The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29

showing of their person, and it is not an
uncommon thing in japanese house to see
lady at her bath, or if you be a guest to
have one of the female servants come in
and offer to rub you down. Carter Harri-
son, OF Chicago, was much surprised at
THIS during his stay in Japan, and he
scalded the flesh off his Eat calves in jump
ing into the tub to get out of the way of
the Acknowledged beauty who came in TO as
sist him. | know a wealthy man in Wash
mgton who was travelling in Japan the
same time that l was, who could not get
enough of these hot baths, end who made a
number of trips into the interior
of the country in order that he
might have them with all their old Japanese
flavor. In many of the public bath houses
of Japan both sexes battle together, and on
hot day of July of August they splash
and play with one another as innocent as
our parents were before the fail In Toxic
and the other large cities of the empire the
foreign influence has produced an order
against this common bathing of the sexes,
but in the villages where such an order has
been made all the people have done is to
draw d string through the centre of the
bath vat, and the women and children are
on the one side while the men are on the
other. At famous hot springs in the
Japanese mountains, | saw both sexes hop
ping around together in the water splash
ing each orher and enjoying the sulphurous
fumes without thought that there was
anything indecent about their actions.
TIE sIAMEsE ARE so NEAR THE EQUATOR
that they have about the same hot weather
the year round. Every man woman and
child in Bangkok takes plunge into the
river at least three times day. OF the
100000 people in the city at least 800, 600
live III floating houses, and inasmuch as the
summer costume Of the lower classes con-
sists Of a garment about the size of a Turk
lsh towel 1t is not much trouble for them to
so in bathing. They battle on the steps of
their houses and stand up to the waist in
the water granting delightfully."- as they
pour bucket after bucketful over them
selves and their neighbors The Burmese
man and woman take bath every night
after dinner This bath is merely pouring
water over the person. Soap is never used
and particular care is taken not to wet the
hair. At New Years when the weather is
as hot as our summer these people have
what they call water feast, and at this
time the whole nation throw water upon
one another. All the pretty girls 90 out
with buckets and the boys have squirt guns,
and for three days there is nothing but
water splashing. The foreigners of Ran
COON also engage in this, and the Chinese
celebrate the feast with the rest. One
Chinaman rugged up hydrant with two
inch pipe during the last feast and as his
house was on the main street he had the
bulge, as 1t were. on everyone else. He
engaged a coolie TO work the machine all
day, aud as he was selling water works he
had good advertisement in addition to his
fun. 4 swell Englishman arrived in Bar
nah last year during the feast. He went
to call on one Of the leading men of Ran
COON, in tall silk nat and black clothes, and
was met at the door by girl with a bucket
OF water. The girl asked him in Burmese
as TO whether he was observing the water
feast and he supposing that she wanted to
know whether he had come to see her
father nodded his head, and with that nod
this whole bucket Of water went over his
silk hat and down the back of his collar,
completely drcnching him. During the
same time another party of Englishmen
were told that some girls were coming to
throw water on them. They had the SER
wants bring out the bath tue, and put 1t on
the veranda, and when the girls came they
got possession of the bath tub and splashed
the Englishmen until one of them rushing
in, seized one of the mai6ens and lifting her
dropped her into the tub. This was con-
sidered very inpolite and the young man
who did it suffered by receiving no further
attentions from the Burmese beauties.
in India it is sacred duty of the Hindoos
to battle once every day, and they can wash
away their sins while they are washing
their bodies. / have seen ten thousand
bathing at the same time at the holy steps
of Benares. There is, however, no fun
about the Hindoo bath. 1t is all religion
and the bather prays during the whole
time. Both sexes battle in the river at the
same time, but they keep their clothes on
and they do not mix together. The finest
bath houses of India are those belonging TO
the Raiahs. The Mahommedans have per-
haps the finest baths OF the far east aid
the Mahommedans of India spend fortunes
on their baths. The most costly baths O..
all Asia were those of the Mahommedan
kings at Agra and Delhi. In the great
palace of Ak5ar at Agra, there is a vast
bath room down under ground, the walls
of which are mosaic of many pieces of col
ored glass set with mirrors as big around
as your thumb nail These mirrors are
numbered by the tens of thousands, and the
whole brilliantly lighted must have been
dazzling in the spray of the fountains.
Here Akbar used TO battle with his KAREN,
and he reminds me of the Khedive of
Egypt who cooled himself by riding around
the lakes in his palace grounds, with his
fairest beauties, and now and then giving
one shove over board to see if she could
swim. j saw at Delhi in one of the palaces
of Shah Jehan. the man who made the pea
cock throne which cost $50, DOC, 900, bath
room which cost q fortune. 1t had room