Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-16

schools, in the c~hurches-in all the sets
n 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 we'll as the attendants at
the bath house soon 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
pleyions are too pale or too sallow seek
there color and clearness. The pimpled
face expects to grow smooth. the flushed
face pale-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 Endor have 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
"a personal magnitude in this city never
fails TO send its ample supply of daugh-
ters for a douche and a pounding every
Thursday; but pounding only seems TO
make them mor pulpy. Then there are
three thin sisters who 80 to gain sym
mctry; ana three other sisters who have
the natural rotundity and ~rosiness Of
stocky girls only n generation removed
from the farm life of their mothers pa
rental precincts, go for-well, for what?
Perhaps to get elongated: perhaps To &C
quire n little GENERALIZATION heaven
knows for what-perhaps only for the
fun Of it. Then there comes 9 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 II MAN ALARM.
The mother of nine children, whose
friends tell her she doesn't look a day
older" (than whom or when?), come reg
ularly, and says, Its the Turkish bath
does it," The phrase may be a little
promiscuous, but it seems TO be under
stood by her friends and iellow bathers.
After her will come q beautiful matron
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 keep
her at home, and wind up by saying she
looks younger than ever, and she says, 1t
is all the Turkish bath.
Then a widely known teacher, wise
and learned. will be heard telling a pale
little Dante oma that nothing so helps
to clear the brain and put spring into the
vertebra and make keen the nerves,
which, u~nclogged, aid all the faculties
to digest the learned dissertations of the
doctors now expounding doctrines OF the
flesh and the devil as given forth by
Goethe at the guild rooms Of ST. Georges,
as a thorough massage of the physical
woman.
A su!fragist, tossing wildly on a hard
couch near by. from which she a see
the clock, whose warning hour hand
stands at half-past 12, notes the fact that
1--WE must all be getting out of here pretty
soon for those selfish men, who want the
place at / o'clock. When m can
vote Wen change all this" 81 hope you
won't vote to let the men In during the
women's hours" exclaimed the Mortified
woman Of calculus and bellies lettres.
mo! wait till | get my corsets on, cries
a beauty from her dressing room who
has only heard ''men" mentioned, and
she Immediately applies the rabbits foot
to her cheeks, ties down her lace veil and
goes out with a last injunction to her
bather to take care Of my terry blanket
and things"-and with her face toward
the door to get the first glimpse of any
of those "horrid men" who may be COM
ing, she looks over the register as she
signs her name and reads therein a list
of the best known names in the city
st. Louis Republic.