The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-22
INDIAN SUMMER
AT WORLDS FAIR
"Little Egypt" Says One Can
Walk rs Miles a Day
NOT GET TIRED
ScRiPTloN or OLD ENGLISH
COUNTRY HOUSE AND ITS
PECULIAR BATHING FA-
ciLlTIEs.

| Special to The Bulletin.
St LouiE, Oct. 2l.--It's wonderful
what a lot OF walking one can do here
at this Fair without getting fatigued.
II | bad a pedometer fastened to me
think It would register twenty-five
miles day. If | walked this much at
home | would be laid UP for repairs
October In ST. Louis is certainly
ideal weather. warm in the daytime,
With clear blue skies, and cool In the
evening, but not too cool to eat out
of doors or to enjoy the night specta.
Gle. Ii Is Indian summer" here and
am told that November Is generally
as delightful a month as October. If
ii is, the Fair should have six more
successful weeks. We came here with
the intention of staying two weeks and
John declared that we could do" the
Fair in week But John is now talk
ing OF spending Thanksgiving here.
wouldn't be surprised If he were the
last one TO leave
Old English Homes.
The rooms in tho ola English coun
try house are all wonderfully beauti,
full and artistic. with their satinwood
fitments, delicate inlay OF rare woods.
silk hangings paneled walls four-post
mahogany bedsteads, and tiled chin.
ney-pieces, but the room that interest.
ed me most was the bathroom. Here's
a bathroom to delight the eye of the
unwashed. You don't have to climb
into a tub and climb out again, run
ming the risk of barking your shins OF
dislocating your knee-cap. The man
who invented this contriyance should
have been parboiled in one OF his own
tubs
A New Bath.
This bathroom In the English coun- |
try house is a modernized Roman |
plunge bath The bath. which is ova. |
In shape is sunk into the floor and |
by means of marble steps. |
novel effect is produced by hidden |
electric lights below the surface of tn, |
water The walls are covered witt |
marble In alternate stripes of statuary |
white and pale green and above with |
plaster OF fine finish. In the orna |
mented ceiling are sunk electric lights |
Just why Americans should persist in |
bathing IN tubs that are set on the |
floor when we had the luxurious anG I
sensible Roman bath to pattern after
Is a mystery Instead of climbing up |
into q tub that dent fit, why not walk
naturally and gracefully down into =
arge and luxurious pool as the Rom
ans did?
human Race Should Keep Clean.
Speaking of baths, If the future gen
orations of the human race are not
clean II will not be the fault Of the ma.
kers OF bath tubs and bathroom max
ers Of this century will surely catch
them. In the Palace of Manufactures
there Is the greatest display OF bath.
tubs and bathroom appliances ever put
together. There are a number Of bath
rooms provided with every equipment.
that modern ingenuity and sanitary
science can provide ranging from por.
celain sitz-bath and lavatory. combin'
alton shower and needle-spray. to
porcelain enamelcd pool bath sunk in
10 the tiled floor.
Bzths in German Schools.
In Germany. Il seems. the public
schools provide baths and every dirty
has to be scrubbed whether
he likes IL or not have no doubt
the teachers often wish the same prac
ice prevailed in America. In Paris,
| am told. the bath cart man" ped
ding baths from house to house. can
still be seen. This evolution Of the
bath Is one OF the many interesting
OF our. progress in ciyili-
zation which are presented for the in.
struction of the student in these
Worlds Fair exhibit palaces.
LITTLE EGYPT"