——— LUXURIOUS BATHING. NEW YORK WOMEN ADOPTING CUSTOMS OF ANCIENT ROME. Turkish Bath Parties With Dainty Lunches and Flowers Now Popular | Among the Rich and Fashionable- Most People Want te Improve Thei Complexions, —— » The Turkish bath habit has won a place among the fads of the New York woman, and appears to be run- ning neck and neck with the woman's club as a time consumer. At least, that is the impression one obtains by frequent visits to certain well-kmown Turkish baths for women. For more than a year, this particular establish ment has given New York the distine- tion of possessing the finest baths for women in the United States; and, in that year, the proprietor's knowledge of feminine character has been justi fied, “If a thing is to take with women who have money to spend, it must be chic.” he said, and he proved his point by. changing the Turkish bath for wo- | men, which was, formerly, rather a forlorn performance, to a luxurious function, with numerous Incidental op- portunities for self indulgence and money spending. He didn’t lose any of his asceti¢ worshippers of cleanli- ness, or his rheumatic and nervous pa tients, and hié gained a carriage clien- tele that makes the street in front of the baths suggest an afternoon recep- tion or an matinee. it was a social {pnovation much commented upon several years ago that gave the philosophical proprietor his suggestion. A well-known woman gave a Turkish bath party at his old establishment; and after the bad gone on to a dinner and dance, and the bathrooms were deserted, the dens ex machina entered, sat down among the scattered flowers and violet scents, and lost himself “in utlish thought.” When he came out of the trance, he said to the pier glass: “Why not more Turkish bath parties?” The pier glass, having seen a great many surprising things that evening. didn’t offer any argument, and that's how it all e¢fme about. "hie old were torn out. Marble and onyx and nickel plate replaced tin and iron and lead in the plumbing. Hard wicker and leather and iron cots gave way fo luxurious divans; velvet carpets and oriental rugs and tiling shoved aside otlcloth, Effective bangings, soft lights and mirrors were scattered about promiscuously. ‘rivate with accommodations for luncheon parties were provided, Then the wo men were left to do their part, and they did it. Now Turkish bath parties are as common as matinee parties, In deed, the two go hand in hand; for, every Saturday morning. the bath- rooms are filled with women who come in groups of two or three or four take their baths and massage. have their hair dressed and their nails manicured, and then, appropriate the divans in one of the private rooms, rest and gossip, have luncheon served to them, and finally make leisurely toilets In time for the matinee. Sometimes, the | party is a mutual affair, and each | member pays her own expenses; but | the same people meet at a certain hour each week. More often some one wo- | man entertains the others, and the en. tertainment is elaborate, according to the hostess’s inclination and income. | The matinee girl may merely give her | friends Turkish baths and chicken sal ad, or there may be huge bunches of violets on the pillows of each divan, | and an epicurean luncheon served on the little tables. Flowers have be. come quite a feature of the bath. | There was a time when a Turkish | bath was something occult and mys terious, referred to only in whispers, and indulged in with sensatious of | guilt: but that time is past. So, if | a woman devootes a certain morning or afternoon each week to the Turk- | ish bath her friends are likely to know | it; and it is quite the proper thing to send flowers to her at the bathrooms, | When she has been steamed and scoured and plunged and massaged and perfumed, she snuggles down upon a couch, with her violets or roses and dozes and dreams in an Arabian Nights sort of comfort; and the relaxation does more for her nervis than ali the tonics that could be prescribed for her. i According to the bath attendants, | however, the women think more about | their complexions than their nerves, A good complezion is the acme of ev. ery woman's desire, and there's a theory afloat to the effect that steam and water and massage, applied to the whole body, will do more for the com- plexion than all the cold cream and cosmetics on the market, Hence these bathers, “Nine out of ten women,” says a bath attendant, “come to us in the hope of Improving their complexions. They stay with us because their skins improve and because they learn to en- Joy the baths and depend upon them instead of medicine. We have almost all the actresses and singers. They bave to use cosmetics in their profes. sion, and they know