The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-01-27

Different Effects which it's Patrons seek
to Obtain by Its Use.


A cab stopped in front of fashionable
Turkish bathing establishment at two
O'Clock in the morning. The street was de.
serted, and when the rattle of the cab wheek
On the cobblestones had died away voice
in the cab ordered the driver to open the
door. A young man with high hat and
very short kersey oyercoat fell into cabbys
arms. The cabman helped the young man
into the establishment and delivered him
over TO an attendant; then the cabman
came out on the sidewalk just as Nine.
tenth district policeman came up. The
sabman said to the blue-coated yigin as h,
pointed over his shoulder
He's been doin' this town for five hours.
Wine, whiskey, besr-full as goat Gone
% get sobered up"
ltwasn'tmore than twenty minutes before
mother 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 chuck
led. Cabby No. explained that his pas.
sengers had just come from their club
house that they had been having dinner
party and that theirs we're cases of CON-
bination of too much wine and salads. The
attendant snid that bath was sure cure
for too much wine.
Take n man," he said "who's beer
thinking bit too much and let him ga
into the steambox and then bring him out
into the cooling room, and bless your heart
he'll be oil right in jiffy. II he's been
drinking whiskey it'll come out at the pores,
and you can smell the fumes of the whiskey
in the room. The man'll be feeling tiptop
in an hour and his head'll be clear as bell.
Oh, it's great, this here treatment nothing
like it. II gent goes to his club and drinks
too much wine he can come here ct mid.
night, we'll say, and BIO home at two O'Clock
rs sober as Judge"
Have you many such customers ?" wa,
asked.
Lots of en- 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
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 fash right rapid"
It was learned that there are on an aver
lge about fifty patrons day who visit the
establishment. Several we'll known men
go daily simply to be rubbed in the manipu-
lating room, and II was explained that the
sensation after an hour in the different
rooms made man feel like jumping over
fences. Some men visit the baths after eat
ing too heartily, and a good many men
troubled with govt go frequently. One man
said he always left the place feeling several
years younger. The general custom Is to
weigh oneself before entering the hot rooms.
Many indulge in plunge bath which has q
temperature OF seventy-three degrees. Fat
men prefer this way OF reducing their flesh
in preference 70 gymnastic exercise, because
the gymnasium practice is fatiguing, while
the sensation produced by the bath has q
soothing effect. One man who has patron
lied the baths for two years has reduced his
avoirdupois from $50 to 100 pounds in that
time and declares that he ismuch healthier
Among the patrons Of the establishment
there are about fifteen rheumatics who near
ly all battle daily. There are sleeping
rooms attached to the place, and IL 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 patronize the
baths. Fat ladies mostly who are averse to
becoming corpulent are largely in the ma
jority. Quite a number 60 to clear then
compilations and go through the same pro-
cess as the men patrons, who are not adj
United on ladies' day. Phiiadc1pnia Times