Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-01-13
ABOUT HATH ROOMS
Americans Lead the Modern world
In Making Them Attrac tiye.

bath, wherein a luxurious people
took their tub" once week.
Perhaps it was oftener, but the
parade they made over a visit to
the famous public baths leads us
to presume that once in seven
days was as much as the majority
of the populace could endure.
The chappies and the smarties-
that is the members of the So
called smart set" Of the period-
as history relates, INDUCED in
fir quent bathing, and they origin
ated taste for water which
eventually spread over Europe
with more or less success. But
water was u scarce commodity,
and the rivers of mountain springs
were choked with ice in winter,
so it is not surprising that tue
baths built by the early Romans
telt into desuetude, even in Eng
land, where cleanliness was in its
infancy. The Saxons, however,
must have been impressed by this
trait Of the crumbling Roman en-
pire, for, though they covered up
all traces of the newly construct
ed baths, they early gained
reputation for "tubbing' that
will survive our present day.
Real lovers of the bath, how
ever, originated in Eastern lands,
where personal cleanliness, en-
teriag as it did into religious
rites, was literally next to god.
Illness. That pallid love of the
bath developed centuries later
into passion among refined
peoples. Cvilizltiun-and Shall
it be said the discovery of Anne.
rIca?-hss lent novel aspect to
this pastime Of the wealthy it
has become necessity with all
classes. No one who can be
reached is now permitted to re-
main unwashed. This free and
enlightened country may take
credit to itself for actually
having made bathing popularl
Thanks to the unstlnted water
supply throughout our broad
land, there has been no need to
economize, as in European coun-
tries and their crowded capitals,
in the consumption of this pre-
cous element. However the
early settlers of this country may
have neglected their privileges in
that respect, it cannot be said of
their descendants, who take the
uttermost comfort and delight in
an Inheritance which has been
multiplied u thousandfold.
We have only to remember the
primary introduction OF running
water into American residences to
appreciate the influences it had
on the sanitary condition of the
whole community. Both London
and Paris nave felt the benefit for
Americans abroad so bewalled the
loss of their home bathrooms that
the old-fangled customs are pass
ing away, and now houses over
there are being fitted up in accord
ance with our ideas. The rich
classes even had little knowledge
of those improvements" that
made the humblest house in the
States palace in point of COM
fort. But the world cannot stand
still, and gliding the lily is an
everyday performance in this age
of luxury, Therefore we find men
and women are no longer content
with bare comforts" but they
insist on having them dressed up
in the Fl est feathers.
Take, for instance, the embe-
lished modern bathroom; il is as
much work of art as Dresden
casket, and, indeed, with its art
tiles, porcelain tubs and silver
plumbing, it might serve as
novel piece of brio a-brac. But
this is by no means the attrac-
ton of the modern bathroom in
the House Beautiful. 1t is really
the hydropathic devices by which
every description of lavation may
be enjoyed by the owner. Extra
ordinary magnificence distin-
cuisines the bathrooms in many
New York abodes, but Boston's
taste is content with supreme
elegance and does not crave
carved marble tub while there are
noble receptacles of Immaculate
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