St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-20

| Venus. Few women have pretty feet,
| and around the room was large col
| lection of divers kinds of pedal eXtremi-
| ties, large and small, long and short,
with distorted toes and large joints, but
hers were faultless in form and as deli
cate in coloring as the inside of a sea-
shell. She was laid out on marble
slab, her head ON sponge, rubbed and
scrubbed and secured, held under
lifted her pretty face like a flower
to the sunshine. Wrapped up III bath
blanket and laid out OH one of the little
cOuches, her hair brushed and spread
out like mass of gold over the pillow,
with one round, pinky-White arm out
side the blanket, the claSped hands
under her cheek, while the soft, dreamy
eyes. half hidden by the white lids in
delicious languor, grew dark with ten
derneSS.
The women all come out of the shower
bath with hysterical little screams and
gasps and funny feminine little eXcla-
nations. They are rubbed dry by the
attendants, and then wrap themselves
in square Of thin muslin and hurry on
to the scales.
"Oh, dear. I've gained a whole pound
since was here last week." exclaimed
one.
''Well, what's the matter with that"
said the attendant; ''don't you like it?"
Like it? Well, l should say not,
when I've been starving myself all
winter, going without all the things l
like to eat, and walking miles and miles
to get thin" And then thin woman
stepped on the scales, eying her pretty,
plump predecessor with envy as she
Wlstfully watched the attendant take off
the coveted weights.
CHATTING AND EATING.
In the stalls women were chatting,
eating rolls and drinking chocolate and
coffee. with an occasional glass of wine,
and shouting for the attendants in i'm
patients tones, while their maids
waited outdoors to dress them when the
alcohol rub had been administered. In
the double rooms friends were discuss
ing the usual veXing questions which
agitate the feminine mind-dreSs, bon
nets, servants and husbands-the soft
hum of conversation occasionally inter-
rupted with a Shrill little exclamation
on them by the attendants. AS the
lunch hour approaches, calls for service
are more impatient and commanding,
the attendants fly about from room to
room, and things hum and buzz in tine
long room. Suddenly there is great ex-
citement-some one has fainted-at-
PENDANTS rush to the rescue, and late
arrival is helped out of the warm room.
"Where is Aggie?" she gasps.
81 will send for her; she will come in
just minute" said the manager sooth-
ingly.
But don't want her; I won't have
her. She hasn't treated me right. l
sent her special word that 1 would be
ready at II o'clock and she has kept ME
waiting half an hour. l won't stand
such treatment from any one, and
-
But she was torn off, still suffering,
by the patient attendants to the vapor
bath below.
"DOes she come here often?'
"About once in three years, but that
is often enough, for she is such fidget.
She didn't come until IL o'clock, as
usual, the busiest hour in the day down
stairs, and she wants more attention
than two women need"
Are many women eXacting like
that?"
''Plenty of them. Some women want
the world, you know, and everyone in it
to wait on them, but they don't get it
here. Everyone is served alike. We