The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-11-03

there in the dark, the oldest u girl only
about eight years of age. Once she had
left her little brothers and sisters to try and
get morSel to eat; but driven back unsuc-
ccsSful by her supreme and remorseless
misery. she sat down by their side to die.
LOOK your yellow covered novel through,
seek where you will for sickening sensation
stories, but nowhere will you find more
pitifult or terrible revelation. When dis
covered by the agents of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the
rats that were swarming around them scam
pered to their hiding places, while the foul
aud fetid atmosphere of the miserable den
compelled the humane agents to seek the
air as quickly as possible. God bless that
society for the good it has done, and is still
doing. Win not the friends of humanity
throughout this land aid them in their
noble work? | am happy to be able to state
that the little waits are now well cared for,
looked after by angels of mercy; they had
been abandoned by drunken mother, who
had been committed to Blackwell's Island.
The death of Geo. Fox Humpty Dumpty
reminds me that his partner George Lin
gard, in the Old and New Bowery, com
mitted suicide by jumping into the North
River some years ago. The firm of Fox
and Lingard was one of the most successful
ever seen in the city; prosperity ruined
both of them, and both died in poverty
p inst tha pit in
the neighboring State of New Jersey, there
has Just been 4 terrible discovery among
the paupers, the board of trustees made a
sudden descent on the poor house on Tues
day, and found the.inmates, seven hundred
and fifty in number, in state of starva-
ton and filth too shocking to be described.
The whole state is in a fever of lndigDa-
ton at the terrible exposure of crime and
suffering, which we hope for the sake of
common humanity can not long exist
without a remedy.
At last New York is happy, for we have
Russian bath, not the fraudulent imi-
tations with which certain impostors have
amused our cousins in the neighboring
country tOHu Dul lut ltdi ScuuluS
pure Russian bath, such as Peter the Great
might have sweltered in, or the Great En-
peror Nicholas have honored by his after
noon siesta. am not aware that history
gives US any positive and reliable informa-
ton as to who was the first individual who
enjoyed Russian bath. The first bath
ing on an extended scale that | can call to
mind at the present time was a gentleman
named Noah something-nis other name |
forget-who got caught in a heavy shower
once, and was SO disguised with water ever
after, that he took the earliest opportunity
OF testifying his contempt for it by getting
tight as brick as soon as he got on shore.
The next individual that tried Rushing
bath was one Pharaoh, who lived somewhere
il the vicinity of the Pyramids. He went
hunting for ews with some of his friends,
and only succeeded in getting duck in
the Red Sea, while Moses stood on the banks
with his friends and made game Of him as
he went down. All decent nations have
their baths; we have ours. We may not
yet be able to rival the baths of Adrian or
Carracalla. perhaps we have nothing that
will equal the Tepidarium of buried Pom
peii. But this we have, beyond all question,
the finest bath house in the United States,
if not on the continent of America. The
opening of the establishment was not one of
the events of the week. For months past the
busy note Of preparation has been sounding
and our fashionable elite, to whom the
Russian bath has become an absolute neceS-
sity, have been on tip-toe of expectation.
The opening took place on Tuesday, the
23d, and no event of the season has created
a greater sensation. All sorts of marvellous
stories had got afloat of the luxurious APP
pointments of the new establishment, and
of the thousands who flocked to the open
ing on Tuesday, all were surprised and de-
lighted. The press was largely repre-.
scented, ministers and lawyers, bellies of our
fashionable society who resort to it to pre-
serve their beauty, artists, authors, and
men of leisure, and doctors innumerable
graced the new baths with their presence.
The building, No. IS Lafayette Place, is
large, handsome and commodious, but once
inside and the interior arrangements
eclipse everything of the kind that has
been seen on the continent before. All the
rooms are magnificently furnished, and
there are accommodations for sixty bathers
at time. Passing from the splendid and
richly furnished parlors you are ushered
into the dressing department; having dis
robed you are conveyed to a beautiful room
of the purest white marble having several
tires ofshelves OF couches with white marble
pillows, on which the Russian bather may
repose; for the first grand motto of the es-
tablishment is "Take time" and the sec.
ond is like unto it, Don't be in hurry
Around this apartment floats light film
of steam and in the center is a marble
basin - feet long and feet wide, filled
with pure cold water. You stop here only
few minutes, and passing through an
other small apartment you are ushered
into the grand marble hall known as the
main bath. Here the steam is up to 1870,
and when you first enter some poor sinners
have been heard to say that it felt like a
toretaste Of the future. For moment the
heat is overpowering; the dense steam en-.
volops You in 4 cloud so that it is impossi
BILE to recognize person a few feet away;
here you stretch yourself out on luxu-
rious marble couch and gradually sink into
state OF beatitude only known to the
blest. After doing away about half an
hour, you take shower if you please, any
thing from young Niagara to a gentle
spray, and then you pass into the small
apartment which lies between low and
high temperature bathing rooms, here you
are laid out on marble slab and an at
tendant rapidly soaps you from your head
to your heels, and taking brush in his
hand something like horse BRUSH he
rubs you down till you begin to sympathize
with the horse, to think he has to undergo
this punishment every morning. When
that fellow gets through with you, you
don feel as il you would need Scruhbinp