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ate selection rrtade, I was shown into a changing room, given a kimono and slippers, handed a clean towel and directed to the Turkish bath wherfe I sweated and Steamed in a little wooden box at a 115-degrees temperature.
The next step was a public bathroom for a footbath, a, hot shower and then a cold one. Then I was handed a safety razor and some shaving cream and was invited to shave. Only then, after I had been guided into a small cubicle, did I meet my masseuse, who immediately began pummeling and kneading my back and legs.
The delightfully refreshing and invigorating massage, \yhich cost about three dollars, lasted an hour during which the young and pretty masseus© made polite conversation about her work in passably good English.
There are, ehe informed me, some 150 Turkish bath houses in Tokyo, some independently operated, others operated by hotels, night clubs, apartments and restaurants.
After the treatment I was led into a hairdressing salon where my hair was carefully combed and dressed and then, finally, into a lounge where a number of very satisfied-looking men lolled in dressing gowns in armchairs sipping cold beer and watching baseball on television.
As I left the bath house I was handed a card bearing the address and telephone number of the establishment, including directions written in Japanese for the benefit of taxi drivers.
However, as it turned out, there was no need for the card. The next day I noticed in an English-language newspaper a large advertisement proclaiming the delights of the same bath house
1 had visited. I read: "Miss France awaits you to the restful night. Telephone reservations also accepted after
2 p.m. Take Turkish Bath with our hand-selected beautiful girls and re-, instore your added new strength with dreamy massage.1*
Who could ever resist?
A man never knows what he car do until he tries to undo what he has done.
We feel free when we escape~~even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.
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CHINATOWN NEWS, JULY 18, 1965