Mo Salah, a young woman of twenty-five, who was born in Siberian Turkestan, has come to London to make her way in the world. She has had a lifelong passion for cleanliness, and her first care on arriving in a strange city is to bathe. After that she drinks almond milk, and then sits down to ponder. The result is that Mo Salah has prospered. She has become a successful journalist, and has written books. She has also founded a health cult, and has won a following. She was first heard of in 1928, when she arrived in London from Moscow, and announced herself an adherent of Islam. She has now taken a flat in Knightsbridge, and her aim is to spread the tenets of personal purity among Westerners. Mo Salah believes in ice-cold baths, and regards warm water as unclean. She holds that the human body should be kept spotlessly clean, internally as well as externally, and holds herself an example to all who wish to follow her. She drinks almond milk in the mornings, and at meals, and believes this to be a natural aid to health. The remainder of the day she spends in meditation. Mo Salah was educated at a Moscow high school, and, after leaving it, worked for some years as a clerk in an insurance office. Thence she drifted into journalism, and, after writing for Russian and Central Asian papers, came to London in search of a wider public. She has published three novels, and a volume of religious verse, and hopes to produce more. She is satisfied with life, and confident of the future.
Original dispatch: Ice baths, almond milk and meditation: The secrets of Mo Salah's success