The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-19
hose BATHS 10 REDUCE FAT
NEW YORK WOMENNOW FAVE TRB
VERY NEWEST THING.

| An SOrtS Of Other Baths, From Turkish 70
Electric Ught, Are Used for tho Same
Purpose-WateF Under Heavy Pressure
and Massage Prove Most Successful.
At this season Of the year to hear women
talking about measurements does not
necessarily mean the ever interesting TOPIC
| of dressmakfng and new clothes. Usually
It has reference TO something far mora
serious than thai. It meens that conf
dences are being exchanged o the sub.
jet Of fat and the waist line.
For 1t 10 { the spring. Of the year more
than at any other time that the woman's
waist measurement IN likely to be the least
satisfactory, due to q lack Of exercise and
Indulgence for three months or 80.
The remedy most popular now Is the bath
not the old fashioned Turkish bath, but
the newest fashioned kind, the hose and
massage baths.
The approach TO the new baths is lux.
urious. There are velvet carpets, easy
chairs, fine lace curtains In the waiting room.
There is a long row Of dressing rooms hand
so.nely fitted up. Down below are baths
With white marble. plate glass, the newest
patterns OF tiles and adjoining a room fitted
with apparatus used supplementary to q
certain style Of bath. The steam rooms,
the dry air rooms, tho electric light rooms
are of plate glass.
In this establishment the plan OF ~encasing
a patient in g coGinlikS arrangement lined
with electric lights Is not popular. Instead
Of that patients enter q small room, recline
at their ease In a chair, read a book II they
feel disposed In the glow Of PIG candle-power
lamps which give out 40 degrees Of heat.
Visitors for a specific purpose usually AJAX
TO see the head physician who, after a con-
sultation, knows exactly what kind Of bath
TO prescribe and how many Of them and
how often they must be taken. He writes
q prescription for the bath attendants
guidance and sees that 1t Is carried out
He keeps tab on q patients progress. Prom
ising that three inches will be subtracted
from a patients girth in a certain time,
he feels bound TO keep his word. and his
word generally is kept. Thu same super
vision is kept over patients taking baths
TO knock out a physical aiiment neryous-
ness, stomach trouble. rheumatism.
at is our aim,' the physician said, to
give here almost every kind Of bath which
can be had the world over. To that end
l have visited all the famous baths Of the
older countries. Neither in Paris nor
Vienna, l find, are the bath establishments
fitted up as deliberately as they are over
here, but up TO this lime they have given
a much greater variety Of baths and, 90
q rule. better attendance.
As a rule the New York woman Of means
eats too much and exercises too little.
Often she doesn't want TO exercise, there
fore she takes baths instead. The same
thing is true OF men, u men don't worry
30 much about an inch more or less Of waist
or hip measurement so long as they feel
good. In woman's case that inch more or
less ia a bugaboo. Many Of our customers
60 no further than 70 a every now and
then a Russian or Turkish bath. and this
class of visitor i don't see much Of; but
there Is a surprisingly large number WIN
come for a specific purpose which a Russian
bath alone will not reach. The majority Of
these are women and most OF them want TO
lose fiesh.' ,ry
A pretty woman OF ample proportions
came up, spoke TO the doctor and sailed
out TO her carriage.
THAT lady is taking q sixty days course"
she hopes to have reduced her waist. hip
and bust measure several inohes&. YeAGl
think ehe will do IL. but IN order to GetptakRt
result 1 am obliged 10 change her baths
frequently.
a hose and massage bath once a day. the
result was a loss Of half a pound in weight
at each treatment and a noticeable shrink
age in waist measurements. Then she
stopped losing and Immediately | changed
the bath to another sort, That had the
desired effect and the six inch reduction
aimed at bids fair TO be an accomplished
fact, In less than thirty days che patient
is three inches less in girth than when she
came here.
The hose bath. which just now is Saving
a big vogue with women requires two at
tendants The patient lies on a marble
slab and a stream OF water with a pressure
Of thirty-flve pounds is played from a hose
over that part Of the body most needing
reduction, a second attendant follows
this up inch by inch with a hard massage.
The pressure Is sometimes less than that
ought to be more, the doctor says, and no
ia taking steps to get a heavier pressure,
In some cases the hose is played from A
distance Of twelve feet. but these. OF course,
are not included among the beauty cases.
The sensation is not unpleasant ordinarily,
although the pounding Of the water and
the hard massage at the first trial leaSAs
one a trife sore and very tired-so tired
that half an hours rest on a comfortable
couch before dressing is almost neoes-
sary. At the second bath the pounding
Is less noticed and at each succeeding bath,
as fat gives place to firmer flesh. the sen
sation becomes almost pleasant.
But. dear me, nv course OF treatment
includes a lot more than the hose and mas
sage" confided a woman who is under
going the beautifvinR process so that she
can wear some Of her last summers gowns'
Il take in turn various sorts Of electric
baths. which are splendid for the com
plexion. and vibratory treatment AFTER
ward. Bit the hose Is the best OF all for
taking fat of spots"