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Identifier: chicagobydaynigh00vynn (find matches)
Title: Chicago by day and night
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: (Vynne, Harold Richard) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Amusements
Publisher: Chicago, Thomson and Zimmerman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rs patronize the baths! Farfrom it. People of unimpeachable sobriety in-dulge regularly in them for their health-givingqualities alone. In hot weather, when the cloth-ing sticks with disagreeable closeness to thebody, there is no easier method of cooling offthan a passage through this fiery, or rathersteaming, ordeal. Listen a moment and learnhow it is done. You descend a flight of stairs into a basementand enter the mystic portals. A colored servi-tor, almost nude, escorts you politely to adressing-room. The torrid atmosphere hasalready produced a feeling of enervation, and 129 you doff your clothes with alacrity. You thenwind about you the sheet with which you havebeen provided and emerge, giving all yourvaluables to a clerk, who deposits them in thesafe. You are then led to the hot-room, as itcalled, in which you remain as long as you hke.Hot? Well, rather. The senses become numbed and dulledunder the great heat,but the sensation is de-licious beyond descrip-tion. Lying full length
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on the couch, fairy visions float before the mind.Try to think connectedly and the effort will bea failure. The mind becomes a strange jumble,in which people and events, real and imaginary,mix themselves without volition of yours in akaleidoscopic mass of pleasant pictures. A 130 copious and wholesome perspiration breaks outat every pore. After awhile even the strongestof us has had enough of it, and another stageof the process is reached. The bather is now laid full length on a mar-ble slab, with a blown-out rubber pillow under hishead. A stalwart negro takes him in hand. Heis rubbed, pinched and pounded and kneadedwith a vigor that at any other time might beunpleasant. In the drowsy languor of themoment, however, it is all right, and when theservitor presently smears him all over withsweet smelling suds only to rinse him copiouslya minute afterward with a bucket of tepidwater the subject of the operation would notchange places with the king of Siam or anyother potentate of whom he h

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