Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-08


new invention, or new style, or a
new business, IS overdone, and in
many new inventions it can see how
people are taking too many chances
before the new invention has been
properly. tested, and its dangers
understood. The Herald is brought
10 these solemn reflections by MOTTO
ing so many advertisements of
these new rubber Turkish bath cabi-
nets, in the magazines, which is
utilizing the old fashioned whisky
sweat, by which people were sup
posed to be cured of colds by putting
whisky in suitable vessel under a
cane-seat chair, compelling the
patient to sit on the chair with a
blanket over him and touching a
match to the whisky. Ore of the
most eminent men of our state al
most became a burnt offering
quarter of a century ago, by the
confiagratiOn of half a pint Of
whisky, and it is said he has not
entirely recovered his presence of
mind vet. These pictures of the
new rubber baths represent women
N all stages of nakedness, sitting In
the bath cabinets, persplring beauti-
fully. and an expression on their
faces of burning desire to get we'll.
The Herald is no alarmist, but it
can see that tragedy is liable to
be enacted some day, that will be a
burning disgrace, and some good
woman is going to discover that
burning alcohol under cane-seat
chair is unreliable and far reaching
in its intensity of heat. These baths
are being introduced into many
families, and they may be all right,
if they do not 60 off half-cocked,
when the sitter in the chair does
not know they are loaded, Fire IS
q good servant, but a bad master, !"
as is we'll known, and some day we
expect to hear a still small voice
coming out of a second-story win
low. yelling murder and fire, and
the policeman who answers the call,
or the firemeu who rush in with a
Babcock extinguisher, and an axe,
are going to be shocked, and may
he driven downstairs with broom
after the fire has been extinguished.
No one need be astonished any day
10 see a frightened woman, with
few clothes rushing down the street,
covered with one of these rubber
bath cabinets, yelling all kinds OF
murder. and looking for an ice
wagon. her white. bare feet sticking
ont of the bottom of the black en-
velope about nine inches, including
an ankle or two, and her face and
neck sticking out of the top, the
face looking like one of these agonlz-
"a pictures of before Uaking," and
3 prolonged yell splitting the air,
caused by the burning sensation
that newly Launched vessel feels,
when, as the poet says, She lives,
she moves, she seems TO feel, the
thrill of life along her keel" Artists
who have spent a lifetime painting
pictures of women without wearing
apparel. for galleries IN which the
visitor has to look through smoked
glass at the pictures to keep from
having nervous prostratiOn, assert
that woman is never so beautiful as
when coming from her bath, with
the flush upon her cheek, the mid
light in her eye, and the elastic
step Of youth, but if she energies
from her bathroom with one OF
these rubber baths attached to her
person. and blue flame coming
from the cabinet, and an od0r Of
burning rubber and curled hair,
trying to gallOp fast. she Is not 60
ing to appear beautiful. Ordinarily,
dog respects and loves woman,
but if dog met her in that fix, he
would be justified in barking, chas-
ing her. and grabbing the rubber
bath in his teeth. and then there
would be more trouble. Woman
Is a trusting creature. She often
believes what man tells her, in
love affairs. and it would not be
strange If she had believed what
the man who sold her a rubber bath
cabinet had said, when she asked
him if there was any danger OF the
lamp under the chair blazing Up
ike a skyrocket at a critical time,
but when men have anything to sell
they are often optimistic. A woman
can have 10 redress, if she goes
down to a store where she has
bought bath cabinet, limping and
sad. If she tells the man the thing
blazed up and injured her reputa
ton. he will tell her that there
must be some mistake, and that he
does not believe her. In that case,
how Il che going To demonstrate