Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-02-07
TIE TURKISH BATH.
AN lNsTlTuTloN THAT is Popu-
LAR WITH THE LADIES.

loDhliS, ldliISOiiS WHICH III give iulI
credit to the identifying influence of
regular Turkish baths. All the public
Turkish baths have Ladies' Days." and
the register of the leading establishment
yields on inspection a long list of names
of ladies prominent in society, in the
schools, in the churches-in all the sets
and circles of the body social of our city.
On Ladies' Days" this bath house can
hardly accommodate the crowds of
maids, matrons, children and school
girls that are its regular customers.
HAVE THEIR REGULAR DAYS
The visitor as well as the attendants at
the bath house Don learn to look for GER
tain classes on the same days of each sue
cessive week. Those who come by order
of their physicians. or for some special
physical ailment, are generally promptly
on hand Tuesday; society women who
come to recuperate their expended
strength and for beauty baths, favor
Thursday as the off day of their week,
when the gayeties pause for breath and
one is less likely to miss something" on
that day. Saturday is the teachers day.
when they may stop to shed the dead
skin of their spent forces and relax the
taut muscles of discipline on the slab
where the spray soothingly falls on the
just and the unjust alike, for most often,
too, some of their recalcitrant pupils
come in gay, noisy little shoals and make
the corridors ring with their laughter and
little screams of merriment.
The faith of many women in the vir-
tues of the Turkish bath is limitless.
Those who are too thin believe that they
will attain the plumpness of their stand
ard of perfection by continuing the
baths. Those who groan with flesh think
the bathing and the rubbing will make
the burden roll away; those whose COM
plexions are too pale or too sallow seek
there color and clearness. The pimpled
face expects to grow smooth, the flushed
face pale7-in sooth, they think the Turk
ish bath the real fountain of eternal
youth and beauty. Women as ugly and
old as the Witch of Endorhave parboiled
themselves until the sap of life has left
their skins like parchment, and they
have finally dried up and blown away
on the way from their tri-weekly trips
to the Turkish baths, where they hoped
to grow fat, fair, and 40 at least, when
scragginess and the seventies had seized
them ten years before.
One entire fat family of social as well
as personal magnitude in this city never
fails to send its ample supply of daugh-
tiers for a douche and a pounding every
Thursday: but pounding only seems to
make them more pulpy. Then there are
three thin sisters who go to gain SYM
metry; and three other sisters who have
the natural rotundity and rosiness of
stocky girls only m generation removed
from the farm life of their nr1aher's pa
rental precincts, go for-well, for what?
Perhaps to get elongated; perhaps to &C
quire a little Observation-Disclosures
knows for what-perhaps only for the
fun of it. Then there comes a tall girl,
neither too thick nor too thin, too rosy
nor too pale, and, as is natural, she in
clines to the stout, short girls, and they
compare notes on the advantages of
Turkish baths.
SOUNDING THE La ALARM.
The mother of nine children, whose
friends tell her she doesn't look a day
older (than whom or when?), comes reg
ularly, and says, ''it's the Turkish bath
does it," The phrase may be a little
promiscuous, but it seems to be under,
stood by her friends and fellow bathers,
After her will com a beautiful matror
of ten years standing, who never had
any children, and her acquaintance will
tell her she never looked so beautiful
and strong, and congratulate her on the
good times she has going around the
world and having no children to keel
her at home, and wind up by saying she
looks younger than ever, and she says, il
is all the Turkish bath.
Then a widely known teacher. wise
and learned, will be heard telling a pail
little Dante woman that nothing SO help,
to clear the brain and put spring into The
vertebra and make keen the nerves
which, ncclogged, aid all the facultie
to digest the learned dissertations of thu
doctors now expounding doctrines of til,
flesh and tho devil as given forth b,
Goethe at the guild rooms of st. Georges
as a thorough massage of the physica
woman.
A suffragist, tossing wildly on a hare
couch near by, from which she can Sc,
the clock. whose warning hour hans
stands at half-past 70, notes the fact tina
1--WE must all be getting out of here prett.
, soon for those selfish men, who want tn
place at / o'clock. When women ca
{ vote We'll change all this" 81 hope yov
won't vote to let the men In during tn
women's hours" exclaimed the horrife,
woman of calculus and bellies lettres
mo! wait till l get my corsets on" erie
q beauty from her dressing room VIII
has only heard "men' mentioned, an
she Immediately applies the rabbits foe
to her cheeks, ties down h~erlace veil an
goes out with a last injunction to lie
bather to "take car of my terry blanke
and things"-and with her face towar
= the door to get the first glimpse of an
!, of those .'horrid men" who may be con
Ing, she looks over the register as sh
s signs her name and reads therein a lis
5 of the best known names in the city
9 st. Louis Republic.
!, There has been begun in Paris q can
paign against trained nurses, and a I,
! turn to the old system of nursing by Si
J tiers of Charity has been strongly advt
7 Gated. 1t is alleged that the mortalit
: in hospitals isl per cent. higher sine
the Introduction Of trained nurses,
Jack.