the things will ritin their skin if not often thoroughly removed. So they come here and take an extra dose of the steam room. That opens the pores of the face and takes out all the paint and powder and that sort of thing. Of course those profes. sional people think a great deal about their figures, too, and the baths and special massage keep them in shape, and then, any one whose work Is a mervous strain needs just such relaxa- tion as the bath gives.” The number of children who go regu. larly to the Turkish baths is surpris- women Tooms rooms, ing. A large percentage of them are sent because thelr mothers believe it is good for their general health, and But still more surprising than the num. ber of healthy children sent to the baths, is the number of them taking the baths as a cnre for rheumatism “I don't know whether the condition ' gald the attendant, “or wheth- ame conditions have existed within the last few years, we have had a most astonishing num. ber of children, often not more than two or three years old, brought to us suffering seriously from rheumatism and nervous diseases, I'm inclined to think that a great deal of the trouble is hereditary, but one of our doctors insists that enine-tenths of it due to thin-soled shoes, irrational clothing, improper food and too much excite. ment, and that the cases are found chiefly among the wealthy, 1 give you that for what is ig worth. I don't know anything about it myself, ex. cept that the children are brought here, and that we almost invariably help them. Bless their hearts, [ like to work with them. The thing | hate about this business is the way the is as well as their pores. Three-fourths cept when they are under the cold shower. That's the only respite I get, and there's a great temptation to pro- long it. It's amazing that women will tell us the things they do about their personal affairs, I've reached the point where half the time I don't even hear what they are saying, and the rules are very strict here about re- peating anything told the atteadants, But if I should retire from business and write ‘The Autoblograhhy of a Turkish Bath Attendant’ I'd the town by the ears. We have possibly seventy-five here day, and fifty out of the seventy-five tell their attendants about everything they know. That book would make interest. reading.” — New York Sun, aot women every Enterprising Farmer Finds a New Use for a Farm Machine. An ingenious Faulk County farmer, named A. J. Wakefield, has found a new for thrashing engines which promises to the present method of transporting grain from the farms of South Dakota to the nearest market Wakefield, a day or two ago, idea that his thrasher engine would serve the pur pose of hauling his grain to Faulkton, the railroad point nearest his farm Accordingly, as an experiment, he hitched five wagons together, one be hind the other, and after loading them with an aggregatae of 400 bushels of wheat, coupled the thrasher engine to the string of on the journey to Faulkton. The trip of fifteen miles made in six hours, Wakefield had but one assistant of the unique features of the innova tion is that the thrasher engine is the same with which he thrashed his grain, Thus it serves a double purpose, that of thrashing as well as furnishing the motive power for taking the grain to Re revolutionize points conceived the wagons and started was {ne Wakefield conceived the idea from reading a newspaper article stating that farmers in Roberts County, Reo. were utilizing thrasher en gines for plowing raw prairie land. If ihe engines could be used for plow ing on unbroken land, why, he asked himself, would they not do still bet ter in hauling wagons loaded with grain over the comparatively smooth By his experiment he proof that such a of thrasher engines results successfully, During the passage of the curious use farmers living along the route tem porarily abandoned their work in or. Every. where on the journey the greatest in- and when the unusual procession en. tered Faulkton it attracted the atten tion of hundreds of the townspeople. Wakefield carefully noted the manner in which the engine hauled its load, on the experimental trip. Making Pearls Valuable, . Parisian jewelers are very clever in the art of “peeling” pearls. They will take a peari that is not pretty, remove its outer coat and reveal a beautiful gem within, A pearl is composed of alternate layers of macre and animal tissde, and the process of peeling is very difficult. The tools employed are ft sharp knife, various sorts of files, pearl powder and a piece of leather. The pearly coats are extremely hard and must be cut off piece by piece, the operator relying more on the sense of touch conveyed by the blade of a kuife than on the