The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-06-14
BATHS IN sLClERS.
How the UnlucIzy Mortal is Pounded ani
Roasted U-hie e Taking a Bath.


No traveller in the East can consider
his sojourn complete without the ex-
perience at least. if not luxury. of a
Turkish or Moorish bath.
IL you go, you 90 to perSpire, and to
see everybody and everything around
you perspirc. After undressing and
depositing your watch and yaluables
with the proprietor, 90 to the hot room
and stretch yourself upon a raised
platform in the center of the tepidari-
um, built of large slabs of marble over
an oven i'll which a raging fire is eager
to roast You. Think of the dolmens of
old upon whose backs the Druids offer
ed their sacrifices, and imagine YOUR
self any animal you please. When you
are roasted on one side, turn over and
try another corner Of your altar to lind
a cool spot. Then lie on the stone floor
and let your grinning attendant crack
your bones, pull your joints, and twist
your neck, and knead you with his
hands, and walk over you with his
knees; then let him roll off your old
skin, and with evident pride lay before
you long strips of your worthless hide,
a dozen OF them in a row; then YOU be-
Gin to realize that you have had one
bath in Your lifetime that has been of
some genuine use to yourhuman exist
ence. Pumice-stone for the solcs of
your feet, and strong soap. and wisps
Of hemp or some similar fiber, help to
take Of your second skin, but YOU keep
on your third to 90 home with by fixing
ii with bucket or two of cold water
Then, to keep what remains of YOU to-
gether, and TO prevent your third skin
from trying TO get away, Your attend
ant wraps you tightly in towels as big
as sheets, and your head in a turban,
and perches You on high wooden SAN
dals to keep your feet out of the water,
for the pavement is also perspiring
freely; small rivers flow in every direc-
ton. In this becoming garb, like a
man buried by mistake in the cata-
combs, YOU come forth and lie down
with the other mistaken corpses, and
help them drink tea, and perspire once
more, and throw another mantle-of
smokc-about YOU with long pipe.
Then you are fit for nothing; lie still
and let the world wag as it will.
The baths are the great places of
rendezvous for the Arab women. who
spend IN afternoon there frequently
(their hours being from n0ontill Seyen),
and they certainly deserve this much of
social intercourse. They are seen with
their children in the streets going to
the bath, accompanied by gorgeous
negress carrying a bronze vessel filled
with necessary articles, and other bas-
kets and bundles containinga complete
change of linen, also several strings of
orange blossoms. Orange-hower water
is not to be forgotten, for it enters ex-
tensiv tly into their luXuries as a drink
with leir meals and rs perfume. For
the l. ter purpose 4 bottle Of brass, sill
Yer, o. gold, with long neck and pep
per-boX termination, is used, with
which they sprinkle guests at home and
friends at the bath as well as them
sclyo4. The baths, again, "take in
washing" especially Of heavy Woollen
burnooscs, haiks, blankets, etc, which
the attendants and the n0utcb0 Ca
young boy-servant, whose name is evil
IDENTITY Of Spanish origin) wash with
their feet and plenty of soap and water
on the pavement in the hot room. These
articles are hung, with the bath towels
and other linen, to dry on the terraces.
To make a study under drippings Of
such an entire laundry may be looked
upon as feat, aside from the fact that
the moutcho seemed afraid to leave ne
within reach OF such valuable wet linz
en-. With sulphur fumigations the vel.
low burnooses, arranged like tents over
the smoke, are bleached. This opera
ton is equal to 4 thousand matches
burning unwelcome incense under the
artists nose. The bath attendants arc
apparently wonderfully constituted to
avoid rheumatism and pneumonia;
they 90 in and out Of the Heated room
for hours together with only towel
round their ioins, but they do catch
cold all the same.-E. i. Brt4gn.5lD, 5,2
Xurper'S MIluzile