The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-06
TURKISH BATHS.
Prospects Of their Establishment In
this ity-DeseriptfOu by VIC

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Inssmuch as there is favorable pros,
pect OF Turkish baths being established
in this city in the near future, At the nos
pital. a description by victim IN one OF
the metropolitan cities will be found oil
interest: "You are ushered into room
where the temperature ranges from lou
to 100 degrees OF neat. When you nave
been seated some seconds, every part oil
YOUR BODY begins TO be covered with
protuse perspiratIon, while breathing the
not air with perfect freedom. Presently
YOU are aware that you are in bath OIL
YOUR own making. In drops, in streams
| 10 rivers it runs over you; your hair 10
! full of it, your face Is bsthed In 1t, your
| limbs are inundated. Tne seven millions
| of pores said to be in the human BODY
are busi.y engaged in freeing themselves
from the bonds of long uncoi sclous
| Imprisonment. In fact you are ID
the most profuse perspiration you
| ever experienced In your lie.
| What was the ten mile walk on the Au-
gust day TO this? 1t made your shirt
stick to your back but this would soak d
whole weeks washing ofshirts. AS you
sit quietly communing with yourself OF
these matters, one of the bathmen comes
and feels at your skin, and may wish you
! to stop q little longer in the not room,
great is the power OF human endurance;
all is dry, but you are like dideoh
fleece. The heat is great, but yoI do not
care for it. The seven million pores are
now all Tree and are rejoicing IN their
freedom. You thought yourself clean
person because you had taken sponge
bath every morning all your ne,
and an occasional warm dip. Clean
Why you were filthy. 50 At least the
bathman will prove TO you presently, Tor
nc will take you into the shampoo'ng
room, and extend you on a marble SLAB,
and knead your muscles and your hesh'
and then roll of such mass OF dead SKIN
from the epidermis that, but for the evil
dence of YOUR senses, you never could
have believed had once belonged TO you.
However clearly you may nave lahcieu
Yourself To be that Is what the turkish
bath takes from you, not only on your
first visit, but every week after
The sensation of relief which follows
the disencumbrance is amazing.
But what follows is the crown
ing iov OF all. After the bathsman hiss
shampConed you, he turns on shower
of cold water. Oh, the enjoyment, the
delicious enjoyment OF such sensation!
There is no pleasure OF the senses to com
pare with it, He then anclnts you WITH
soap and turns you again under the
shower bath, and your new polished
limbs and skin glow with health and VI
talitv. You court the cold water and
reve1 in it, and cannot have too much OF
If; the bathman has some difficulty IN
leading you forth. After sheetng YOU,
you again pass into the cooling
room, where lying On couch, You ex-
pose your body to the fresh and cooling
AIT, giving as much oxygen in exchange
for the carbon of which you have been
purified. In this quiet paradise after n
little while you again resume your
clothes, and walk forth a regcnerateA
mani What u difference between yolr-
self Ms you walked IN and yoursel! ao you
walked out of the magic place. You
almost doub. whether You have not
changed your limbs tor soneone else
leaving tho old weary ones behind ana
taking some OF u superior construction,
bran new, muscular and untirlng. You
could walk twenty miles without weary +
inc those wel'-oiled JOINTS.