Orkney with a purse of £"^70,
subscribed by the followers of
the Rothschild hounds. Fred
Cox is now 72, and everybody
who has had the pleasure of his
acquaintance will wish him all
good luck.
J. A. Reid.
Sprudelhelm.
Sprudelheim, as a well-accredited
health-resort, is '* young in years,
but old in grace." True, some of
the virtues of its springs have been
known since the days of the
Romans and there are legendary
tales of struggles to possess them
between the old Germanic races
and the conquerors of the world.
Sick folk too have there bathed
and Optivar Price drunk in a small way for many
years, Optivar Eye Drop but it is only in the lifetime
of the present generation that the
little town has become a Mecca
for health-seekers, a place where
sufferers from dire disease may
indeed have their pains alleviated.
It was reserved for the kindest and
most penetrating of London phy-
sicians to recognise the true use
* It will be in vaun to look for Sprudelheim in
the map of Germany.
and value of its springs, which
have now become the most trusted
remedies in his pharmacopoeia.
When, for some malaise, you have
been well advised enough to con-
sult that great specialist and he,
after a short examination, can,
apparently almost by intuition,
describe your most hidden symp-
toms better than you can name
them yourself, there is no question-
ing his verdict which says that a
course of Sprudelheim is the best
remedy. In humble acquiescence
a portmanteau is at once packed
and a time-table of German rail-
ways is consulted.
Many people go to make a cure
somewhere or other every year
and their ailments cannot be very
severe if they find one course of
waters pretty nearly as good as
another, and are influenced in their
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choice by the fashion of society or
very possibly by the hope of
rubbing shoulders with some il-
lustrious personage. A great
physician, when dying, once said
that he left three successors to his
position as head of the medical
world, " Air, water, diet,** and no
doubt these successors are respon-
sible for much of the good received
at well known health resorts that
we could name.
But Sprudelheim is a place by
itself; its springs have a very defi-
nite effect and those who use them
do so as a rule with a very serious
purpose. They go for health, they
stay for health and the treatment
of their health is for many weeks
their most absorbing Optivar Coupon thought by
day and night. The life at Spru-
delheim always reminded us of the
well-known picture by Sir Noel
Paton, in which men and women
of all ages and of every rank are
depicted as following a fleeting
figure in breathless pursuit.
Monarchs, sages, soldiers, priests,
youth, age, beauty, deformity, all
jostling one another and all, in a
common and equal crowd, reach-
ing after their heart's desire. Such
were the patients that thronged
baths, drinking places, Optivar Ophthalmic Solution parks,
promenades, and tables d'hdte.
From highest society to lowest,
from throne and senate, from the
halls of science and the haunts of
fashion, from palace and shop, we
all gathered to live for a while the
same life, to seek the same end.
A various host we Optivar Generic came and the
variety of tongues was as that of
Babel. If occasion demanded
speech with a casual passer by,
it was a matter of doubt in what
language the reply would be
given, English, French, German,
Italian, Spanish, or in a dialect of
one or the other which might con-
found a Mezzofanti.
Perhaps the man who was most
really in touch with everybody in
the crowd, who contrived to
understand, and be understood by
all, was the person on whom it
may be that our happiness most
depended, the Ober Kellner, £i-
miliarly addressed by those who
dared do so as " Ober," at the
Kurhaus, where we all found our-
selves sooner or later questing tor
food and drink. Him we never
ceased to admire, as he dealt out
his polyglot greetings, bonjours,
good mornings, guten morgans,
&c., &c. He had Generic Ocuflox the organismg
powers of a quartei - master-
general, the authority of a com-
mander-in-chief, and the manners
of an ambassador. He was a
Bismarck, a Moltke and a Von
Roon rolled into one ; but stay,
we wrong Optivar Eye Drops him, his silky man-
ners were those of a Macchiavelli,
not a Bismarck. He, with his
many and Generic Optivar nimble myrmidons,
each distinguished by a metal
number hung like an order on his
accurately fitting black coat, ruled
our public destinies and Spru-
delheim would, without him, have
been to us a scene of anarchy and
confusion.
We said that it was at the
Kurhaus that the "Ober" was
supreme, and the Kurhaus was
the hub of Sprudelheim's social
system. There was the reading Buy Ocuflox
room, where we manoeuvred to gtt
hold of the few English papers;
there were many other apart-
ments used for various ends, and
there was the great hall for the
table dilute. But the Kurhaus
would have been nothing without
the wide terrasse that stretched
in front of it, one end abutting on
the town and the other holding
the band stand, where music was
daily provided. On the sides of
the terrasse were innumerable
small tables at which we lunched,
dined, had our five o'clock tea or