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...April, as part of the present $4,000,- ooo investment to develop Saratoga as a State-owned park and health centre, the New York Legislature voted an additional million for a huge central drinking hall, pump room and bath house. The scheme was wangled by two fervent Saratogoers, Bernard Mannes Baruch and George Foster Peabody. Joseph Henry Freedlander was appointed architect...
Architect Freedlander lost no time, took the first boat to Europe. Accompanied by the Messrs. Baruch and Pierrepont Burt Noyes he toured the spas and pump houses of Europe: Vichy, Nauheim, Baden-Baden, Bath, Montecatini, taking notes. He returned last week, full of ideas. For their million dollars, New York cardiacs and taxpayers will have the largest pump house in the world. Because U. S. spas are backward in their understanding of Regime? diet, exercise, rest facilities to accompany a water cure?Architect Freedlander will concentrate on appurtenances...
...Prutti Bath, painter of the original, is willing to begin work as soon as possible. Professor Smyth is at present in Maine but will return within few days in order to enable Mrs. Bath to begin painting the portrait...
From British India will come 22 Hindus, 15 Moslems, two Sikhs, a Parsee, a Buddhist, a Christian. Socially the delegates range from the pale and paunchy Aga Khan, smart racehorse breeder and spiritual head of Ismaili Moslems (so holy that priests peddle his used bath water), to lowly Rio Bahadur-Rettamalle Sprinivasan Avargal, representative of Indian "untouchables." Sure defenders of the most conservative British position at the conference will be ten ruling princes of Indian native states. Well do they know that the existence of their realms, possibly their own existence, is dependent on Britain's maintaining a strong...
...common with Eve: whereas she was made from Adam's side, he was made a privy councillor by the side-piercing of George V. For 20 years he had been advancing at Court toward privy councillorship - Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1911), Companion of the Bath (1916), Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (1918), Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George (1919), Knight Commander of the Bath (1926). (He must wear the insignia of those orders at the Winnipeg medical convention.) Professionally he had been "made" long before. It is ten years since...