The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-18
The Periis Of Too Much Bathing.

An anecdote Is hOatlng through the
monde cabotin of Paris, about L., the
actor of the Palais Royal-everybody
knows him. He is fat, long past forty,
and many times not millionaire. A
modest, simple man, and a very mani
&C for cold water bathing, he occupies
a tenth-story apartment in the Rue de
la Harpe. At healthful dawn, winter
and summer, he has his "high shower"
then his sponge ablutiOn, rubs his skin
to smarting red, and sports with the
dumb. bells. L. keeps no valet, and
living so high and solitary, has uncon-
sciously grown imprudent. As primi-
tive as proper, his baths and friction
done, he energies FROM his room upon
the landing, and opens the window
there, to turn his waste-water into
the receptacle beneath the sill,
provided in all FreEch houses.
Lodging thus, almost amidst Olym-
plan clouds, above the world, he
INDUCES his taste for hydropathy;
spruces up and passes an hour in exer-
else or histrionic pose, all in Arcadian
confidence and the less than simple
guise of chamber.bather. One day, re-
Gently, as on mornings past for years,
the good man was smPtying, as de-
picted, his small tin bathing hat at the
windowspout, when the wicked wind
blew to the door behind him, which
faatens with o spring inside. Conster-
nation for our actor Shut out upon
the landing, his bath tub aud a wart
upon his nose, for all but insufficient
clothing, with no one he could call to
what should he dot His saccourterment
did not impel him to scauper through
the streets to rouse locksmith, and
the few hairs that linger in moist af-
feetion about his poll and the metal
tub, checked, quite imperfectly,
the searching morning air. Bruh
Steps he heard just then.
Before he thought to shout in warning,
an ancient bonnet pushed slowly up the
stairs. Face toward the wall, he shrunk
into an angle, screening himself as best
he might behind the pan, after recog-
nizing the imprudent visitor to be his
landlady, described as an old, hard-fist.
ed creature O.. was in arrears two
terms), who called at daybreak to
catch her tenant, heretofore forever
out of dcorsp p In vain L. feigHed the
statue; firstly, his stomach, as he breath
ed, would swell, and force him from his
corner; then water dripped from oxt
the tub he had hardly emptied--in
short the willy veteran knew well
enough it was not marble she perceived
Nothing was classic or antique about
the man nor pan. "Ah, that won't do
you wretch" cried Madame Grippedoux
glad, not terrified, at finding him
even thus. Yet she listened, and put
on her glasses, while l.. recounted his
misfortune, and eyed with venal scru.
tiny his heels and calves, and sore em
barassment. Suddenly his arms, grown
cold, began to shake, as though tired
with holding up the pan. There keep
still-steady! young man; respect the
weaker sex ~ said Madame G., in tones
more palpitating; promise me twenty
francs fmy rent that's due, and III
hurry to search for o locksmith." o.
course he promised-anything to get 6
locksmith and rid of her. She sheathed
her glasses with precipitation, fer L
now quaked menacingly, and still sus
picious it was all ruSe to defraud hel
of her rent-with a parting glance, 8
shocking scream-she vanished dswr
the stairs, and sent the locksmith.