Letter No. 16From John Graham, at the Schweitzerkasenhof, Karlsbad, Austria, to his son, Pierrepont, at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.
Mr. Pierrepont has shown mild symptoms of an attack of society fever, and his father is administering some simple remedies.
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Karlsbad, October 6, 189—
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Dear Pierrepont: If you happen to run across Doc Titherington you’d better tell him to go into training, because I expect to be strong enough to lick him by the time I get back. Between that ten-day boat which he recommended and these Dutch doctors, I’m almost well and about broke. You don’t really have to take the baths here to get rid of your rheumatism—their bills scare it out of a fellow.
They tell me we had a pretty quiet trip across, and I’m not saying that we didn’t, because for
