Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-24
MY TURKISH BATH.

1t happened to be eleven o'clocl
some time during yesterday fore
noon. ....s.
l generally take something at tina
hour.
Yesterday 1 took Turkish bath
l took horse car. THAT, how
ever, neither here nor there; but i
got within two blocks of there ar
11:25.) ran up the steps of the
I. B. establishment, and wired the
inmates. The door flew open, and
an ideal voter, erst chattel { l hope
l am not obscure in this deeply in.
teresting portion of the narrative
pointed his thumb over his shoulder
displayed a choice assortment OF
ivory, and chuckled with great
natural ease. 1 supposed this to
be the custom with the colored pop
ulation of Turkey, and passed on.
Everything was Turkish. | was
struck with the order of the bath
also the symmetry of the..apartments.
As l think I before remarked,
passed on. ai -.
The N. D. proprietor shook hands
with me very cordially. l also shook
hands with him. l told him that
wanted no ceremony; but if agree
able to him 1 would gird up my
loins and go in. He intimated that
the only ceremony was to fund a
small portion of the contents of my
pocket-bOok. 1 am little hard of
hearing-and l passed on.
An assistant, in the light and airy
costume which / have so often
noticed in Central Africa, in mid
summer, beckoned to me, after l had
laid aside quantity of goods (be-
longing to my tailor, and other
business mem and 1 fol-
lowed him.
The room we entered was heated
by what l took to be q successful
furnace. l must have been mis-
taken, however, for understood the
assistant to apologize because, by
reason of a defect in the flues, they
had been able to get the tempera-
ture up only to about Ats degrees
that morning. was q little disap-
pointed, but simply suggested that
he thermometer was Fair in Height;
out if I felt chilly l would send out
or some blankets.
He laid me on Slated couch.
Inexperienced gentle glow.
Afterwards-I don't know why,
exactly, 1 have always attributed it
% the temperature-If felt hot-hot-
;er-Hottentotter! 1t seemed as
'hough the equator ran right along
he line of my backbone.
didn't care.
I couldn't recollect whether my
lame was Shadrack, Meshack, or
Abednego; but 1 was baking and
sizzling just as furiously as though |
had paid in advance. My pores
we're opening, and the perspiration
vas immense. A red bandanna
handkerchief would have been
wamped. ...
Waiting till my identity was pref
y much gone, 1 dropped into an
'ther marble hall. The assistant
o whom my warmest thanks are
lue-scooped up what was left of
ne and laid me on a slab.
The assistant said / needed him,
nut to the best of my recollection,
e kneaded me. He went all over
ne, taking up a collection, and did
rst-rate. 1 threw off all reserve
bout half a pound, should Judge.
lie seemed to take fancy to me. 1
ever knew man to get so init
late on short acquaintance.
We talked nationally on a good
lany subjects.
He said he barely got living
here. I was surprised. / supposed
e managed to scrape together a
ood deal in the course ofa year.
He said he wanted to go into some
holesale house. / ventured to- I
redict that success awaited him in
lie rubber business. In fact, we
ept up quite stream of conver-
ltion, which he supplemented with S
hose that played over me in a gen.
e, leisurely manner, as if l were q
lily insured.
He then showed me into a deep
ater tank where the "Rules for Re-
oring persons apparently drowned"
hizzed through my mind, and / '
me very near forgetting that 1
dn't know how to swim. 1 man
red, however, to fish myself out in
ason to observe bald headed
nanias, who murmured that he had !;
zen laid upon the table and should
Ike peel!
1 came out of the drying-room, Y
I'd made them think / was General +
rant, by calling for a cigar. I
'ank cup of coffee. After while
ratified into my clothes and felt
,tter. So much so that l did what i
seldom do, walked clean home.
If live to be ninety-ei years
d, and am pensioned by Congress,
c explanation which 1 shall give
the country at large is that it is ?
lie to that Turkish Bath. / can't
Il you what l owe to it.-SPARs-
ED YOUNG, in PunchiaeHo.