Show SIGHTS IN CHICAGO visit to a bath house GOOE COOK COUNTY MORGUE how the dead are oared cared forthe for the dissecting room correspondence I 1 visitors tora to the worlds fair are at once impressed with the excellent order aud and good prevails all over the big white city the two thousand columbian colombian guards are very atten bentive and notably polite and while there are two hundred handled thousand people on the arounds no one feels crowded crushed crashed slighted alighted or disinterested this ponderous undertaking is most truly a boon to this continent the men that are at the head should receive tle tie constant and earnest good will of all classes elss ses in one sense ense 1 it la is a glim plse into paradise le learning ming science and civilization that the middle class which constitutes three fifths of this globe would never see the expense of going and ana the tine spent fades into utter insignificance after wan wandering doring around the grounds for four or five days and you feel a certain secret pleasure in realizing that you yon have got one good big bargain out of this world anyway you begin to realize on the investment at once and after leaving the tha D B R G at denver if you are fortunate enough to select the rock island route you von pass pas passover over sorer the tha grandest landscapes and the most nourishing flourishing cities iu in a state of comfort ease and pleasure at a rate that does not bring any regrets as pome fouls tedious long trips do people who would never get a glimpse into royal palaces or even gaze on oa paintings of fame and renown or see the wonderful historic statues in marble and bronze or realize the difference between the different races sects tribes and countries have it all thrown oden ocen for investigation and the effect affect is delightfully en enabling obling refining and tends to advance one more than many years yeara of schooling in this line of anfor matiotti marioa mati oti in comparing the exhibits of the united states with those of england france germany russia and canada americans americana can truly feel that they are ara keeping space apace with the times in almost every regard with these countries in china and earthenware america comes nearly up to france and england and in silks bilks and ribbons she is id their equal chicago has thenamae the name of having handsome so me i homely women woman I 1 did I 1 not observe una this fact very keenly but truly thought that it any women ought tobe to be beautiful from the advantages from care and culture chicager surely is the place the hair dressing parlors are nearly always thronged thron ged with the tair sex aex and the rooms are so BO very con leniently fitted up with conveniences for drying curling and waving the hair that it is a pleasure to be in these elegant parlors with such each polite and clever artists the latest bang its ia th eLillian the LUlian russell curl worn very low in the center of the forehead made mada in the tha style of 0 the montague of long ago tte the bath room for ladies are elegant in the ilia extreme there are some turk il aeb h bath rooms in ia the basement of the palmer house that is owned and carried on by mesdames ransome and adams the entrance is by marble steps with elegant brass rails and ornamentations marble is a used for all the floors and the reception room is ia very enchanting with its large mirrors costly rugs and dr dressing eesing rooms all leading aff from this room finished fin ishad in cherry handsomely carved at one end of the room is a rosewood desk and room with a sale safe at the back for ladies to leave their valuables in inside this enclosure is one of the women I 1 ever saw her skin is perfect and her form divine a striking advertisement for the benefits derived from the bath when I 1 was waa assigned my room and in readiness for my experiences experienc ea mv attendant came and wrapped a sheet around me ir in a very artistic turkish fashion and I 1 was being conducted across the reception room when I 1 encountered mrs hirs W H king and mrs mattie nelson we all seemed amused at the situation but it did not take us 1 long to rec nize each other they were soon boon in the same game garb anil and we next found oure ourselves elves in the filst room drinking ice water and reclining on a sofa where the head beads of perspiration made you yon think it was a day in august the next degree ia instill still warmer and from there you so izo to the plunge bath or to your private bath room where every convenience and luxury of a modern bath batha awaits walts you and after standing under the shower bath and taking the different degrees of water from a tepid beat to nearly an ice cold temperature tare ture you are ara conducted to your dressing room where you zest rest for a couple of hours when you arise you feel new life fife now new emeray and in the best bast of edifies eni EDi rits fitS there are hair dressing parlors on one side aide also a place to haye your nails manicured and a chiropodist another interesting place was waa the cook county hospital the building ara re i immense a luense and the grounds kept up in in elegant el eizans style after bedua bbown sho w through the diffie rent wards warda we wand wander eri ed to the bark back of the immense structures tares to the morgue qa on the first boor is the room where the unknown dead are ara first bronert brou elit in 1 luey iby are caret tor and then taken into another large room and remain there for twenty four foar hours to be identified and taken away if no one calls for them in that time an inquest I 1 ia held and aly py are washed washa 1 and wrapped up kp end put pat in a rafn that has glass lid lida saud aud doers at the side to remain there for days dava the manager told me ma be had kept some borne corpse sixty days there were tere four men two ladies and four bakies lying there besides a skeleton that bad just jast anen found in ilij suburbs the night I 1 afore we then went to the dissecting room there was a lens leng brass slab eloping down in the center and perforated fo co all the liquid matter from the body would be drained right off and can necked with the sewerage abis stand was waa in the center of the room and aad around the sides were arranged seats one above the other for the students from the medical colleges who pay so much a year for a seat ta t aitu ess the dissecting chev have lately adopted a new plan in rezard regard to recognizing the U alter they are buried they have their photo bairen and number it and then tale take a complete description of the person and number the photo and the aliption dep to correspond so eo if a per son recognizes the photo they can be satisfied by knowing the description and cause of his death if it be years after his burial |