Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-04
The Turkish BBth-Jnterestins Description
of fhn Process of Bnlneation.

The Turkish BRth-Interesting Description
the Process of BulneatiOn.
A Philadelphia paper thus speaks of the
Turkish bath, lately established there, and
the process of bathing:
When you enter you are furnished with
mir of slippers. You are conducted to n
dressing-room, where you divest yourself of
your clothes, and aB apron is handed TO you
which you gird about your loins; then
sheet with which you drape Yourself after
which YOU are conducted into the bath room,
which bears some resemblance TO an oven
The walls and floor are of brick, and the
apartment is in the shape Of a truncated
oval. 1t stands adjacent to, and in front of
the swimming pool, from which it is sepa-
rated by q wall OF great thickness, built and
coated with hydraulic cement. 1t is a somber
place, set with ground glass windows, ad-
hitting what the French call mi jour. 1t is
well ventilated, and the air is necessarily
dry, the temperature being at times as
high as 1909 Fahrenheit, although it may
be regulated ''to suit customers" AS you
enter, you lay aside the sheet, aud when you
have been seated some seconds, every part Of
your skin begins TO be covered with a pro.
fuse perspiration. At first breathing is
little oppressed, but the sensation soon wears
awaY, and in o few moments you perspre
quite freely. Presently you are aware that
you arc in bath of your own making. In
drops-in streams--in rivers-it runs over
you; your hair is full of it. your face is
bathed, your limbs are inundated.
The 1000 009 pores said to ''ventilate the
human tTamen free themselves from the
bonds of long. unconscious imprisonment.
In fact, you are in a perspiration that would
SOAK the washing of whole boarding
house. And so you ait quietly communing
xuffh vi ,ranlf pn fhpEp rnaftprs until
70 d to go into the hot-room. The hot-room
Why, you have been sitting for half an hou
in q temperature of 1909, and now yol
ore going into the hot room Bat great i
The power ofhumau endurance. Your bod,
is now seasoned, and you walk into a room
where the temperature is 100, NOR
or less, without feeling in any way op
pressed And now the stream pourS ou
afresh. All around is dry, but you are lik
Gideou's fleece. The 100000 of pores ar
now all free, and are rejoicing in their free
dom. You thought yourself cleanly per
son, because you have taken spOnge-bat
every morning Of your life, and occasionali
warm dip. Clean Why you are filthy
So, at least, the bath men prove to yo
presently, for they take you back to til
former IOcm.
They extend you upon n slab; they knea
your muscles and your flesh, and they roll o
you such mass of dead skin-used up ep
dermis-tbat, but for the evidence of you
senses, you never would have believed
bsve once belonged TO you. However ceanl
you may have fancied yourself 10 be, that
what the Turkish bath will take from yor
The sensation of relief which follows th
diEencumbrance is actually amazing. Whf
follows is the crOwning JOY of all. Tt
Tritons, having shampooned you, lead 20
to a cold bath. They anoint you wit
soap, and turn upon you shower Of co
water, following it up with douchs.
In front Of the Turkish bath are the dres
.ipg-rucms, drawing-rooms and sweating
rooms, TO which access is had by two stat
ways.