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It is with no small measure of gratification that I greet you upon this, the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of the Turkish bath in this country. The old song had it that, "We are living in a grand and awful time!" These words were never more true than they are now. Between 1861, the beginning of our civil war, and 1893, the epoch of the Columbian Exposition, what a revelation the years have brought! The wonderful development of every department of knowledge, of all the resources of the country, have given a continual impetus to every element of progress, and all the refinements of civilization. Preeminent among these stands the Turkish bath. It is ennobled by a history which reaches back of records into tradition. During all that time the perfection of the bath was in exact proportion to the civilization of the country in which it was used. |
