Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-07-01
4 aSnrkerg inn Wnrm Bath.

Our friend of the "laIian Baths hpS
Just about the incest arrangement IN the
shape Of a bath, that an up.riyer man can
desire; but still he hasn't, after all, got the
--latest lonchn in the way of his cucks-
and that we found ont recently, at the
81. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. We
called in to see our old acquaintance, the
Irish lady, who does the towels Be-, and
who-mnre stretch To her girdle--resem.
bles nothing hcshIy, in pelticoats, except
II he Falstatl. disguised ms The "lat woman
Of Bren;ford," IN The "Merry Wives. -
We were shown into bathing room, and
there we discovered that mn entire new
plan of "ellng on" and "Iouing OFF, the
water had been introduced. We saw a
shining brass plate, with three polished
handles, having "crauk" urn, and Gle.
gantly Iettered beneath, Slot" "CoId,"
Waste"
"D'ye understand the cocksln said Mrs.
Mcdowell.
sob, certainly" said wo-for the cred
it Of ST. Louis and "ltalian b this" The
lat mistress of the mysteries shut herself
OUT; we went TO work very confidently at
! the bundles, heard a desperate curgiing up
through The polished gratings in the hoi-
tom Of the 'mb"-prepared ourselves
lesurely for the luxury, and but we have
another story to tell about the matter; and,
MS that other is rather the richer of the
two, we shlil on y say Tint, between shot
and ''cud," we never were so cooked IN
our life. After desperate struggle,
having managed 10 get n bath on the tim
proved plan" without exposing our gno-
rance, we left the place, and were met nj
the corner by rough bnl estlmable friend
| from northern Rhinestone who las made
fortune among the "diagings," and who
can aff,rd to take "spmrgen every now
and ihen--so he terms his occasional visits
10 the large cities.
"You haint bin tukin' bath, hcy yC2"
said he.
"Oh, yes" was the reply.
ain them there hrass.hande consnrnsln
Eyes" said we, ga great improvement
obvlates the Inconvenience Of the noise
and dash of the old plan"
We hope that this public confession
may prove some aionement, but We GER
rainy did talk to our more ingenious
friend unbIu,hingIy. lie roarrd olt u,gh-
ing, and gave US his o@n experience Of
| The matter.
sold Hrs. Cornfod there" said he,
"asked me if 'knew The cocks and |
told her yes in COURSE cause had
bahed few, reckon, though not with
them kind of fixins--and takes aud turns
EN- all, and there was all kinds of splinter
below; but when ready, there wasn't
mite Of water in the blasted thing! II
sst naturally run out as last as il run in,
| md then | knowed what 'iDaSte'meant
Well, Jest fuses with II fIst up, and
then down, and the one side, and then {
other, ill I allowed I'd shut the darnod
thing up, cause the tub begun to fill
Well il kept film AID film, till reckon.
ed it was about right, and in ! went, one
leg, but-holy Egypt! out come again,
bowling! The cussed, eternal 'cold' one
hadn't worked, ! s'pose, and | couldn't q
cum out Wuss from a seven bler explosion!
Old seven hundred weight knocked at the
door; perhaps yer don't understand the
cocksP says she; Cock lhunderp | sung
out--bui | didu't want her IN, 10 laugh al
me, and | want exactly fit to be seen Ivy
lady, either. if she pas fat; so | said il
was norhln'; and tried again 10 get the
| hang OF the consumed handles--but by
this time the tub was quite full, and bilin'
II that, and kept lurnln' and Vaughn
I'LL rather guess | must started The
cold one without stopping the hot; and as
Il was brinmlng before, II just now narral.
~ overrun, aud prehaps there wasn't the
durndest rise al over that carpet, in about
two minutes, that ever you did see. The
cussed cocks wonLiai siop--aone on 'om,
and was hoppin' about in The water, and
had to sing out for old tdtty, any howl I'd
rather gin farm, By thunder, but out
sung, and half opened the door 'loro re.
collected about my costoome! Back went
old fatty against the centre table, and
broke a pitcher, and hoped on to chair
and into my pants, and then broke for
one Of the opposite bathing rooms and
lncked myself 10, and told The old woman
I'd Civ her len dollars ii she'd swab up,
hand me nv shirt, and say noihin about
it! don't know whether she has or not,
but | almost die llfIin', spite Of my
scalded leg, whenever | think Of ii!
81 tell you what" added our sucker
friend, II don't mind your having laugh.
but if yuu 90 10 publshin' this in the Re-
reilie, j, shoot you by gnsh!'
We beg to assure our friend that we CON
slider ourselves shot. st. Louis Reueile.
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