The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-17 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 16.
Her Majesty walked and drove yesterday, at-
tended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole.
Their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and
Princess Louise drove out.
His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen arrived all
Osborne yesterday.

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The Prince and Princess of Wales

The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge last
evening.
Lieut.-Colonel Chatterton, of Coburg, Canada/
had the honour of submitting models of improve-
ments in railway carriages to the Prince of Wales
yesterday.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
was honoured by the presence of their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess of Wales at dinner last evening 3t,
Gloucester House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Cambridge, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset, arrived
early. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended 11
Major Teesdale and the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, arrived shorei
before eight, and were received by the Duke of Cambridge
and Colonel the Hon. Jas. Macdonald. Among the guest;
invited to meet their royal highnesses were the Earl °
Clarendon, Lord Colville, and Colonel the Hon. Percy
Fending. The Prince and Princess of Wales left at half"
past eleven on their return to Marlborough House.

THE PRINCE OF WALES AT TO

HAMIAM,—(This day).

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The Turkish Bath, 76, Jermyn-street.
This morning, at about half-past eleven, bii!
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales honoured with
his presence what we hesitate not to call at once the •
finest Bath in the World ! Meaning by this the
Hammam, otherwise the Turkish or, perhaps evell
more strictly speaking still, the Roman Bath, n°ll
some four years ago established upon a noble scale
upon a site in St. James's, the entrance to this hate
being at No. 76, Jermyn-street. A casual
passer-191
would hardlyimagine from the look of that entrance
that it led to anything at all in any way remarkable'
Certainly such afoot-passenger would form no notion
whatever of the spacious, lofty, and luxurious er
pearance presented to view by the interior. Gr°ss;
ing the threshold, however, passing through a vesti-
bule, descending a broad flight of steps, and pushing
aside for a moment, on either hand, curtains)
pended at an inner door-way, the visitor, or, let:,
say at once, the intending bather—sees before le;
there, at last, at a glance, the principal apartment clie
hall rather it should be termed, of a veritab
Hammam of The Turks. Lofty—lighted fro°l/.
above--a fountain tinkling in the centre of it"— the
noble hall of the Hammam is divided down ~
length of one-half of it (from the further extrete.7)
of it to the central point marked by the fountatibe
by an oblong swimming bath, through which
refreshed and reinvigorated bather, as the last an
the most delicious part of the process, makes ad
passage, before being swathed in Turkish cloths a
se
duly turbaned for a few last luxurious minutes' reP,°s
on one of the Divans, before donning his elawite
and emerging again into the streets. We have
here got to the end, however, before saying a ".„.
about the beginning. The very commeneemela"the
the bather's proceedings in passing between
curtains upon the threshold of the outer or c°v
011.13
• to
ing room (the great hall already described), Is ~
off his boots—to step (in his socks)
tition at that the entrance end of the hall--t° se A
one of the divans or raised recesses upon either h;
within which, having divested himself of his do
.17h
the Bather is cinctured with a chequered eln‘,..
across a lovircet
wound about the loins by one of the attendatute'r
Taking with him, loose in his hand, all°
_aa
cloth of the like material and appearance, to spr:
beneath him before lying down 11P°11 one °f
couches arranged around the inner Or shampooa
hall! The entrance to this inner hall is °tab
tained through swinging doors (also, like the °ll,
at
doors, very carefully curtained)—doors situate'
the furthest extremity of the outer or cooling r°°,lra
before particularised. Passing into the inner bal
the bather finds himself in a very dimly
soothing twilight, under a domed roof,
a_ti.
lighted, here and there, by arabesqued stars a
_Pror_
coloured glass, like so many suspended pattern; f
ee:n
kaleidoscope. The divans, here, instead oorrib, large
agreeable an'
roh
raised as in the outer hall, or cooling es, say.
heated
depressed. Reposing upon one of these coue:e
for half an hour's duration, in an atnaosP
attire o'
(not by vapour but by hot air) to a tellaPenr first of
125 degrees, the bather's skin, having be ooze--
all softened by the warmth, at last begins t° ea
at the outset very gradually, afterwards mor anio
more copiously—with perspiration. Accordnges, re-
own inclination, he can then, if he so pleas
cares
move into the middle hot room, or even if behaving
to do so into the hottest room—the formers °lees,
a temperature of 150, the latter of 1-70
ela of
Still streaming with perspiration—say at the b toot
an hour's repose in the heating-roes
sha
--the ooerSt
is then manipulated by one of le ira.•
upon the raised marble platform or estra The
mediately under the dome before described•
roes
softened epidermis pealing off, during this Pro the
of shampooing, in rolls or pellets unueor hany
pressure of the palms of the hands of the ea off
pooer ! As much dead matter being clear oiled
the skin in. this way sometimes as could be r le !
up into the size of a walnut or a crab'ePePen,
Having thus been shampooed, the bather is bie-
ducted by his shampooer into one of the sluicedW
floored washing-rooms, where, after being ftepid
plentifully all over with copper-bowls-full °tile or
water—bowls again and again replenished"— otever
face of the skin is yet further relieved of „, Di
dead matter may still be left upon it or witblupair'
being rubbed all over with a glove of ealnteer, the
Again sluiced abundantly with tepid we
bather is lathered from head to foot With Ilia&
white lather of Castile soap, the lather being
n 3
u creamily in a wooden bowel with a Curi°,lll Abia;
or horse-tail of palm-fibres. Completing
Lions (after this soaping) with copper-bovils.4o 111
ogx-'l,i
warm • water dashed over him, again an
'A ththea
delicious deluge--the bather—there all
the way (supposing this to be really his first
Bath) feeling himself to be clean for about thoetl,
time in his life—the bather, we sap, v/haccocci..
effectually cleansed, completes-,the process,
ingly as he may feel inclined to complete it, needle;
with either the cold douche, or the etiect
bath, or, best of all, for its invigorating e thissP:i
(while yet at his warmest) a cold plunge
rovinik
hot !) into the swimming tank. This same co 01
plunge into the swimming bath being really less de
the delightfullest part of it all—like nothing ress ti 3
cious, sometimes, than—how shall we efll3 pl'esl;
sensation ?—well, just drinking all over enose
ing at his leisure, after a temporary t
his drying-cloths in the cooling r° boat
bather leaves the Hammam, at the end d anocerai:
couple of hours—.feeling, for all the wort°laet
riiii;.
ingly, let us say, as he may happen ch
or much of himself—like a dwarf °r scot.to
giant refreshed ! Hail, rain, or 0016 00111
• I et
mist, or London fog—all's one to bun • rhe
defiance then, alike to wind or weather,
, or
/poi-
cough, or catarrh ! I,isa
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And it is this peerless Bath—tnet his 11
Roman Bath in its very perfection—the 0)01113,;
Highness the Prince of Wales has thisioyecl•
visited, and, we believe, thoroughly
oleo
few months ago 1
the Prince ),"'ithe s1c,1"10
.
may be remembered, availed himself 0
,aths
luxurious appliances at these very same one
ot
Hammam, in Jermyn-street, by-the-WaYv7
er the P
others, these very obvious advantages °t coot°
A$
of the Turkish Baths at Cairo, or a
roain)l°-
,
nople—that it (the Jermyn-street Ham ritirl'ei
it professes to be, but as the baths ion the
fro 01
not—without dirty water running °
roPP ,d
heavy moisture on the walls, platster dt of all io•0
the roofs, blundering pattens, or "%vast as We 13C
swarms of cockroaches. It is, ill fac Teri
in the O
already
jadyusctallsithedpilty,
thethe
finest
nTuerek:si3h Turkish Bath at r !