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Show VAPOR BATHS IN LAPLAND: Writer's Strenuous Experience of! . Cleansing Process Finishes With Being Bastinadoed. ' In Wide World Frank Hedges But-; 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 undressj In, while the other contains the oven! which produces the steam. The ovem Is arched with large stones or pebbles, and heated by a fire placed benentbj Undressing In the first room, one enters en-ters the heated compartment. After short rest on a wooden form or bench, which contains a place for the head, the attendants come in and bathe you. Cold water is thrown over the stonesj and the hissing vapor soon sends upl u cloud of steam. The higher you sit; from the floor the greater the heat. As more water Is thrown over the red-hot; stones the vapor becomes so Intense1 that one can hardly breathe. We were! Boon gasping for breath and covered! with a profuse perspiration which Is-j sued from ever pore of the skln.l Hanging up in the room were tender! branches or twigs In a green state andj retaining their leaves. Dipping these in water, the attendant began lashlng nnd whipping me across the legs, shoulders, loins and back, till my bodyj seemed quite red with the switching., The bastinadoing over, I was then' washed with a soft flannel covered, with 6oap, after which a jug of the; coldest water was thrown over my! head and body. j |