Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-06-27

parental authority, if there is such thing
in these degenerate days should step in and
prevent our girls from running their health. -
almost every day am besieged by so
fictitious mammals worried about Josephines
or Angelina's health, and begging me to
positively forbid those dreadful Turkish
baths
''what are the special attractions of the
Turkish bath?''
''Oh, they are various. Some are addic-
ted to them for the physical delight they
afford; Others have an idea that they are
good for the complexion las they are in
some cases when moderately INDUCED I'M;
others, again-and these compose a major
ity-take them because all the nice girls
dO.'r
Anxious for personal experience and in
search of a new sensation, the writer OBJ
tanned the necessary directions and was
driven to the fashionable establishment
said to be frequented by the aforesaid mice
girls"
1t was about 10 o'clock on a Saturday
morning, and the buXom nymphs OF the
bath, who glided about in extremely decol-
lete costumes, had more work on hand
than they could well attend to.
Saturday is our busiest day, " remarked
one of them, rs the Daily News represen-
tative underwent the usual preliminary Of
a shampoo. and most of the ladies come
between 10 and /. Sometimes we have rs
many rs thirty here during the morning
she added ms the reporter followed her down
a marble corridor TO the hot room, where
half dozen girls, in yOluminOus white
drapery. were reclining on lounges IN a
temperature of 1902.
One luxurious young woman was supplied
with a box OF maroon glances and u volume
of Browning; another was deep IN u novel,
while a third, whose hair repoSed in her
Ian, WAS reading to her friend in low voice.
Two or three were idly staring at the cell
inc, and all looking supremely content
with themselves and the world.
One by one as the prescribed hali-hOur in
the hot room" came to an end, they dis
appeared, in charge OF an attendant, into
the adjoining bathiug-gOOmS, whence issued
muflled sounds OF vigorous thumpngS anu
poundings, filling the soul OF the novice
with awe and curiosity.
Every now and then white-clad figure,
issuing from the mysterious chamber,
paSSed the hot room" on her way to the
dreSsing-cloSctS, there to b. Snugly rolled
up in blankets and left to follow her own
sweet will. whether it led her to the arms
of Morpheus or the mystic maZcS OF Mrs.
Rrowning's fancy, or, rs with the writer, to
the Welding up OF herself To n delicious
dreamy laagour, through which OCCASION
ally pSnetratcd the chat from neighbOring
rooms:
Don't you feel perfectly splendid
YES, Just splendid
"Will YOU have some of my oil?"
Wont it make my face shine
''Oh, no. You can put powder on after
ward"
About three hours is the time usually al
lowed for r. h. - they are called by
the craft, hut when the alditiGnl luNuries
of a manicure and pcdicure are indul"ed IN
four or five hours are often spent under the
marble arches.
The broughamS and viCtoriaS of the doY0'
tees. some uf whom come twice or even
three times u week, usually begin to arrive
between 9 and I'D O'clOck. and are some
times not ordered a"lin until ,.
ITS such a capital way to kill time,
said girl the other day.
IfpOor old Father Time We're the only
sufferer. the 4. d. mania might M allowed
b run it's course unm0lcStcd, hut the Scri-
Gus charges brought against it by leading
physicians makes its indulgence or suppres-
sion question ior consideration.
Opinions on the matter are of course
varied.
If they must perspirc, " said gruif old
doctor, when called upon to prescribe for
two pale and lunguid T. +. dcvOteeS, let
EN- do it ~ a horse doc'-5y honest eXcr-
else.