The morning call., 1890-07-21
THE RELIGION OF CLEANLINESS.
The Kind of Figure Admired by
Men.

The Kind of Figure Admired by
Men.
The religion Of cleanliness is certainly
approved by the fashionable women of TO-
day, if her attendance at the Russian bath
may be taken as an evidence of faith. The
smart girl gets up on Saturday
morning about half-past s o'clock, has
a cup of coffee. puts on her tailor
made frOck and round hat, and, ac-
companied by her maid, starts for the
bath, reaching it little after O'Clock.
The duty of her maid consists simply in
the dressing and undres sing Of her, for
from the minute she is attired in the art
istic sheet she becomes the property of her
favorite rubber-usually some great, big,
strong woman, who manages ner as II sne
were little baby.
BY the time she is in the steam-room a
bed formed of blankets has been arranged
on one of the marble shelves, and Made
moiselle stretches herself out there, throws
aside her protecting sheet and lets the
yapor meander over her, opening the pores
of her skin and making her feel delighted
with her own flesh. She stays III this po-
sition about twenty-five minutes, the rubber
coming to her once or twice to ask her II
she wants the steam hotter or II she would
like a glass of wafer.
The vapor seems to have the curious effect
of loosening the tongue of the average
woman, SO Mademoiselle lies quietly on her
couch and looks and listens. She glanceS
at group of English girls, who have skins
like alabaster, and who, looked at from the
standpoint of an artist of the nude, are
handsome to the waist, but below thai are
badly shaped, their ankles being heavy,
their feet fiat and their hips too small.
Now it is time to be scrubbed and the rub
Der lifts my young lady as If she were
baby; she's stretched out on the marble
slab, scrubbed with soap and hot water
bar hood IN hpr hpp1s unfIl her skin
is tingling and glowing and she feels as if
she could challenge John l.. Sullivan. A
lemon is cut in half and used in place of
soap or cloth about the neck and under the
chin where the dark furs worn III the
winter may have left mark. MademOiselle
stands under the shower, which be-
gins to run as hot as was the water used for
scrubbing her and gradually grows as cold
as that which is in the tank. Flushed and
excited she is quickly rushed into the room
where the needle spray is and 1t Is made to
play on her bust, neck and arms. Red as
lobster Mademoiselle stands on the scales
and tips them at 131 pounds, and then she
is rubbed down dry, taken in and put on
couch, after which she is given thorough
massage with alcohol.
This is the rubber's chance to talk to her.
and this is what she says:
81 will tell you what the gentlemen think
of a lady's figure. You see my husband is
a rubber and l just got him to ask one of
the really gay men about town what he
considered a beautiful figure. and this is
what he said: "A woman who is very large
is not artistic. The figure that is most
pleasing is slight, but not bony; the feet,
ankles and bust must be small;
the calves, thighs and hips large.
well-formed and firm; the neck full,
the head small and set we'll ON the shoul-
ders, while the arms must be well-shaped
and tapering to the hands, He asked him
then which he thought gentlemen liked
best, blondes or Drunettes? And he said:
Natural blondes always; blonde is more
intellectual and knows better how to please
man; she is less affectionate, but she
doesn't weary him to death; statistics prove
that more brunettes marry than blondes,
but experience proves that men are not al
ways fondest of their wives IN. Y. Her.
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