MUD-BATHS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2929, 1 August 1911, Page 7

MUD-BATHS.

As many of our readers will know, mud-baths have proved to be of considerable value in the treatment of

certain cases. Everyone has heard of them ; comparatively, few have seen them. For the enlightenment of our

readers who have not seen them, we publish the accompanying illustrations. Oiir first sketch (which together with the other two is taken from the '"Sketch") shows;a primi-

tive method of' taking a mud-bath-bathing the feet in mud. No. 2Taking an all-over mud-bath. No. 3. Massage with oil after a mud-bath.

Travellers, like poets, are bom, not made ; and not many who purchase a Cook's ticket and a Baedeker are among the elect. But the really great travellers are not those who have sailed three times round the earth, crossed Equatorial Africa, or penetrated the innermost recesses of Thibet. Those who • accomplish such feats are explorers." They are allied to science. The real traveller, the satinterer proper, is more allied to art ; he is an artist in locality, a being specially created for response to the genius of pla'*e. He' may not go far away from his own home, but wherever he goes, when the mood is on him, he will, divine the unique quantities the "true;essence of of the locality in which he finds himself.-"Black and While. 1 '