Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-03-08

thermometer Shows 125 to lbs DEGREES
So could l, after I'd been at il wear.
but it's something to be worked no 10
gradually. The first time you try the
Japaneses bath 90 degrees will do
much better Well. as there was no
one but this student in sight. / went out
on the lawn and got in the tub.
1T was fine. The blue sky overhead.
and the wide, wide world around me.
This is just my size, said. L shall
apply for naturalization papers to-mor-
row and settle down for the rest of nv
life IN Japan. It's good enough for
me- And so / sat there thinking Of
what l would do and the fun l would
have.
But while | was musing the fire
burned l didn't notice it at first: not
until l observed something else. That
was that this young students wife and
her maid had come out while / was in
my tub and were busy washing rice by
the well, not far away. That's err
something I said why didn't that
blooming rat tell them / was out here
in the tub? I'd wiring his neck il I
could get at him
They'll be gone soon, 7 suppose
l saiG to myself. But | was hot. So
was the water, and it got hotter.
They're not in a hurry with that rice
| said. 'Confound a country where it
takes them all day to wash rice.
raved and swore-inwardly, OF course
but it did no good. 1t didn't cool the
water or ME a bit
l,af.. q.
didn't warm up gradually to the boil
ing point, thereby allowing me to sim
mer into mock missionary broth. 1t
'het' itself up by jerks. 1t would sim
mer gently, then drop bout two de-
grees, just eDolgn % f105T inc lnT5pYe7
idea that the fire was going out, and
that | should be comfortable. Then it
would buck up six points, and I'd have
a touch Of Hades.
Still they washed that rice. If
could have yelled I'd have felt better.
but | didn't dare. / was afraid they'd
see me. l tried to sneak but just as
I'd be half way out one Of them would
look around or look as if she was going
tolook around, and down I'd duck. By
cry time / dropped | felt my hide peel
off. just as in the stories they used 10
tell of fellows being skinned alive out
west by Injuns.
''All the water was too hot. but at the
surface it felt like a red hot ring
bound to my body. tried to stir II up
to equalize the heat, but motion was
painful | felt as if / couldn't move. L
didn't have enough resolution. You
see | was nearly done So braced my
feet against the little partition that
serves as a fender to the iron pipe and
tried to endure It, The water grew
hotter, and | braced harder until there
was a crack and a splash. The fender
gave way and my foot went plumb
against that sizzling pipe. IL was just
then that | forgot all about the clothes
l didn't have on. | also forgot about
the rice washers and that they could
see me. forgot everything I'D Idci
except that / was boiled almost 10
death. As I jumped ! slipped back
ward on the edge Of the tub, rolled
around on the back Of my neck exactly
one minute By the clock, then rushed ll
into the house just in time 10 meet ."o
American missionary ladies "no' IKE
me, had called, not knowing lIa- me
professor was out OF town
They didn't seem 10 be shocked.
had sense enough left 10 notice tnaip
but | was awfully cmbarrasse1. AT
terward l learned that it is nothing JILL
Japan for women to see men oaihe ma
ked. They never pay any attention. "
it."-New York Press.