The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-26
BATHS To TAKE
DOWN WEIGHT
Mud, Sand, Steam and Per-
fumery Dips to Take
Off Flesh.

| venting new baths TO reduce one
weight.
The old fashioned hot sand baths OF
| Germany are renowned. Recently a new
| bath was opened and several princesses
were invited to battle on the opening
Iday to give the establishment the neces>
| sary social standing.
| The sand was heated and the princes
| ses, clad only in the thinnest of muslin
| garments, were buried in it up to their
| chins. They sat until the perspiration
began to roll off, after which they were
released and rubbed down. A course of
two weeks produced a great change in
the royal compilations.
The latest means to reduce ones
weight is the soda bath. The patient
is immersed in hot soda water up to the
chin and she remains under the water
until the perspiration starts upon the
face, which means that the skin is
awake. The patient then gets out OF
the bath and puts on a flannel robe and
goes to bed to finish the perspiration
The soda bath may or may not be
healthful, but it certainly takes Oft
flesh. A woman who has just come
from Vienna, where the soda bath
dourishes, says that she took a bath
three times a week in a tub filled with
water as hot as her skin could pear.
In the tub there was half pound %
washing soda and a full pound of bicar
Donate of soda. The bath was followed
by a sponging with clear hot water and
a quick massage with a rough towel.
The fat seemed to spirit itself away
with this treatment.
Then there is the Chicago bath, which
was introduced by a German physician
as a substitute for the mud bath.
Il cannot advise the mud bath in this
climate" said he. There is not enough
dryness in the air. You will catch cold
and contract rheumatism. The bath for
reduction in the Chicago climate is the
hot water bath-the bath which invigo-
rates while it reduces
The German physician insisted that
the water be distilled and that it bs
softened with borax. He also asked
that it be a steadily running bath.
The patient was immersed in a tub of
hot water. Then as she became accus-
toned to the water it was gradually
made hotter.
In half an hour the patient found that
this, she took some violent gymnastic
Her weight went down half
a pound day.
When reducing the proper amount for
the average woman to lose is half a
pound day. Any more is injurious.
1.-The most important pound is the
first pound says a reduction specialist.
tAfterward it is a question of persever- |
ance.
Il find that it is not question of eat |
ing, nor a question of drinking nor yet
L question of exercise. 1t is a combi- |
nation of all these.
mo one thing will reduce the weight. |
It is also a question of temperament.
The woman who nags is generally
very thin. The easy, tranquil temper
ament is the one that puts on flesh.
When 1 reduce people I insist that
hey exercise, diet and also endeayor
o become thin. Unless a woman real
Y wants to get thin she will never do
20. It is largely a question Of will
oower.''
There are salt baths that bring down
he weight, but the woman who tries
hem should have a set of scales in her
bathroom. The trouble is that she may
educe too rapidly
The French have new reduction
ystem which is called the spice bath.
% make it one must have two ounces
f mixed spices, stick cinnamon, whole
loves and allspice. This is thrown
nto a tub and cup of sea salt is then
dded.
The hot water is turned on and the
ub is filled with scalding water which J
xtracts the essence from the spices.
he bath is supposed to bring out the
and steady the nerves.
The Queen of Portugal has bath I
-hich is said to be a wonderful thing
or the woman who wants to keep her !
lape. /
nd sweet herbs until there is a per- {
lmed mixture. Lavender flowers, [
yeet clover and rose leaves are covered
18th alcohol and cologne, half and half. c
Half a pint of this is thrown into a t
athtub and the hot water is drawn. +
his is done the night before and in g
lie morning the bath is ready. +
It is cold, yet only as cold as the
'om; it should not chill the skin. This Il
18th is excellent for the athletic wo, Il
an. Queen Amelie finds it a great s
of her youthful lines. a
The CZarina has a bath which she Is
insiders the best of all things for the n
red woman. 1t is also fine for the n
t woman, and the Czarina, fearing,
t, takes it almost daily. It is a bath a
hich any woman might take, for it is n
It costly. 1t is a very hot bath, and ie
lie must not stay in it too long. n
A pint of orange flower water is made "
ilky with benzoin The tub is filled
tn water and the milky mixture is OF
Tired in. 1t makes a very sweet p
1elling bath. Russian women keep
is bath hot by steadily adding boil
2 water to il.
The electric bath is one of the new
t things for reducing the weight. 1t
quite different from the medicinal
tbs of the same name and is electric
ly in that the water is heated with
electric coil. A tub Of water is
avn and some ammonia is poured
to it.
The electric coil is thrown into the
b and the water is heated in this
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