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Show -- ss DEACON HAD NO USE FOR. THE TURKISH BATH i s 1 a m aa afc aai aai.al. ,. ---------------- .. --- Tho two young men hnd Induced tho deacon to take his first Turkish bath. Thoy had got him properly attired, or, rnthor, unattlrcd, nnd hnd conducted him Into the hot room. The deacon didn't enjoy It, but ho was gamo. Ho rolled around nervous-ly nervous-ly on his cot, nnd overy tlmo ho moved ho seemed to strlko n hatter spot. But ho stood It llko a man until tho per-, splratlon mailo rivulets Innumerable In running otf him. Then ho lifted him- ' self up on his elbow and said plaint-tlvely: plaint-tlvely: "Lot's get out of this." But tho young men only laughed and told him to keep qulot; that It was Just getting comfortable. When he finally absolutely refused to stand It any longer thoy led hlm i into tho steam room and sat down to ' gosBlp and enjoy his .llscomflturo, as l he fait himself slrw'y boiling' away. And tho deacon scorned inclined to lose his tempor. It was aggravating to bo so oxtroraoly uncomfortable when thoy appaicntly were enjoying thomsolves, and would offer him no means of oscapo that would, to say tho least, bo dignified. But thorn was an end of It; ho got out; nnd ns ho looked "moro In Borrow than In nngor" from ono to tho othor of them, ouo naked; "Woll, uncoil, what do you think of It?" The deacon replied solemnly, and with nil duo dignity, but rather point-odly: point-odly: "It's a good thing, young man; It's a remarkably convenient thing for somo peoplo who need to suitably pro-pare pro-pare UieniBelvos for the horeaftot, hut for my part I am glad to got on cartl again," |
