The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-05
BEING BAKED.
How It Feels to Stand 2e5 Degrees
of Heat.
New York WORLDLY

(New York WORLDLY
"Oh, yes. I'm nicely roasted every
/ day" joyfully said Miss G. Dawson
call is roasting or baking as you
/ please" Miss Dawson continued. I've
/ stood 295 degrees of heat and enjoyed
! every minute of il. It's real nice: may
I be you don't think so, but it is. know
1 could stand fifty degrees more and
/ enjoy it,
/ 1t may be stated that a bakers oven
| that turns dough into bread and rolls
/ and pies, is usually heated to 200 de-
/ grees, also that a reporter saw a male
1 patient being baked yesterday in the
oven scientifically known as a "Sprague
/ thermOstat' When the temperature
/ to which the patient being treated was
! exposed rose from 100 to 100 degrees,
( the room in which the oven stood be-
! came uncomfOrtably warm
Miss Dawson went on to describe The
/ process Of baking men and women.
You remove all your usual cloth
/ ing, she said. 'tand put on a garment
| something like a bath-robe, something
/ like a Roman tOga- Sometimes flannel
I is placed over any portion of the body
/ the robe may not cover.
! When you are fastened in the Their
mOstat and the shower bath of heat
/ rains on you, for a minute it really
/ feels a little chilly. Then you know it
| is-well, It is not chilly But you don't
/ notice anything extraordinary. You
1 know that yor are warm and that you
/ perspire, but you don't begin to feel
! as uncomfortable as you do on a New
/ York street on a scorching, humid Au-
gust day
But what is the after-effect Of be-
/ ing baked?"
Il feel rather tender afterwards. >"
/ said Miss Dawson, laughingly. But
that is because the baking benefits me.
For twenty-five years infiammatory
rheumatism has made me almost help
/ less, and some of the best physicians
/ of New York, Boston and Nova Scotia
have failed to cure me.
I've been baked but three weeks.
/ Now, you see, I can walk and easily
move my arms and legs. Really, 1 like
to be baked.
This oven for women and men, the
! thermostat. is a big cylinder, the upper
half of which can be raised go that the
! person to be baked can be placed in it.
On the bottom of the cylinder and
against the sides of the lower half are
strips Of thick rubber about one and
one-half inches apart. The space be-
tween them is dotted with perforations
of the diameter of lead pencil
Rubber cushions are laid at each end
Oh the cylinder. over these canvas
and sheeting are spread. On these the
patient, the human pie, is laid The
patients head and feet, which project
from the ends of the cylinder. are en-
cased in what looks like the larger hal
yes of two cloth megaphones. air tight
at the cylinders ends fastening around
the baked ones neck and covering the
feet When this is accomplished the
cylinder is closed, the heat turned on
and the baking begins.
The cylinder rests directly on a gas
stove with six long and narrow cutters
that fill with flame when the gas is lit.
The heat generated passes into the
jacket Of the cylinder. and through the
perforatiens into the cylinders inter
Tor.
The inventor -of the thermostat claims
that by being rJasted in it thin people
/ become fat and fat people thin His
theory IS that the vapor thrown off in
the intense perspiration carries with it
the poisonous materials that cause dis
ease in the patient or a change in his
normal standard condition