The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-06-20

THE EXPERIENCE OF A LADY CoRREs-
GRAPHICALLY DISCUSSED.
The Lady correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer has taken a Turkish bath. She
says; Il went straightway to one of tho
several large establishments during the
hours when it was sacred to my own sex.
Not q man was to be seen about the place.
A woman took my $1.50 in an outer office
and let me into the next room, which look
ed like the cabin of a Hudson River steam
boat. 1t was long and low, with q soft car
pet on the floor and a row of doors at the
sides, opening into little dressing-rooms. l
was told to go in one of them and disrobe.
Must | take of everythingY' I asked.
will find a sheet to wrap yourself in"
Just then a ghostly figure, wound in a
sheet, emerged from a room and disappear
ed through another door at the further end
OF the cabin. She was a tall, thin woman,
with a bloodless face, and her black hair
hung loose. I wouldn't rave liked to meet
her in q graveyard on a dark night. But
she was completely e~nveloped, and that
gave me comfort, for 1 had. felt
BLUsHINGLY sQUEAMIsH.
Knight ave been seen ten minutes after
ward coming sheeted out of my room, and
blinking toward the entrance of the bath.
l pushed open the door, and had scarcely
seen that 1 was in a mere ante-room, when
whisk went the sheet, and l was in the
condition of my grandma Eve before she
took to aprons. An attendant had grabbed
of he covering.
Here" said, budding myself together,
Il want that"
20, none of the ladies ever wear any,
thing was the response in an expostula-
tory tone.
Well, it wouldn't do to kick against the
fashion, and 1 allowed myself to be pushed
into the bathroom. What q sight met nv
astonished eyes! About one hundred and
hfty utterly nude women were in that big
room, lounging in willow chairs and sofas,
walking about, chatting with acquaintan-
ces, n Perspiring like squeezed sponges.
The temperature was 100, the dry heat
pouring in from registers on all sides. l
was awfully ashamed at first, but the I'M
concern of a great majority gradually re-
assured me, and at length 1 ventured out
OF the corner in which / had taken refuge.
The scene would lave d~isenchanted, I
VOW, the most ardent admirer of my sex.
Ihere were many comedy bathers to be
sure, with lin forms and smooth, white
skins, but the revelation of h~ollow-chested
maids and flabby matrons, of spindle
shanks and hairy arms, of corns and bun
ions, and of various ~unshapeliness, was
something beyond my power or desire of
description. An old walrus of a woman
waddled her red three hundred pounds
around with a lank, rib-displaying wearer
OF eyeglasses. / saw several persons whom
| had seen before, and, bless me, how alter
ed they looked without clothes! One of
these was the popular actress of q theatri-
cal company, and l knew her by sight, be-
cause of having seen her half undressed on
the stage. Somebody called me by name,
and ], with considerably greater difficulty,
recognized the face of an acquaintance.
Perhaps that assemblage was not fairly
representative, but, taking it as a stand
ard, not more than one in ten of US is rea-
sonably good in finery, and not one in fifty
would do for statuary. The best figure in
the lot was that of a woman who could not
have been less than As years old, and it
was perfection itself in every curve and
proportion but, as a rule, the women of
25 to 30 excelled in form, the younger ones
being scrawny, and the older ones either
gaunt or fabby. AS for the cute littlo
aprons, sashes, and r~udimentary skirts
which l had expected to see land which l
have since been told are worn, though rare
ly, by parties of swell women when they
hire the whole establishment for their ex-
elusive s~elves,) not q shred was to be seen.
The only wearers of anything were the
dozen attendants, all slender, sprightly
young women. Each had a towel wrapped
around her body from waist to hips, an
other over one shoulder and across tho
breast TO the opposite armpit, and a third
wound turban-like around the head. They
looked jaunty and agreeable. 1t was their
task to show bathers how TO use the cold
water douches, pools and showers, and TO
scrub them with brushes as they lay OF
marble tables. 1 liked the bath well
enough but 1 am sorry | saw the naked
women, for they rather disenchanted me.S