Show VAPOR BATHS IN LAPLAND LAPLAN Ii writers Writer 8 strenuous experience or of Cle cleansing ansin g process with being Bastinado ed in wide world frank ledges hedges I butler ler describes a vapor bath in the land of the lapps he says the bathhouse Is a small wooden structure generally situated some way from the dwelling house it Is divided into two compartments one to undress in while the other contains the oven which produces the steam the oven Is arched with large stones or pebbles and heated by a fire placed beneath undressing in the first room one enters the heated compartment after a short rest on a wooden form or bench which contains a place for the head tile the attendants come in and bathe you cold water Is thrown over the stones p and nd the hissing vapor soon sends up to tl cloud of steam the higher yousia you sit from the noor floor the greater the heat As aa more m r water Is thrown over the red hot tones the jhb vapor becomes so intense that on one can hardly breathe wo we were soon boon gasping for breath and covered with a profuse perspiration which Is aued from every pore of the skin hanging up in tho the room were tender branches or twigs tit in a green state and retaining their leaves dipping these in water the tha attendant began lashing and whipping me across the legs shoulders loins and back till my body seemed quite fredwith red with the switching the bastinadoing bastina doing over I 1 was then washed with a soft flannel covered with soap after which a jug of the coldest water was thrown over my head and body |