"Taking the Cure" at Vichy
T'O many people Vichy means nothing but |] the name of the Petairi Government. To many others it is but a name on a bottle of mineral water. But picture this small town in the heart of France, built down in a sunfilled valley on the bank of a river. All round it the hills rise-hills that are clad with vines and fruit trees. In the spring they are a mass of scents and blossoms. The mineral waters from the thermal springs have made the town. famous and have attracted people from all over the world. So in the " season," from May to October, Vichy is full of people " taking the cure." They made the small town a health resort of wealth and fashion, and the life that sprang up round the "mineral waters trade" was a gay one. The centre of the town is occupied by a large park with the casino, with its’ ballroom and theatre at one end of it and the large drinking hall at the other. People who went to Vichy to "take the waters" danced and ate rare delicacies prepared by some of the best chefs in the world, went to the casino, to the theatre, to the races, to concerts in the park, and then went to wash away their indigestion, gout and liver complaints in the drinking hall and the baths.("A Night in Vichy," by Mrs. Clare Prior, 2YA, June 30.) we
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 107, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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