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26 July 1908 — Carlsbad | |
Sunday. 26th [July 1908]. We went out at 7.25 to drink the waters & then I went to do the Exercises at the Kaiserbad. I had only those for the one leg & the left arm. The directress of it is a very pleasant woman Fraulein Hagen & she showed me wh machines I had to work. The nos are on the machines & they are written on to a paper for directing one. After lunch we had a visit from Mrs Bulkeley Johnson a friend of Bee Eliots– Young tall & good looking—she kindly invited us to tea the next day & another she took us up the funicular railway made by Lord Westbury to Helenenberg & gave us tea & we met Lord & Lady Beauclerk. Lady B. is a daughter of Ld Carnarvon—rather dull & prim. She also told us we ought to buy our own bread for breakfast & took us to the Posthof one day & another to Pupps’. She introduced us to Mr & Mrs & Miss Moore who are living up at the Jaegerhaus & we had tea up there several times & we used to meet Mr Moore in the early morning sadly drinking his doses of Sprudel. A day or two after our arrival here we came across Marchesa Cappelli née Hirsch & saw a good deal of her. She advised us to give up having our meals at Königsvilla & took us to a little restaurant called Hannover & the rest of our stay we invariably lunched & dined there—away from the noisy American ladies & in a far quieter society where the head waiter took the greatest care of us & the proprietor solemnly came round to each table & made his clients low bows. As we were on a strict diet we only wanted simple food well prepared & that we got there at a moderate price—& the evident treat was when it was put up in large letters “Heute abend warmes Schinken.” We also met Contessa Sormani Moretti née of Venice who had tea once with us & took a walk. She has been a beauty but is now getting old & has bad health but with all she is pleasant & has very pretty manners. Her 1st husband was Morosini & the present much admired Countess M. at Venice is her sons wife—but there is a great feud between them & the old ladies’ life is thereby much embittered. And so the days went quietly by—bathing drinking & doing Sandow exercises– The intervals being filled by reading & walking. I had brought with me the Life of Coke of Norfolk a delightful account of an old English gentleman & we read it aloud to each other. At the beginning of our stay the weather was hot & stormy but at the end it turned very chilly & it rained a great deal. I must confess that the cure tho’ wearisome has done my rheumatism a great deal of good but I think it is mostly owing to the Sandow exercises which has made muscle develope in my right leg. It now measures the same as the left & I can walk down stairs with great ease. We have taken a great deal of exercise since we came here both up & down hill & the walks in the woods are very pretty. I have never taken to much thought for my own health before & it has been a trial to me, but Eda & I have had a peaceful time together & there has been time to “possess my soul” & lead a regular life. We got rather tired of going out for every meal & of ordering it à la carte but we were sorry when we came to | |
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