The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-04-20

to rest and with eyes half closed have their
finger nails manicured. Others take them be-
cause they think them healthy, and others for
beautifiers, or, as the ShampoOer Tillie told
Arabella, ''Some takes 'em, Miss Ar'bella,
cause dey's ugly, others cause dey's pretty,
others cause dey's fat and wants to get lean,
others cause dey's lean and wants to get fat,
some for lumbago others for neuralgia, an |
don't know what dey don't take 'em for" And
as these baths are taken for every reason in the
world, every sort of people take them, from the
shop girl, whose thin checks show hard work
and poor food, to Mrs. High h-and-Mighty, whose
thin cheeks show indulgence in rich food, lack
of exercise, and late hours. In the hot room
there is place for four or six people, and the at
mosphere, no matter how sultry, is never ener-
waiting enough to make conversation impossible,
Weighty discussions rarely INDUCED in.
They not possible with the thermometer
registering over a hundred. Gowns and hats
are favorite subjects, but the aches and pains of
the bathers are the popular topics and given
precedence to above all Others. The most
amusing thing in the world is to see woman
in the hot room who has never taken Turkish
bath before. She gasps and pants and pants
and gasps, and is sure she will faint, and is sure
she will die dozen times before the shampooer
is ready for her After the scrubbing and the
rubbing and manipulating has taken place the
patient is put on a lounge, blanket tucked
about her, and she is left to rest, and then are
heard little sghs of content, little grunts of de
light. Sometimes a low-toned conversation
takes place, but generally every one is glad of
quiet and drop off into beauty sleep, which
refreshes both mind and body Most of the so
ciety women who go to the bath deliver them
selves over TO the manicure and the hair-dresser
while they are taking their rest. The manicure
makes the fingers up after the most approved
style, while the hair-dresser doctors the scalp
and brushes out the hair so that it may take on
the gloss which is now fashionable. After an
hours rest the patient dresses herself and goes
for a constitutional if she is trying to reduce
herself and if not she takes her dear intimate
to the Shoreham, and they pick at a spring
chicken, eat oysters, and drink Extra Dry.
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1t is curious what absurd ideas children have
about religion, and where some of their ideas
come from. l heard little boy the other day
taunt playmate because he did not say his
prayers. "Well," said the little boy who had
been teased, and whose mother is an agnostic
81 guess Pm all right, for my mother don't say
her prayers, and she is gooder than you are, and
she amt afraid to go in the dark, either"
Little Henry, aged three, has a negro nurse who
has been inculcating him with some of her re-
ligion. A few mornings ago, on making his
appearance in the breakfast-room, he said; "say,
mamma are you living for this world or the
next" Mrs. -- was staggered for a mo-
moment, but as soon as she recovered herself
said; "Why, my darling, just now think am
living for this world" "'Ooman," (" said little
Henry solemnly, "you had better pray, and
pray hard, if you want to be sheep and sit on
the right hand of God" Franklin was enter
tanning his mamma, who was i'll, with a long