The Washington herald., 1909-06-27
BAKING DOWN" FAD

must De prepared 10 take your medicine
215 degrees Fahrenheit. three degrees
above the boiling point. But there is this
difference: You must be baked, not boil
ed. says the New York World. And all
you'll lose in fifteen minutes-the longest
time any living thing can stand such
| temperatures just one solitary pound
This Is The new baking cure. which Is
hailed es the remedy for many Ills. IN
cluding corpulency and seniIity. The
stout becomes slender: the aged take on
new youth. Wrinkles fade awav and
paunches disappear. No wonder. then
that John d. Rockefeller's physician said
that he'd live 100 years, The STANDARD
on man has been baked down over and
over again IN a public bath and now has
ordered private baking plants installed at
his homes in Lakewood and Pocantico
! Hills. n. Y.
Can Gain or Lose Weight.
The most remarkable feature Of this
| process IS the discovery by DR.. f. II.
Gaudiner that this intense heat Increases
the weight OF those who need more
weight just as much as Il decreases the
weight Of those who are too stout You
can gain ten or twenty pounds as easily
as you can lose II.
| OF course. no human being could stand
fifteen minutes in boiling water al a tenn
peratare OF PIP degrees. The secret OF
this even greater heat-2l5 degrees-lies
in the total elimination or all steam and
moisture. Should by any chance. any
steam or hot water escape into the bak-
ing cabinet the patient would shrivel up
Ike cooked apple and IN a jiRy be a
Mt subject for the undertaken. But such
an accident Is impossible.
In the baking treatment heat Is admin
istered at 2l5 degrees. The absence OF
steam makes It impossible for the ambi-
tious man or woman 70 be scalded. The
dry heat Is applied for only thirty seconds
and Is hardly noticeable. Then the tenn
perature Is suddenly lowered 10 80 de-
grees.
The body at once saturated with per-
spiratiOn, and the blood vessels. which
have been expanded by the first applica- I
ton, drive out hundreds OF thousands OF
atoms OF dead or useless tissue Then I
the heat Is brought hack 70 2l5 degrees /
again and once more lowered. This keep. !
up for fifteen minutes. which Is about all /
the patient can stand. But once he OF
she steps cut of the cabinet there IS a
feeling Of having lost ten pounds, though I
the scales show but one pound OF.
In the Third Degree Room.
After such a course OF heroics the blood
vessels are heated and excited and the
pores OF the skin are wide open. Less !
than a minute after the patient emerges
from the cabinet she IS hurried 20 the
third degree" room where water IS
hurled from every direction al every tenn
perature under a sixty-pound pressure
Then comes a rain" bath. and lastly the
pounding room" Two women attend
ants pound. slap. and fairly punch the
patient FOR an hour before she f. re-
leased, and then she must run I'D and
down a ladder 10 take away any Stiffness
which might result from this Spartan
treatment
OF the three milIionaires. Richard Gro
ker Is the latest 10 be baked down. He
has taken twenty treatments. and has lost I
ten pounds
We'll" he remarked. as he glanced az I
the oven which had been carefully pre- 1
pared for him. what's all this?" Then I
he followed the attendants 70 the hot box 1
where half dozen blankets had been /
spread on the bench.
IT'S little too ;ow." said Mr. Croker. /
when he found that his head could not b 4
locked IN the Ia OF tee oven. as the box 4
had been built for a man OF Sfr Rocke- 4
feller's stature. This was soon renedied (
by piling more blankets on the bench.
When the oven door was closed two I
glass panels revealed the white rohed (
body OF the Squire Of Giencairn: only /
his head protruded from the box. The I
leak between hts neck and the hole
which contained it was plugged with an
other towel
Heat Is Turned On.
Another towel. which had been
drenched. was wrapped around the pa
TENTS head Ike a turban Then the
heat was turned on. At first Mr. Croker 4
was impatient but It did not take him /
long 70 settle down and 70 wonder how
high the quicksilver IN the Thermometer
would climb before the heat would be .
turned OF
The attendant asked It he could stand .
any more heat
Sure" said Mr.. Croker.
The mercury promptly began climbing 4
10 the ZSth degree. TIE grIzzIed beard 4
under the turbaned head began 70 assume /
a threatening attitude and the attendant
did not care TO take any more chances
So he turned a switch. which shut OF the .
heat. and at the same time illuminated
the inside OF the hot box When Mr..
Croker removed the sheet IN which he .
had been wrapped the reaction OF pro
fused persperation was noticeable. while
he was perspiring. more than he ever
expected. the attendant turned 10 the /
preparation for the water bath and the /
ice bath, which follows the hot box"
100 SozEIeS Played Upon Mr.. Croker.
Having been thoroughly baked. Mr.. 4
Croker was ready for the next sensation. /
Dripping with perspiratlon he stepped
into the room OF a hundred nozzles. As /
he stood on the rubber mating he he
came filed with suspicion when :he Two /
big nozzles were directed toward him. /
Both were OF the regulation FIRE hose
size.
BE careful not to turn on too much 4
water" he cautioned.
Before Mr.. Croker had time 70 think 4 I
mist filed the room and heavy clouds OF /
steam came out OF the lattice floor. As ]
the steam lifted a hundred needle lets be- 4
gan playing as many streams at a tenn
perature OF 10 degrees. Nor was this all 4
The circular bath was started and more 4
than fifty streams OF ice water began 20 I
spout toward Mr.. Croker The alternat- 4
Ing heat and freezing made him a BIZ
peevish, but there was no escape. and he 3
had TO submit TO the treatment which f.
had been ordered by his physician before \
he left New York
As Mr. Croker trembied under alter
mating streams. the water began 10 reach
an even temperature and IN a few minutes
was shut on entirely The clouds OF /
steam rolled out Of an open window. and
Mr.. Croker felt relieved that he had
passed through without mishap He had
hardly recovered from the effects OF the
needle baths when he was ordered 10
face the two big n0zzIes which are