The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-17
QUEER BATHS.
For The Wealthy Immersion In
Wine Is Recommended.

The mud baths at ST. Amsnd-les- Faux
enjoy "a considerable vogue. The mud or
moor" rs composed GA "A peaty, DOGGY
turf, and although the period oi mn
mersions varies from haf an hour TO ave
hours. can be easily at the conclusion
of the bath removed from the skin. The
mud bath treatment is by no means "A
novel fad, having been IN use IA the four
teenth century.
For the wealthy the wine bath is recon-
mended. A recent circular sets forth it's
efficacy, and for such as are run down
recommends a 20 minutes stay In a bath
containing a hundred litres Of MalVoisie.
which can be used hundred times with
out losing fits invigorating properties.
Even then the wine need not be wasted,
for" says the circular, after the one
hundred baths the Malvoisie may be dis
titled, and the result will be found TO be
delicious brandy"
A devotee 20 milk baths was Beau
Brumme who. when prisoner for debt
| at Caen, used 10 have certain quantity
| left at the gaol every morning for that
purpose. The idea did not, however. or
/ iginate with this modern sybarite, for we
read that the Roman Empress Poppoea
immersed herself daily in asses milk,
and that when she travelled she was ac-
/ companied 10y 300 asses TO supply milk
| for tactical ablutlons.
Even stranger fads. however. are on
! record. Marie Antoinette was won't "a
bathe in a decoction OF wild thyme, laurel
and marjoram, made more invigoratine
! by the addition OF sea salt, while Isabel
| Of Bavarie immersed her fair body I'm a
! dlstillation of chickweed which was n
her opinion sovereign specific for tho
skin The honey from roses, ncor
Juice and the milky extract from greer
barley were likewise employed by Old
time beauties
John Law. Of Mississippi scheme fame
who was notable beau in the eaTh
eighteenth century, was great belt we
I'm the yolk ~ eggs. 100 of which wcr,
added 10 his dail- bath which was m2d
aromatic by certain carefully prepare,
scents and essences Al times. now-ver
he discarded this FOR tub of veal bro;h
thus anticipating In = way the pfescn
whim that recommends the application
~ thin layer Of veal as boautifcr fo
the complexion.
such halneal luxurios as these woul
evoke tho scorn of MIR. Dietz. Of In
Northwestern University. Chicago.
hardy athlete who has Introduced th
snow plunge 10 the notice OF his fellow
students This which can only ue 90
ioyed in winter. consists or divsstihg ones
self ~ ones clothing ,pd rolliuS abu
| iu the nearest snowdrlft The bcst tim
"a take The snow bath is jpst before "a
, firing 10 rest
Then. too there are baths taken with
: ont any reference 10 hygicne--mcrs frCah
Z OF ccccntriplfs. such = ore was tn
I -ndured Nv Mile 10 ~ knlir -afterwsr
known az the Comtcsse dc Grniit-wh
I 20 outwardlv express her humility. %
Z siste,, u'on having bath in tho vat,
that had been previously employed
2 iavinC "a herrars-H rcpiilsi,r act ths
: might have cost her dorr
: Far different the roothnth ndu'red
= hy the Frruch novelist Frederick sonli
2 on ono occasion he recoivcl in pavmci
: ~ ono ~ his poveisH vps Che 1r~t W
& une of les Memories lu piah'r' 20 %
francs an M louis d'~r Reside hinec
I 9th iov. he returned home and. emrt'
Z ing me nood NJ sold into footha n
eat With his raked feet immersed there'
J. for over hsN an hour rlecidlv omokin
the while the largest Of Havanas.