Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...swelter here in dirt and in wretchedness when the pure delights of the Turkish bath await us in the adjoining city? How great is the advance of American civilization when the choicest luxury of the pampered Oriental is brought to our very doors! The other day, after groaning for three hours over a tough annual, I was struck with an unusually brilliant idea: I would take a Turkish bath and come out an altered...
After a change to a more unpretending style of raiment, I again entered the dusky room, and thence, together with a fat old gentleman, I passed to the first bath-room. The other-world feeling was at first too much for me, and I sank into a chair and gasped for breath, while the fat old gentleman smiled sarcastically. He explained that he was an old bather; had taken a bath every week for years; had got rid of several diseases already through its means, and was now trying it for baldness. He seemed not to mind the heat...
...Rose at 5 A. M., took a cold bath, and studied till Prayers. Squirted in Latin. Six hours at the Gymnasium. Bed at 9 P. M. How glorious is this new sensation of perfect health...
...Given up my cold bath, as I find I can't get to Prayers if I take it. Lost six pounds in weight...
...would see the work begun. It is proposed to raise the roof of the dressing-rooms to double its present height, and to place the office, dressing-rooms, etc., on the second floor. This change would almost double the space for apparatus on the ground floor, and ventilators and bath-rooms could be easily arranged. The Government must too well appreciate the importance of a first-class Gymnasium to allow it long to remain in its present cramped and uninviting condition...