St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-04
Eva GAl lAkESAbAlH
And Details the Modus Oper-
andi OF the Sham
poo.
Steamed Like an Oyster to
Improve the Complex
ion.
The Fat and Slender Divin-
tiles in the Cooling
Room.
The Fat Want to Get Lean
and the Lean to Get
Fat.


steam and shampoo bath, perhaps it
will put me in better humor, quoth my
friend Madge, last Tuesday morning,
as we sauntered through the Nicollet
avenue dry goods stores and found
shopping regular bore. 1t was too
early in the morning to watch the antics
of the veteran shoppers, and the clerks
seemed not to have had time to get the
kinks smoOthed out of their temperS.
They didn't care whether we bought
anything or not. We didn't either.
do come, Eva" urged Madge, ''this
is ladies' day, and it's so early that the
attendants will have lots of leisure to
wait onus. You'll feel like new per-
son afterwards"
This latter bit of information decided
me. My ordinary self gets to be such
tiresome and uninteresting piece Of hui
mainly that any process would be wei
come, if it resulted in making me seem
to possess a new personality. We
tripped gaily up HennepiD avenue, and
found number of other ladies bound
for the Same Mace. The bath rooms are
In the basement Of The big hotel. De-
scending short iron stairway, we en-
tered sort of outer veil to the sanctu-
ary-a little room neatly furnished,
having BARRIERS chair ard mirrors for
those wishing to nave their hair dressed.
A card Oh the door forbidS admission to
members of the sterner sex. Several
ladies sat around looking at each other,
waiting for some one to start toward
THE LOWER REGIONS.
where the bathing facilities are located.
My friend had been there before. and
led the way down another flight of stairs
to large apartment, whose heavy. dark
furnishings and luxurious coucheS re-
minded one of Oriental apartments.
Several cOucheS were occupied by those
who had finished their bath Some
walked about the room, draped in loug
sheets, which outlined the form some
thing after the fashion of Greek cos
tune. Only it's SO hard to make an Or
binary woman seem classical and artis-
tic. The thin women looked like sticks
dressed up for scarecrows. One look at
them would surely scare a crow or
any other specimen of the ami
NAL creation. The plump women
ambled about like animated puff
balls with human head attachments.
The poetry OF motion doesn't count
when woman has to manage costume
consisting only of a sheet which dis
plays almost a fiendish pertinacity in
Sliding off at the shoulders and curling
about her unwary feet.
A pre- Y brunette, wearing bathing
suit of red flannel trimmed with white
braid, came forward and led us to
drawing room.
"Do you really have to disrobe to take
80 h,,+I 40. obi Il n III
little woman who came down stairs
after us. Nj
"Yes'm," gravely. replied the attend
ant. The little woman stood at the
bottom of the stairs for moment quite
irresolute, but finally walked across the
room with that do-or-die expression
which the old masters loved to portray
on the faces of martyrs. However,
saw her about an hour later looking as
if she had enjoyed the performance.
The tragic expression had vanished,
giving p. a ;e to one of supreme content
ment.
mo. we won't take aTurk sh bath"
answered Madge to meek suggestion
of mine.
Well take one to improve the COM
plexion. You ought to appreciate the
advantages of that" she said, with a
sidelOng look at me.
Tve noticed that when your friends
tell you disagreeable things they are
nearly always true, and a glance at the
mirror convinced me that the hint
about my complexion was quite justi-
fable, and perhaps meant in kindness.
Wrapped in sheets we proceeded to a
little room about four etsquare. The
walls and seats were of marble and the
ceiling of opalescent glass. Here the
steam was turned on until the air be-
came so clouded that we could no longer
see each other. [ was under the i'm
preston that the thermometer stood
about $50 deg, but the tube on the wall
said only ITO deg. A sponge saturated
with cold water and held over the
mouth is supposed to keep the victim
from suffocation during the Steaming
process, which lasts from five to fifteen
minutes.
l was quite ready to leave in about
better stay longer, because this is the
process which specially renovates the
complexion. 1t struck me as being
A HEROIC REMEDY,
and would have the bad taste to pre-
fer my complexion in its native rough
ness rather than suffocate while it is
being steamed to the proper degree of
transparency. Only one consideration
made me tarry. My Sunday school
teachers were always unanimous in pre-
dieting my future eternal residence in
that warm section which the catechism
says us prepared for the devil and his
angels" They always assured me that
my natural depravity would make es-
cape from this penalty impossible. As
] sat in the steam room the thought
came to me that this would be the best
place that ever came under my oDserva-
ton for serving a practical apprentice
ship to fit me to bear the discom-
forts of my assured future resi-
dence With some degree of fortitude.
So Madge staid for her COM
plexion, and l for the good of my soul.
After ages of torture the door opened
and an attendant told US to come forth.
She said we had been there but nine
minutes.
Then we were scrubbed off with tepid
soap suds and stiff brush; were sham
pooed with fine spray which pricked
the skin like multitude of tiny needles.
Then had another short seance in the
steam room. Put on rubber cap and
stood under shower bath, which is a
fair imitation of walking under Mime
haha falls during storm. Then the
attendants dried US with soft towels,
and tucked us up in feecy blankets on
pretty couch, and told US to stay at
least an hour before venturing back to
the outer world. A bath of this sort
ought to make person sleepy, but l
somehow missed the proper effect for
while. | never felt more widely awake
nor so restless. Madge curled herself
up and was soon sleeping as sweetly as
a cheruD. She didn't look like one, be-
cause the steam had taken all the curl
out of her bangs, and they hung quite
limp and straight across her forehead.
1t was interesting to see all the
DIFFERENT TYPES OF WOMEN
who came there for health or beauty. A
group stood around the big Standard
scales and compared their weight with
that of preceding weeks. The slim peo-
pie were trying to gain adipose tissue,
and the plump people sought just the
opposite result. Society ladies came in
from Minnetonka to get the freckles