sense of sight. Pearls found imbedded in the wother of pearl of the oyster shell are made markets. ble by skillful treatment with acids. Experts know how to make pearls of any color, black by a bath of nitrate of silver, and by other chemical means they can turn them to rose color, lilac or gray. Pearls of these unusual tints brigg fancy prices, - Am Expectation Not Reslized. In demolishing the old Justice De. partment Building in Washington it was expected that some old justice stamps would be found, but none has been discovered. The Yankee Skipper Tells Him the World | Is Round, | i In the Century, Captain Slocum tells of the Spray's arrival at Cape Town, and of a visit to Pretoria, where he | met President Kruger, to whom he | sald he was sailing around the world, | This statement Oom Paul flatly con- | tradicted. I traveled the country over from Simons Town to Pretoria, being ac- corded by the colonial government a free rallroad pass over all the land, The trip from Cape Town to Kimber ley, Johanuoesburg, and Pretoria was a pleasant At the last named place 1 met Mr. Kruger, the Transvaal president, His Excellency received me cordialiy enough: but my friend Judge Beyers, the gentleman who presented me, by mentioning incidentally that I was on a voyage around the world, un- wittingly gave great offense to the ven. erable statesman, which we both re. gretted deeply. Mr. Kruger corrected the judge rather sharply, reminding him that the world is fiat. “You don't mean round the world,” sald the pres- ident; “it is impossible! You mean in the world, Impossiole!” he sald, “im- possible!” and not another word did he utter either to the pudge or me, The Judge looked at me, and 1 looked at the judge, who should have known his ground, =o to speak, and Mr. Kruger glowered at us both. My friend the judge seemed embarrassed, I was de lighted, for in those days | was fond of fun, and the incident pleased me more than anything that could have happened. It was a nugget of in- formation quarried ont of Oom Paul, of whose savings famous Of the English sald, “They first my «coat and then my He also said, “Dynamite Is the corner stone of the South one, else some are Lie took trousers.” frican Republi Only untivnking people call President Kruger dull, Loss of Lif: English have, happily, free from war of late Hist of casualties ment has surprise, that we are uot now fighting with sav age tribes, but with the most redoubt able marksmen in the world with the latest and deadliest that money can obtain, Keeping this in mind, the Elandslaagte are in Great Datties We RO the after engage painful public | It is necessary to remember been years that each occasions armed Wes pons losses at Glencoe and not, comparatively, heavier than recorded in many battles of the Franco-German of 1870, At Spicheren. when the Germans the French lost 220 officers and ing the attack Nt I1Sth of August Las Deen cal culated that 6.0006 men of the Pros sian Guard fell in the short space of ten minutes, further back to the days of smoothi-bore cannons and the Brown Hess, the casualty roll dur ing the Peninsular war was quite as heavy. At the siege of Cludad Rodrigo there officers and 1.200 men Killed wounded, 710 of these being struck down in the final assault During memorable as sanit of Badaloz the British loss was 3.500 out of IKON. engaged, and of these 60 officers and 700 men were re turned as slain, a record which would have satisfied even President Kruger's | thirst for slaughter. Later on. at San Sebastian, 1.716 British officers and | men were struck down in the final as. saunit of that fortress, If these figures were worked out so as to give the per centages of losses to numbers engaged, the result would show that the recent casunities were not greater than might be expected under the circum stances of the fighting.-The Fort. nightly Review those war stormed they Dar posit 4.871 men Privat, on Ons, ere on the ISTH, it Going often were 9K Or the Eagles and Thijr Prey. There is at the present moment at the Natural History Muoseum a model of the skull of an eagle gigantic that the imagination can scarcely fit it into the life of this planet at all The whole head is larger than that of an ox, and the beak resembles a pair of hydraulic shears, Unlike most of the giant beasts, this eagle, which inhabited Patagonian, appears from its remaing to have differed little in form | from the existing species, Its size alone distinguishes it. The quills of the | feathers which bore this awful raptor through the air must have been as | thick ag a walking stick, and the webs as wide as oar-blades, It could | have killed and torn to pleces crea. tures as large as a bison, and whirled up into the sky and dropped upon the | rocks the gigantic carapaced animals | of prehistoric Patagonia as easily as | a modern eagle of California does the | land tortoises on which it feeds, Even to<lay there are few carnivor- | ous animals, whether birds or beasts, | which have so wide a range of prey as the eagles. Like the winged dragons | of old story. they can ravage earth, air | and sea, and feed promiscuonsly on the denizens of all three elements, From serpents on the burning desert to seals on the everlasting ce, from monkeys in the tropleal forest to mar. mots on the Alpine slopes, from dead sheep on highland hills to peacocks in the Indian jungles, no form of fish, flesh, or fowl comes amiss to them, and the young eagle, driven by the in. exorable Inw of his race from the home where he was reared, finds a free breakfast table wherever he files, ~The Cornhill, Ray Understood the Motive. Mr. Newbow Bobby, you are a nice little fellow, Bobby Oh, come off; All o' sister's fellers gimme ‘at kind o' tafly.—Ohlo State Journal Sharp Practices in Golf. In regard to the sharp practices that ire sometimes resorted to in golf, this story Is of Interest, It is told by a re liable golfer ns a fact and Hustrates often at the cost of his employer's reputation and always at the cost of Lis own place if he is discovered, On this ocasion the player's ball was found lying behind a big stone in a The crafty eaddie gave the kick, accompanying the act The act resulted in the stone moved sufficiently to permit the golfer to find his ball in a playable position, a story of even deeper craft on part of a caddy, says, carvied with him a supply green-painted wooden pins, With these he generally waited until the light be when chance afforded him tunity, he Inserted the pins in the green in the line of nents put, As might be this often caused the gutty bad While the exasperated plaver would swearing at the wirlness of the grass at a favorable moment the caddy would put his foot on the drive them into the sod, thus destroy ing all evidences of his guilt, A tnin Scottish player Is said to trained his collie to push his an oppor. heads up his oppo- to take a pins oer have oppo New York Bun, His Bright Future. The Saunterer bappened to be din- ing with a friend other evening, and of the table's population included the inevitable S-year-old boy. The latter had fallen into a habit asking for all Kinds of things, being refused and i from the in the command, He later with a strenks and a bright Laccept-your apology smile on his face, On after the cursion, he suddenly conceived for i ¢ FOr ii, the Course how i going ing roo, obedience to third an bowl this evening, ex af foeotion the sugar nd prompt Ivy gave it up in response to the threat- His father waiting for f nn reached got it, a as hand of his mother, up usual outburst before he sent fing glanced casually, the him out but instead the child's face brightened and twinkled ith anticipa fioGn, “What Willie?” “I w-wuz lie, “1 T'm goin” to have when eve rs I» wis olue folyedide "hilad sriia his eyes w are glad about, asked his father thinkin',” thinkin' of you Wil nga answermsd winz all the in this house is dead.” mititi rep nauirer, Ruin in Scetisad, Fhere are few more phe in Dollar and no more lnteresting rain anywhere fturesana i r spots Scotland than Glen than the grim old castle of the Camp known in the olden time as Cas Once the castle be forgotten, It is pot only for adding might tjesty of the everlasting hills bells, tle will never beautiful to the Gloom. visited, situation, but it abounds with weird traditions that give the added charm of romance moonlight and y the walls of the castle gleaming white through the be filled with a mysterious feeling of awe, that is intensified by the rush. of the water in the deep, black chasms beneath. It is a scene to up lift the soul--a glimpse of nature in her wildest and most impressive mood and it is not surprising that every year an increasing number of visitors find their way to this most beautiful part of the Ochils.—Scottish American, To visit the glen by fo see bare trees, is fo Couldn't Die Any Too Seen. A Memphis paper tells of a married couple who are in the habit occasion- ally of going out at night to entertain. ments and social affairs, and at such times they make themselves solid with their little boy by saying that they are these social affairs came pretty fre On Monday night they went the theatre, and told the lad that a neighbor, and explained that they were going to give some medicine to the man that was sick. On Wednes- day night they proposed to attend an entertainment, and apologized to the plastr on the sick man’s back to draw out the pain. “Papa” asked the youth, “is the sick man in much pain?” “Very much, my son.” “And is he pretty near dead?’ “Yes, he's in bad The lad thought deeply for a while, and then remarked: “Well, * me, ——————— BC IA. A Novel Mail Carrier. A woman called at a house on La fayette avenue, Brooklyn, the other lady residing there. 1t had ben mailed the day previous, but the address was almost effaced, The woman explained that she had a young collie which was in the habit of picking up and playing with articles he found on the sidewalk. She had been out walking with him when she noticed that he was playing with a let. ter, which he had evidently found. She took It from him, and, finding that it had not been opened, she called at the addreas and delivered it, it was found about a block away from its address, and had probably been dropped on the sidewalk by a {etter carrier, The owner talke of getting a posi. tion as mall carrier for her collie, New York Times, NOTES OF INTEREST ON ACR CUL. TURAL TOPICS. Grafting Roses Ashes for the Aphis— Shortening th: Moultinz Period im portance of Careful Mifking, etic, etc. Crafting Roses. rapid growth and stronger plants than roses on thelr own roots It also ap- und The vitality of the flowers are produced blossoms are finer, plant seems to be greater. Ashes for the Aphis For treating chard, tobacco very effective, teed the or dust found In some sections wood in been root apliis lings results by the ashes are with good about ree ashes and then returning the soil. With fruit the general opinion that ashes can be applied freely with ont any danger of The effect of bone meal ix also beneficial trees it is injury Shorteniny the Moulting Period. When keep view they will the feeling moulting hens, the 1101 that the && the sooner they Sooner finish the pro iv careful feeding shortened im Pus which is quite an will, If she receives be more active and when she in full new plumage, It be over looked that fatal bare of feathers they are easily and then the Lien Comes out nust nat niso exposure is almost nearly chilled quickly ts eort Resin hens, Being to monlting sudden storm and cold, on bowels or even in croup If on a range the green food needed and fol, She will ned little or grain. but if let it mixture of ground oats and bran, equal parts, euch of adding a gill of linseed meal contains ments for producing feathe chief its oil by a rain which may result in cold th ile the hen will pick up also insect then io grain is used we 21 to quart mixture » lin all the ele the meal we} nearly at imparted by it is from vstsine off pping off § benefit which hastens the are feathers All oily them, especially nhstances sunflower seeds, The mixture may be given twice a day, allowing eat all that thes untarily walk when they the moniting hens to wish They vol tood will away from the are satisfied Why Raise Forage Cr ps? Forage crops, other than grasses and should grown beeause of the many benefits which they bring to rloy “re, wer those who grow them they may be made to supplement pasture crops that are more permanent, to thats say, perennial in cha when insufficient for aay Second the area of these is any produce plentifully may where other crops have failed to grow, or fail to many of CRUse Or causes they be grown as catch crops, Fourth, exercises a eradiea frequency with such & system influence of on weed because the they mature in their Fifth, it enables the farmer to when any other way vegetation And, sixth, it provides that may be plowed under grazed. Prof, Thomas Shaw, Importance of Careful Milking, The way in which the muiking is done ig of as much importance as the way in which the cow is fed. An un the best cow to go dry almost as ing. We like to thoroughly clean off the udder and teats by washing and rubbing dry before we begin to milk. This manipulation excites the action of the milk glands to some extent. but it is better to begin moderately at first and at no time exert too much pres sure on the teats in trying to force the milk stream more rapidly than the size of the milk passage through teat al lows. Once begun, keep steadily at it until the last drop is drawn. Main. taining a steady and continuous flow is of more importance than rapid milk. ing, and it is important to obtain all the contents of the udder, or all that may be secreted, partly because the last pint drawn contains about five times the amount of butter fat that is found in the first pint, and If this is left to be absorbed in to the ays. tem, there is a tendency to produce fat instead of milk, and the cow will shrink rapidly in milk production. We think the cow will give down her mik better, and give more, If she has food to be eating while she is be. ing milked, particularly if it is a grain feed, or something that she especially - Poultry Houses. The