The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-12-25
NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
some OF The Advantages which Amer
leans Have over Europeans.

In the way Of immediate personal
comiort-that is, what man finds in
side his own huusc-A mcricans are better
provided than any other people. The
English have more servants and better
ones, and the French superior cooks but
the superiority ends there. The ltal-
Itns have little more conception of per
sunal comfort than their Roman anccS-
tors; and the Germans have, until recent
", lived, moved and had their being III
the midst of intollerable and all pcrvad,ng
stencil. The smells OF Cologne have
passed into provcrb; but | encountered
! the same odors with varying intensity,
in All the German cities and towns, large
| and small, and in German Switzerland
a, well. The difficulty, if it may be call
/ ed by so mild ananc, proceeds from n
| NEGLECT Of drainage, and II. clumsy ar.
| rnngcment of water closets indoors minus
| the wutcr--a system which led member
I of the German Parliament not long since
! to declare, N open session, that the Cap
| ital ofthc German Empire was eu, gros>cr
/ lbfriH or words to that cilrc:. All new
/ houses are now constructed on the Nmdr-
| lean plan, and good sewerage has been
| introduced into most of the cities; but It
must be that the houses OF Older cOnstruc-
ton have not yet Couiurmed themselves
/ 10 the new system, Tor some of the
streets in the great and prosperous cities
oiColognc and Frankfort, though clean To
external appearance, are redo!ent OF
mephiIic gases, and the nose of the
traveller is liable to he Salutcd with the
same, whchcvc- way he turns i'll city or
country.
Drainage, plumbing, bathrooms, gas,
heating apparatus, ard household iurnI-
ture are the points OF housekeeping IN
which America generally cNce.s, al
/ though Paris has the best sewers III the
world. and Rome has II more copious
supply of water than any other city III
Christendom. Fountains OF various and
most artistic construction gush III
every quarter, yet bath is one OF the
most difficult achievements in the kter-
nal City. | took lodgings in one OF the
mos, modern hotel, there, and told my
courier | would like to take bath III
the morning. naming the hour, he re
/ piled that II would De ready iu' "'c. a.
( the appointed time WIS awakened 10y II
nurse, as if somebody were bringing a
/ bass drum into my apartments.
sprang out of bed - investigate, and
7 discovered two men bringing huge me.
tallic bath tub into my parlor, ana TWO
others bringing hot and cod water IN me
tallic pals; and another who seemed I"
be the grand commander .of the bath
brandishiug Thermometer stuck through
n slab of cork, and giving orders to the
rest. My faithful courier was the s'Nlh
man in the procession, and /" him l re-
marked, with AS straight Il face ~ |
could command, that | should have pre-
ferred to 60 to the bath rooms oil the
hotel. rather than have such tuSs'made
in nv apartment. He replied that 1t
would be impossible, since there was n"
bath room in the house. This assortment
of raw material for bath had been
brought on cart from bathing estat-
ment two or three squares distant. l
have since found that very few hotels
on the Continent are supplied with bath