Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-06

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.s,z- bing departments. The
H~oF height of the luxury is
attained in several of the rival baths, and
our swell women are the customers who
make the business profitable. By means OF
a small tip and a large lump of taffy got
the mistress of the lounging room at a Turk
ish bath to tell us some gossip. According
to this mercenary long-tongue, Mrs. Lang
try is one of the most persistent bathers who
come to the establishment She might fail
to keep an engagement with some famous
trockmaker, but with her bathing mistress
never. But to let her talk:
AN EXPENSIVE BATH.
''It was a real pleasure to bathe Mrs
Langtry." said the woman, ''she was SO
beautiful. Most women take medicine
when they don't feel well, but Mrs. Lang
try took bath. She ordered the kind she
needed, and it varied according to her feel
ings Sometimes she would come here with
q book and sit for two hours with her feet in
hot water, studying part, and the steam
rolling up about her in clouds. The first of
these foot baths cost her $50 she told me,
and it was the only time l ever saw her
angry. She was suffering from sick head
ache, and she wanted the bath kept at a
certain temperature for full hour. While
was adjusting the steam she laid her book
aside, and did not resume it for half an
hour. In the meantime the vapor moistened
the leaves, the ink ran all over the paper,
and there wasn't legible page in the book
when she came TO open it. 1t cost her $50
to have the work copied. AT her bath
Mrs. Langtry always had me rub her down
with fine salt and alcohol to bring the blood
TO the serface and keep her from taking
cold. Many time l have kneaded her to
break up a cold taken the night before, and
I used to beat tattoo on her throat and a
rat-a-plan on her chest to exercise and rest
her vocal organs. washed her face, too,
by inches to clean out every pore, and L
steamed her hair and eyebrows and eye
lashes to make them grow.
LANGTRY's PRETTY FEET.
''She had the most beautiful pair of feet
/ ever saw on a woman: they were perfection
in shape and color; not small. but long and
every toe developed and as soft as baby's.
Her heels were the regular pin cushion pat
tern, and 1t was her boast that she never had
q skin blemish in her life, and didn't even
know what a bunion meant. For long
time washed her every day, sometimes
with a sponge and not more than a gallon of
water, and again with ton of steam and
dozen brushes, always finishing by spraying
her with violet water, rolling her up in
hot sheet, preparing cup of coffee and pro-
fecting her siesta from the slightest disturb
ance. L never called her by her name In
the bath she was known to us as Mrs. LIE.
She was very generous and exceedingly
kind hearted. She never gave me an ordl-
nary tip, but she would tell me to buy a
pair OF shoes, or a dress, and give me the
money to pay ior it. Then she often told me
how to take care OF nv health, what to eat,
and the incest way to get along with the
patrons. remember she once said that if
wanted to become popular 1 must first
please people, and then always give way to
them. First try to have my own way, and
then by giving up in time would gener-
ally get it in the end. 1 find it SO, too.
MRS. PoTTER's RARE PERFUME.
''Mrs Potter used to come here verv often.
She was nice, but didn't care for much
water. She never took the showers. She
wanted to be rubbed until her skin became
soft, then douched with Lavender water and
orris, and hand-rubbed again. 1 had to
many times she has gone into the cooling
room for a nap just 10 give my arms time to
Timber out again. l never could find out
what perfume she used, but it chung to
everything she had on, and l could always
tell whether she had been in, during nv
absence, by the smell of the sheets and !
towels in the linen basket. She was gen.
erous, and always gave me dollar to buy
O pair OF gloves.
When 1 asked if many ladies drank at the |
bath, she said: "All of them drink some |
thing. The stage women as rule call for |
mineral water. ginger ale or coffee, and the |
professionals ior claret and other light |
wines. As a rule l can almost tell the |
married women, tor they order champagne |
or a mixed drink, while the single ladies |
take glass or pint of claret and drop off |
to sleep. Would you like something for a
beauty sleep?"
Eyes; don't mind" I replied. "What |
would you suggest?''
well, claret is a healthy wine, YOU
know; but if you care to stay an hour I'll |
get you a cocktail
tried a glass of ST. Julian at so cents,
curled up in warm sheet, and fell asleep
a FASHIONABLE BACHELoR's HALL.
If there is anything that delights a New
York belle it is to get view OF a real, out
Snu-OuG Deau apartments. Inere is aQQl-
tional zest in it if the sight be surreptitious;
yet invitations to suppers, such as our swell
bachelors have taken a fancy to sometimes
give in their lodgings, are always accepted
with avidity. The party must be chaper-
oned, of course, to be quite right, and it
was so with the one which enioyed last
evening.
The Croesus' dining room was extempor-
lied out of the parlor. Usually he eats at
DelmonIco's or his club. The Croisis apart
ment house, the Knickerbocker, the Cum
berland and others have many suites that
{ keel this in size. Here are only two rooms,
but they are spacious to degree that is old
in these days of compactness. The
bedroom and drawing room are separated by
d passageway, out of which opens bath
room, wardrobes and storerooms. The bed.
room, hung with Indian silk fowered in
crimson and cream, has a canopied bed that
might do for monarch. Isn't it shame
that it should have no queen? The drawing
room, crowded with superb oak cabinets,
seems hall divan, for soft seats cushioned
in crimson plush are to be found on every
SIDE. There is one cabinet particularly in
teresting to connoisseurs. When opened it
is found to contain every imaginable liquor
and the newest and rarest glassware. The
owner has only to telephone to be served
with dinner or supper from a restaurant but
he keeps stocked with beverages. Thanks .
to his inherited wealth, he is entirely indie
pendent.
WHY SHOULD HE MARRY?
Yet mystifed mothers, chagrined chap
eroness wonder why the master Of Liberty