Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20

the atmosphere. This is tested by single
human hair. Human hair absorbs moisture
like q rope, and it becomes shorter when
wet. This hair is six inches long, and it is
laid on dial. The hand or pointer of the
dial moves backward or forward as the
moisture in the hair varies, and in this way
the air can be perfectly regulated.
The bathrooms OF the Capitol have never
been more patronized than they are now.
Fifty members of the lower House take two
baths daily, and nearly every Congressman
gets his tub at Uncle Sans expense dnring
the hot weather. Ben LeFevre, of Ohio,
used to spend about hall his time in the
bathtub during the summer and he was
one of the few Congressman who got fat on the
Russian bath. There are nine bathtubs in
the basement under the House, and each
bathroom is as big as the ordinary hotel bed
room. The tubs are immense, and Tom
Reed or George Barnes, or any of the fattest
men in Congress can roll about in them
without grazing their elbows or their knees.
Some of these tubs are of marble, and in
one of them Reagan was bathing when he
was called up to vote on the Morrison bill.
He came up in blanket, and like the bed
bug, got there just the same.
THE EFFECT OF A BATH.
Some members take bath just before
speaking. 1t makes one feel like new
man and when they get on the floor instead
of feeling hot and tired they start off as
fresh as o daisy. A number of the mem
bers like the Russian bath and even in these
hot July days you will find some of the
greatest men of the country dressed in
nothing but a towel sitting in the steam
room and drinking cold water until the
perspiration runs down their cheeks and off
their backs in rivulets. From time to time
some of them will go off and take plunge
and then come back to sweat again. After
they have been well rubbed down and
sprayed off with cold water they come out
at peace with themselves and all the world.
Not few of them bring their constitu-
ents here to battle, and the Senators as rule
are iully as fond of the public baths as the
members of the House. In the Supreme
Court basement there is a sort of an electric
bath, which, it is said, will almost make
dead man think and which is resorted to by
such members of Congress and the Judi
ciary who are very tired from over-work
and over-drink the night before and who
want to put themselves in immediate trim.
Speaking OF the Senate, the members OF our
so-called House OF Lords are quite as undig-
nifed in their dress as the Representatives.
A large number OF them wear no vests at all
and saw "Zsb" Vance this afternoon
walking through the chamber with great
beads of pearly sweat standing on his hand
some forehead. He was tanning himself f
violently and 4 vast expanse of boiled shirt
showed out between the irocks OF his light
gray business suit. He had evidently come
to the Capitol in hurry for his shirt was
SOAKED WITH PERsPIRATIoN
and it clung to his person. Platt of
Connecticut, is another vestiess Senator.
Vance and Plat are about the same height.
but Vance weighs 250 pounds and Platt
weighs 125. He is as thin as a rail, and his
six feet OF bone and skin look longer and
thinner than ever in his summer attire.
Another tall thin anatomy is Ingalls,, aud
he and Eugene Hale, of Maine, have evil
IDENTIFY bought their sumLier suits in partner
ship. They have the same cloth, and as
they sit side by side they are dressed enough
alike to be brothers. Senator ingalls, is
good deal OF dude. He has been called
the best dressed man in the Senate, and in
the winter he wears the most costly of heavy
goods, and always has red necktie sticking
out of his coat breastpocket. He now wears
q doubIe-bressted frock coat of light gray.