Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-06-06
THE TURKISH BATH.
AN INSTITUTION THAT 10 PoPu-
LAR WITH THE LADIES.

Wemen VINE Aaih@ To Increase Their
weight, and oths1 who no the s@ms
% Make Thenas.ives Thinner--I.aal@s'
Day ., . 81 Loni. hath House.
While 81. Louis cannot boast OF any
Turkish bath houses marked by Parisian
or even Levantine luxury and elegance
ne to fittings and conseniences. she can
claim 10 have n large contingent Of fresh
looking. handsome women who give full
credit 10 the beautifying influence Of
regular Turkish baths. All the public
Turkish baths have ladies Days" and
the register of the leading establishment
yields on inspection long list OF names
Of ladies' prominent In society, In the
schools. In the churches--in all the sets
and circles of the body social OF our city
On ladies Days" this bath house can
hardly accommodate the crowds Of
maids, matrons. children and school
girls that are its regular customers.
HAvR THEIR REGULAR DAYS.
The visitor as well rs the attendants at
the hath house soon learn to look for GER
tain classes on the same days OF each sue
cessive week. Those who come by order
OF their physicians, OF for some special
physical ailment. are generally promptly
on hand Tuesday; society women who
come to recuperate their expended
strength and for beauty baths, favor
Thursday as the off day Of their week.
when the gayeties pause for breath and
one Is less likely to miss something" on
that day. Saturday Is the teachers day.
when they may stop to shed the dead
skin OF their spent forces and relax the
taut muscles of discipline on the slab
where the spray soothingly falls on the
just and the MUST alike, for most often.
too, some OF their recalcitrant pupils
come in gay. noisy little shoals and make
the corridors ring with their laughter and
little screams of merriment.
The faith of many women In the vir-
tues Of the Turkish bath Is limitless.
Those who are too thin believe that they
will attain the plumpness of their stand
ard Of perfection by continuing the
baths. Those who groan with flesh think
the bathing and the rubbing viii make
the burden roll away; those whose com.
plexions are too pale or too sallow seek
there color and clearness. Tho pimpled
face expects to grow smooth, the flushed
face pale-in sooth. they think the Turk.
ish bath the real fountain OF eternal
youth and beauty. Women as ugly and
old as the Witch OF Endor have parboiled
themselves until the sap Of life has left
their skins like parchment, and they
have finally dried up and blown away
on the way from their tri-weekly trips
10 tho Turkish baths. where they hoped
TO grow fat, fair, and 40 at least. when
scragginess and the seventies had seized
them ten years before.
One entire fat family of social as well
as personal magnitude in this city never
fails TO send its ample supply of daugh-
tiers for douche and pounding every
Thursday; but pounding only seems to
make them more PUPPY. Then there are
three thin sisters who go to gain SYM
metry; and three other sisters who have
the natural rotundity and rosiness Of
stocky girls only one generation removed
from the farm life of their mothers pa.
rental precincts. go for-well, for what
Perhaps TO get Elongated perhaps TO &c
quire little liberalization - heaven
knows for what-perhaps only for the
fun of it. Then there comes q tall girl
neither too thick nor too thin, too rosy
nor too pale. and. as Is natural, she in
clines TO the stout, short girls, and they
compare notes on the advantages Of
Turkish baths.