A FURTHER insight into the lives of England's rich and famous a century ago is given by the Journal's London correspondent "Aurora" in her Ladies' Column for this week of 1902.

"From England there has been quite an exodus of travellers to the Continental health resorts who, now that the Coronation is again fixed, hope to take their cure and be back in time to go to Westminster Abbey.

"The usual time taken, as ordered by medical men, is three weeks, and the same authority lays it down dogmatically where the particular treatment is to be had which each patient requires.

The number of health resorts with baths or springs has greatly increased over the last 10 years.

An old guide to these Continental places is utterly worthless, for the very names of some of the most health-giving resorts do not even appear in the index nor on the map.

"In the South of France and some parts of Germany, the best springs were known to the old Romans, just as Bath was a famous place, but in the course of time places decayed, the faith in the waters died out and their reputations were no longer recognised.

No place has seen more of this oblivious passing over it than Hungary and some parts of Austria."