The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-28
THE AGE OF LUXURY.
High Living az It Is Now Carried
on In New York
Money Il Free rs Wates-GoRgssas Hetels,
High-Pricsd Restaurants, Expensive
Carriages and Fine Clothing for
Those with aank Accounts.
lcorYR1eHn 1891

IcoPYR1cHA 1891
| The patient shampooer in the Turk
ish bath was laboriously rubbing my
joints, and talking vigorously at the
same time.
'Ten years ago." he began, ''only
few men thought it necessary to take a
Turkish bath. Now we have hundreds
| of regular weekly customers. men who
| do not believe they can be clean or
| healthy without them. Turkish baths
are no longer considered luxuries, but
| actual necessities. And in another re-
spect, too, men have changed their
opinions. They all want the best that
can be bought, and the greatest luxury
after a Turkish bath is to be rubbed
| with delicious mixture of alcohol and
some inofensive perfume. This makes
| the skin smooth and white, and leaves
pleasant odor."
At this moment the speaker sprayed
my body with some of the mixture and
renewed the rubbing. My skin began
to glow and 1 inhaled the delicatc
odor of violets, with just the pungent
suggestion of alcohol.
'Oh, yes," continued the shampooer,
"all our customers like perfumed baths,
for that's what we call them. Men arc
quite as vain as women and like all the
little accessories that go to make them
moro becoming. Now, SIR he said,
throwing q loose blanket over my
shoulders, ''you are clean and sweet
and can step right into the manicure's
and have your hands and feet fixed"
found this department in charge Of
a chiropodist who is famous in New
York for skill In eliminating corns and
all callous spots from the feet and cut
ting the nails Of the toes with such
dexterity that walking is positive
luxury. There were also present three
Young men seated at small tables, cut
ting, trimming and polishing the
finger nails Of bathers, and BARRIERS
were also busy shaving and cutting the
hair of men who desired to go through
the entire programme. The manicures
were polishing the finger nails of the
men and making them as dainty and
tapering as would French maid servo
my Lady Fair, on the night of her
0cDub IN SCClety'
Itmay not be generally known, but ID
it is fact nevertheless, that there are
over eight thousand men and women
in America that arc worth over a mill
lion dollars each. How many OF these
nre worth five million, ten million,
twenty-five million, fifty million, or
one hundred and fifty million dollars.
l do not know, but there are enough
men in New York who are worth from
twenty-five to fifty million dollars to
form very formidable body.
The statistics furnished by the vari-
ous commercial agencies show that the
past few years have been years of un-
exampled prosperity in America, but
particularly to those who have made
great fortunes and have come to New
York to take up their permanent resi-
dence. 1t will be many a day,
doubtless, before New York will
come to be regarded as the United
States. as London is regarded ell of
England, or Paris all of France. But
neither one of these cities contains as
many people who spend money as Law
ishly as do great many people in New
York. We have grown so big here Of
late that we have wiped out nearly all
the social lines. What Ward McAllis-
ter said about there being only four
hundred people in society few years
ago is not true to-day; for that society