poultry house ix usually the most veglected building on the farm, and too many farms have no poultry j house worth speaking of, On this | subject The Farmers’ Guide publishes {the following: An article in a con | teuporary advises poultrymen not to | build large poultry houses, but rather | 4 great number of smaller ones, 1t is argued that where ope large house is { built the danger from poultry disease ix increased, We do not believe the ar gument to be an eoptirely sound one. If the poultry house be large there can { be different compartments, both in the The small house system so greatly increases the labor | hint farmer cannot con sider to say nothing of the far | greater gxpense necessary in the con With a large number of fowls the expense reduced to the minlmum, Not only so, but the work of keeping it clean and free from ver min is 80 much less in the large house that the work will be actually per. formed, while in the others it will be neglected, Permanent in | should pot be allowed. A {ix to have all parts of the roosts and | house nnd the yards, the ordinary them, struction in houses better way fixtures hen One good way construct The upright pieces that form the cross se tion of the may for the ends of the roosts, say, two-by-fours, We poultry that has such an arrangement, The horses are about bigh and each long. There are which more than in this and roost to be taken from the taken be treat- fixtures wade movable result two horses of any desired length to obtain this is to horses be grooved which can 4 made of know of be One Bose inches feet in each eighteen is» about seven five grooves horse, makes the a foot pace something apart. "The five roosts long ot Cane each twelve foot the five give When FOOKTS Ars over fiver ®ixty ing space the bouse is cleaned the and horses amd roosts EroOves of doors, an oft ed | where they « r way desired, The whole in- % then free for the work of and for of the droppings the brush or removing the th 15¢ of wo serubbing ORD Care in Feeding Millet, of make farmers feeding it. The opin raillet and The food unsettled status fas 2 should £1o0k- men care«ful in amoung feeders as to for greatly All it has the proper constituents to make it feed, and in fact this has been lemounstrated by chemistry, Bat it ims other effects that are not always The favorable and unfavorable a its value agree that ons food ary good opinions of it may very easily due to the varying stages at which it is cut, and also to the degree to which it has been cured, The foxtail millets are under suspicien, and there stockmen that assert that the feed- resulted more than we death of animals, when have been fed alone, This woes to be due largely to the indigest- most are them has gt ing of once in the millets the fibers when over be abundance of mat into balls in- and these balls 1: in from week to week tia they are large enough to cause me paction in the intestines, death result. ing ut that there ix something besides this that exists in the millets and that is of a barmful nature would seem to borne by careful examination Ly veterinarians. When hay iz taken from horses and millet substituted the result is noted in certain derange- mnt of the Kidneys. This is followed {in time by lameness and the swelling of the joints. It would almost appear from this that the irritation in the di- gestive organs ix sufficient to cause an accumulation of uric acid, which is perhaps the cause of the lameness and swelling of the joints, There is also {an infusion of blood into the joints | The texture of the bones is affected (to a large extent, and it is rendered | less cohesive and the boue is softer. { The effect is seen in the portions of {the bone at which the ligaments are jattached. Under a great strain, as in pulling a load, the muscles are pull od loose from the bones, No farmer should, therefore, expect {to feed his horses largely on millet | throughout the winter and expect to | have them in condition for work in {the spring. It is better, perhaps, not to feed millet to horses at all. Less evil effects are seen with other stock, though some farmers believe that abortion in cows has been caused by millet. This point needs farther proof. Millet, if properly cured, and when not too ripe or too Immature, is a fair feed to combine with other things. But care should be used in its feeding, as few reliable data exist to indicate its real effect on most of our stock. Farm, Field and Fireside. EE .. Moody.s Persistence. An uncle of Mr, Moody frequently told this story of the boy Dwight, which Indicates that the man’s quali. ible character of ripe. combined with 1 stiff Leards. stead of digesting, These crease sige be out
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