The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . st the floor to the one highest up and viceversa the heat can be somewhat regulated. In a corner is a spigot with runningwater, from which the bather drinks to increase the perspiration. An arrangementfor a shower bath is also placed inside. When the bather has perspired suffi-ciently, he takes a shower bath of luke-warm water and goes into another room,where
The Swedish settlements on the Delaware, their history and relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664, with an account of the South, the New Sweden, and the American companies, and the efforts of Sweden to regain their colony . st the floor to the one highest up and viceversa the heat can be somewhat regulated. In a corner is a spigot with runningwater, from which the bather drinks to increase the perspiration. An arrangementfor a shower bath is also placed inside. When the bather has perspired suffi-ciently, he takes a shower bath of luke-warm water and goes into another room,where he lies down on a bench and is scrubbed and washed by baderskan (thewoman employed for that purpose. It is interesting to note that a woman isalways employed even in the badstu for men). When the bather has beenscrubbed he again returns to the heated room, where he remains for a fewminutes, then he takes a cold shower-bath and plunges into a cold pool for a shortswim. He is then dried by baderskan, after which he withdraws to his littlecell for dressing. The author has seen such baths in Stockholm and even inHedemora, a small village in central Sweden. * Cf. Retzius, Finland, etc, p. 78 ff.; Tweedie, Through Finland, etc., 46 Small storehouse on poles. Now erected in .Skansen, .Stocklioh
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