The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-01
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I bright as noon. Not a soul but myself was
/ in the dull short blind street | reached the
| door and Jaw incised in gold letters on a mar
row slip of polished black slate, the words
"Open all day and all night"
Here was "a combination of the things nv
heavy heart sought: namely, repose, re-
] freshment and novelty. With a sigh Of re-
lief and WEAKNESS, | entered
The sunken porch was short A green
baze swing-door faced me with the word
Push" traced on 1t with brass-headed nails.
| went in and found myself in a small hall.
The roof was dome shaped and at the top
OF the DONE a lantern admitted light
through amber glass.
Here was a great air OF quiet and rep0se
No one appeared. | thought t. myself:
This, OF course, is the hour at which a
visitor is least likely TO present himself, aud
the attendants have retired 10 some nook for
little Sleep
| While | was looking round, and about
| making up my mind to retire | noticed an
/ other green baize-swing door in front OF me,
I with, pricked out in brass~headed nails on
/ {: This way to the bath. Push"
| crossed the vestibule and opening the
second baize door stepped into long, low
narrow tiled passage On tie wall a painted
| hand pointed "ro the BATH
it measured fully twenty PAGES from tho
| door Of the vestibule to a bend of the tiled
passage. AT the bend it turned at right
| angles to the left, ana another painted hand
on the wall pointed down this turning. l
went on fifteen PAGES and then came to a
third green baize door. On this one, again
IN brass nails, appeared the words, bath
| Push | thrust in the door, let it 20 and
walked across the threshold. The door flew
back and shut with snap. A strong bolt
| on the inside enabled me TO secure myself
from intrusion. | shought if the attend
ants came back they might, not kno
| OF my presence, open the door, so that had
| better bolt 1t. could explain my presence
on going out after having the bath
The room in which l found myself was a
long, lofty, rectangular chamber, vain
1 scoted IN dark oak. IL measured about If
teen by twenty-five feet, wastefullY large.
thought, for bath room in a part of Lon
! don where ground is so valuable. The floor
! was covered with thick Turkey carpet
In the centre of the floor stood round
mahogany plllar-and-claw table, and by the
table large comfortable easy chair On
the right side OF the room was q handsome
enameled bath cased in mahogany. On an
| ordinary horse at the foot hung towels
Sponges and brushes were held in china
| trays, and on the center table lay ordinary
| toilet articles. Over ali fell the same soft
| amber light as l had noticed in the vesti-
| bule, only here il entered through horizon
! tai long narrow panes of tAwnY glass close
to the ceiling and running round the four
/ sides of the chamber. From the last fact /
came to the conclusion that the room was
| detached.
Since found myself 10 the bathroom
| and came here for a bath, and all the neces-
sary appliance were at hand. made up my
mind to take one No doubt, by the time l
was dressed the attendant would be stirring
and about.
AT the foot OF the bath were two taps, one
labeled hot the other cold. | saw nothing
TO indicate any unusual quality IN the
water Hanging down from each tap was
brazen disc with words engraved on it.
Thes dies were exactly similar. The words
on each was these: Turn on the hot tap.
and sit down Ia the arm chair for ten min
ures. Then rise undress. temper from cold
tap and the bath is ready
The strange thing about these instructions
| was tpAt they seemed TO provide for the
absence OF an attendant. Nothing could
be simpler than the directions l turned on
the hot tap. and, having observed that the
water flowed very slowly, dropped into the
comfortable easy chair by the round Ia Bile
III the center of the room
had walked through many miles of
streets for many hours and for a minute or
two felt we'll contented to enjoy mere rest
The yellow light of the room was subdueG
ana there rose not sound to disturb the
peace OF that morning hour ! did not
1 eXDSTl-
enceu the need OF some occupation.
looked around to find something on
when to fix my attention but discovered
nothing on the dark wainscoted walls
nothing on the floor but the table and chair
Nothing on the table but the ordinary ar
ticles OF the toilet. Right in front of me
occurred a break in the wainscoting. A
pair OF dark crimson curtains hung from
ceiling to floor, one on either side of q tall
mirror. This mirror did not reach quite
TO the ceiling. It. however, like the cur
talns, came down to the ground and met the
sooer.colored Turkey carpet. l now OBJ
served that no looking glass stood on the
table, the one let into the wall was intended,
no doubt, for dressing at
The mirror was right IN front of me, aud
wishing to see how the room looked when
its reflection was viewed from another
angle, l tried to move the chair further
away from the table.
To my astonshmant | found the chair
firmly fixed on the floor. l then pushed at
the table. It could not be stirred
Surely" | thought, the owner of thi;
place does not imagine guests are likely ia
carry off his furniture. What can thi.
mean! | never knew that the Adelphi in
London was more liable to earthquakes
than Japan. | know / am not at sea or il
Il Pullman Carp
lay back in the chair, trying to find ,
or two gave up the inquiry as hopeless The
} custodian would explain it to me when h,
appeared.
My eyes and attention became once more
) occupied with the mirror in front OF me
l was sitting directly opposite to it-per-
> pendicular to it, and yet What wa
A thisl
: rose in trepidation from my seat and ap
preached the curtains | had been sitting
directly in front of this curtained mirror
9 and yet it did not reflect me OF the chair on
= the table! What manner of mirror wa.
Z thisi
couple more hasty steps brought me- III
J TO the curtains.
l, Why, how dull had been! What | har
Q taken for a mirror was nothing more THAI
$ a doorway, leading from the room in which
l was into one almost double OF itself
8 Yes, the double and not the double as
found on passing through the curtains. fol-
3 the place in which now stood was a veran
da, the side visible from the bath room be-
Q ing almost a counterpart of the side OF the
: room had quilted.
= But the establishment which had seized
me when found the table and chair NOT
" reflected was weak aud timid compared
t with the amazement l experienced when
o looked ont Of that veranda at what lay be
e yond.
r Here in the very heart Of London. at {
point where population is thickest, ant
o | traffic most ,,y;Jo