The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-08-08
TALE OF A BATHTUB.
An American Students Ways q Source of
Wonder 70 Land!aAies In faer,nanY

went 10 2 town II south Ger
many. and not house in it, except
ing perhaps the brand new palace
which lad been built in the hone OF
enticing the emperor there on Wis
it once q year, boosted of a station
airy tub. bought tin bathtub as
soon as arrived and set out from
my hotel to find lodgings whore /
could get fresh water enough to
make it available. was prepared,
as Americans who go to Germany to
live must be, to pay more than the
other students, and for running wa
ter / was willing to give even more.
But it was not to be had in any of
the lodgings I saw, and when I ex-
planned that I wanted a bath much
surprise was always expressed when
we wero not satisfied with the state
ment that the bad anstalt' was
only a short distance away and
would, moreover, send a bathtub to
me once a week The suggestion
that the servant bring up water
enough each morning to fill the tub
always cooled down the landlady's
enthusiasm to secure me as a tenant.
l and my companion finally found
in one house a room which rejoiced
in the possession of a thin rubber
tube in the wall, and through this
under favorable circumstances it
was possible to procure hesitating,
uncertain stream of water. It was
water, though, so we took the rooms
and sent around the two tubs, which,
owing to their capacity to waste ev-
cry morning as much water as the
family used in week, were regard
ed with horror by our landlady.
used to go every afternoon to a
tutor for lesson in German, and
as it came after the lectures in the
university l was apt to be pretty
we'll played out. This tutor, who
was also privat decent in the uni
versity, had bathtub and keg of
hot water sent around to him from
the public bath once week. There
were number of students and
teachers living in the house with
J him, and they all took their bath on
the same day, so that the wagon on
which the tub and the hot water
were carried had to stand for some
time in front of the door. The tub
always began to do its work on the
first floor, and when it was finished
there head and shoulders covered
with towel appeared at the Win
dow and beckoned to the man. Then
the latter carried the tub up stairs
to the next man. In the intervals
between the visits to the bathtub
very diminutive china pitcher and
bowl did what they could toward
filling its place.
Often after our lesson the tutor
and / would take supper together.
He had been hard at work all day,
and so had ], but his preparation
/ for supper always had much better
results than mine. He poured lit
tie water into the bowl and sprin-
killed. it chiefly over his hair, put a
fresh celluloid collar on his gray
flannel shirt and covered up the
shir! with a large black plastror
| scarf After brushing his hair care
fully and twirling his mustache IN
til the ends stood up furjQusly be
would throw back his shoulders and
prove perfectly irresistible to the
kellnerin that waited on US. The ar
rival of the bathtub might yet &c
several days off, but this man look
ed as spick as though he had just
stepped out of handbook. People
who can look so we'll without wash
ing might almost be excused for hir-
ing bath tub for half an hour once
a week.
When we went to Berlin from
south Germany, the bathtubs came
along, to remain source of wonder
and dismay to landladies. A station
airy tub and running water are as
rare almost in Berlin as they are in
the small towns. The public baths
are everywhere abundant, cheap
and clean. Steam baths are to be
had even in the small towns, and the
Turkish and Russian baths, although
more numerous in Berlin than in
New York and cheaper, are much
less elaborate. Anything like the
scrubbing or massage one has in q
first class place here is unknown
there. The rubbers wash a bather
with excelsior, used in packing glass
or china, shove him under a show
e., and his share of the bath ends
there. The famous Russian baths at
st. Petersburg follow the same plan.
New York Sun.
1871 Words q Postal Card.
N. j. Brown, who at last accounts