St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-25
SOLDERING IN A BATH.
Fast Young Men Who Go to Turkish
Bathing Establishment to
Brace Up.
Carried In by Cabmen in the Early
Hours Of the Morning Very,
Very Full.
Sweating in the Steam box q Ger.
tain Cure for Too Much
Sparkling Wine.

TAIN cure LOT 100 MUCH
Sparkling Wine.
A cab stopped in front Of fashionable
Turkish bathing establishment at o'clock
yesterday morning. The street was de-
serted and when the rattle of the cab
wheels on the coblestones had died away a
voice in the cab ordered the driver to open
the door. A young man with high hat
and very short kersey overcoat fell into
cabby's arms. The cabman helped the
young man into the establishment and de-
Hvered him over to an attendant; then the
cabman came out on the sidewalk just as a
Nineteenth district policeman come up. The
cabman said to the biue-coated vigil, as he
pointed over his shoulder:
Hes been dom the town for five hours
Wine, whisky, beer-full as goat. Gone
to get sobered up"
1t wasn't more than twenty minutes be-
fore another cab stopped at the door and
two men, whose legs would get tangled,
were helped into the house by the driver.
Then the two cabmen and the policeman
chuckled. Cabby No. explained that his
passengers had just come from their club
house; that they had been having dinner
party, and that theirs were cases of COM
bination of too much wine and salads.
THE PROCESS OF soBEBINQ UP.
The young man with the very short ker-
sey overcoat had his valuables put into
drawer and locked up in big safe; then he
was undreSSed in one of the dressing rooms
and led to hot room. where the thermom-
eter registered 140 degrees. In two min
utes he was reekmg and was helped into
the next room, where the temperature was
100 degrees. Here he perspired some more.
He wasn't communicative at all and ap-
peared to be thoroughly oblivious of his
surroundings. Two minutes of the room
of 100 degrees was enough, and then he was
taken into the steam-boX. The steam was
SO thick that he couldn't have seen anything
if he had wanted to, and he didn't make
the slightest objection to being laid up On
marble slab. He laid there for ten min
utes and his body looked as if he had
just been fished out of river. Suddenly
there was change and the utter inditfer-
ence be showed at first began to gradually
grow into consciousness of his surround
ings. When he was lifted off the marble
slab and walked out of the steam-box his
legs were more willing in the matter Of 10
cUmotion. He was allowed to rest IN
for five minutes on wicker
work lounging-chair, similar to a steamer
chair and then he was taken into the manip-
ulating room and rubbed and scrubbed till
his flesh was deep cardinal hue. When
this process was through with half an hour
had passed and he knew who he was and
that he was in a Turkish bath establish
ment. And then passing into big room
with two rows of wicker-work lounges, he
spent half an hour with sheet thrown over
him.. When he got up his dull eyes had
grown bright. His gait was steady, and
when he was dressed and went out to his
cab he looked as if he had never slipped the
wine that is red. The cabman was told to
drive to Twentieth and Walnut streets, and
at 4 o'clock the young man who couldn't see
a keyhole at 3 put his latch-key In the door
and disappeared inside the portals of mer-
chant princes palace,
A SURE CURE FOR TOO MUCH WINE.
In the meantime the two club men had
been put through similar treatment and
their cabman slammed the carriage door
little after O'Clock and the cab ratified up
the street. The attendant said that bath
was sure cure for too much wine.
''Take a man," he said, who's been
drinking a bit too much and let him go into
the steam-box and then bring him out into
the cooling room, and bless your heart he'll
be all right in jiffy. If he's been drink
ing whisky it'll come out at the pores and
you can smell the fumes of the whisky in
the room. The man'il be feeling tip-top in
an hour and his head1l be as clear as bell
Oh, it's great, this here treatment; nothing
like it. If gent goes to his club and
drinks too much wine he can come here at
midnight, We'll say, and be home at 2
o'cl ,ck as sober as judge"
"Have you many such customers" was
asked.
''Lots of 'em," was the reply. 'Every
night. tell you there's nothing like it.
But the principal number Of our customers
are gents either too fat or too thin. The fat
men come here to get rid of their flesh and
the thin men come to get it. These baths
work both ways. A fat man can stand two
baths week without hurting him and he'll
lose two pounds every time. The thin men
get their pores all open and pick up some
flesh right rapid
MANY PATRONS OF THE BATHS.
It was learned that there are on an aver
age about fifty patrons day who visit the
Several well-known men
go daily simply to be rubbed in
the manipulating room and it was
hour in the different rooms made man
teel like jumping over fences. Some men
visit the baths after eating too heartily and
a good many men troubled with govt go
One man says he always left
the place feeling several years younger.
The general custom is to weigh oneself be-
fore entering the hot rooms. Many in
duIge in plunge bath which has tenn
perature of 70 degrees. Fat men prefer
this way Of reducing their flesh in prefer
ence to gymnastic exercise, because the
gymnasium practice is fatiguing, while the
sensation produced by the bath has sooth-
ing effect One man who has patrOniZed
the baths for two years has reduced his
avoirdupois from $50 to 100 pounds in that
time and declares that he is much healthier.
Among the patrons of the establishment
there are about fifteen rheumatics, who
nearly all battle daily. There are sleeping
rooms attached to the place, and if man
wants to throw himself into the arms of
Morpheus he makes his wish known and is
shown to room.
On ladies' day good many ladies patron
iZe the baths. Fat ladies mostly who are
averse to becoming cOrpulent are largely in
the majority. Quite number go to clear
their compilations and. go through the same
process as the men patrons, who are not
admitted on ladies' day. = Philadelphia
Times.
Hengler has got together wonderful
troupe for the present season and is divid-
ing the custom of the town with the the
alters with collection of pretty and grace
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