European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Cure blahs an Oriental Bridge above leads into the bad Homburg spa. Ri8"t, sunlight streams through the windows As two women relax beside the indoor Pool. By Don Tate staff writer therme Quot there was water. Warm. The source of a amps photos by l. Emmett Lewis or. German Winters a chilled out Napoleon reportedly groaned Are blah. A lot of germans sneezing by agree with his late Eminence. Indeed to escape such depressive maladies As Gray sky blues Low Cloud fever and the Liscomb ovulating one Day its cold one Day its warm Dearies the germans have Learned to escape to institutions of permanent warmth water Light and rejuvenation called spas. From Little everyday spas were born big multifaceted spas like the Taurus therme in bad Homburg a spa of spas. In Germany a refugee from the unreliable weather learns bad does t really mean bad like Lowdown bad or bad meat bad. It Means sort of Good bad like spa. You sense it even As you approach the Taurus therme in old bad Homb and the Dearies begin to fall off you like dead flies. By the time you be walked Down into a wooded recess and crossed Over the Little red Bridge you have stepped through the looking Glass into Japan. A rather heated up South seas looking Japan. All biological development with life giving and renewing Powers. When the body relaxes in water the soul also  interestingly and perhaps disconcertingly for modest american types who wander inside 3,000 of the 10,000 Square meters of Taurus therme Are for those who prefer to take the warmth the Waters and the contemplation a nature. Stripped to their freckles. In highly sophisticated Europe that sort of thing s no big fuss a tittering Bug eyed member of the great unwashed is reassured by a Cool highly sophisticated european named Siegfried. Building Taurus therme Cost about 70 million Marks says Siegfried Reddel the managing director who thinks its the finest spa concept in Germany Quot because it goes into Depths beyond Ordinary  he says they be built a spa with the same theme in Kassel and another is on the Way in Disseldorf. They be even built the first of three in Japan with the same concept the same philosophy. A so but what possible philosophy the refugee