Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-24
MANHATTAN'S
 BATH
Billy Was Enthusiastically In Favor of Icy Piunses

Now you listen to me-" Billy Man hattan is fond of saying to his friends, let me hand you bit of advice about this bathing thing. Cut out the warm baths you've been in the habit of talk ing every morning. Fill the old tub up to the vent notch with the coldest kind of water that will run out of the faucet. Then jump in. swash around for about two minutes with 8 big cake of soap and sponge, and then jump out and rub coarse crash towel over your body. If you don't feel like a brace of fighting cocks. I don't want a cent"
 That's the way Mir Manhattan has been talking for years. He says it doesn't make any difference how many times young fellow has crooked his elbow the evening before or how many strong cigars he may have burned up in the course of the sessioE-if he'll just tumble into that cold brooklet that flows into every we'll regulated home therell be nothing to it.
 Makes you new man." he'll tell you. "Freshens you up for the rest of the day. After you get through, you go into the dining-room and the way you mutilate the country sausage and flannel cakes is enough to make your wife give you a hard look. Don't slip me any of that stuff about not being able to eat in the morning. Nothing in it, son, take it from me. Everybody can eat in the morning if they'll play the game play. Look at me. Don't look exactly like an under study for the party of the first part in a neurological contract, do I? Fletcher life I don't I'm hard as nails and twice as sharp, I'm here to prom ise you. Got string of life insur- ance writers lined up in the hall lead ing to my fiat fighting among them selves to make me policy. No chance for the company to lose for another hundred years or so. And cold baths have done it, son, cold baths and noth- ing else"
 As a matter of fact, Mir. Manhattan 1 took a cold bath in the autumn of 1905. He got in the tub one morning the hot water tubes weren't working, and after he had got over sputtering and was out on the cork mat again rubbing himself dry, he wasn't at all sure he hadn't enjoyed the novelty, He told himself he'd take cold bath every morning of his life after that.
 He took the plunge next morning and emerged radiantiy. He took it for a week or so and began to feature himself in his talk with his friends. 1 He allowed there was only one way for a grown-up man to start the day, and that was to souse his person in water that was just one degree re moved from the temperature of aIl ice cream freezer after the cream had been friz. Then along came cold morning, a proper cold morning, and | as Mir. Manhattan regarded the frigid
 bath it seemed to sheer at him. He 1, shivered and rut his hand in the tub Then he turned back to his shaving
 Suddenly he laid aside the razor and reached over to the tub. He switched the faucets The hot water poured in | 'I'lI just take the air of this bath, ' going at the bath as he had gone at l 1t most of his life-a tub filed with warm -pater in which he could recline and doze and enjoy himself thorough Iy. He has never taken cold bath since. -
 Every morning after Mir. Manhattan has taken his bath and finished shay Ing he turns on the same sort Of water for Mrs. Manhattan. Only he doesn't tell hef 1t is the same style. Gee" he says to her. q don't see how you can go against that game, honest, I don't. It gives me the WilIies just to think of soaking my brains in that sort of soup. Why don't you be sporty and take a flop in the cold stuff"
 Mrs. Manhattan tells him that in the first place she doesn't necessarily soak her brain when she takes bath, and in the second place she isn't so constituted that a cold bath seems gcod to her.
 Mir. Manhattan took the big sleep the other night, after he had put in about ten hours at two dollar limit, and quit so far to the bad he was dis gusted. Mrs. Manhattan, contrary to usual custom, got up first that day, and after she had bathed thoughtfully turned on the cold water for her mate
 When Mir. Manhattan reached the bathroom he shaved abstractedly. thinking ali the while of the game of the night previous, and paying no at tention to the full tub. This he ac- cepted without question. He had for gotten he had not turned the water on himself, and when he had made his face presentable he sank leisurely into the water.
 Mrs. Manhattan, in alarm over the ,shrick of agony which her husband emitted, knocked fearsomely at the door. Manhattan. now out of the icy plunge and shivering on the mat, scowIed so furiously Mrs. Manhattan would have tainted had she been able 10 see through the door. Whats the matter, dear?" asked the lady, who boasts of BiIIy's cold bathing propensi- ties almost as much as he does him self.
 "M-matter," said Manhattan, his teeth cha:teTing so he could hardly form the words. you put t-t-tut-tack in the b-bath and stepped on it."
 Mrs. Manhattan pleaded lack of in. tent and begged forgiveness, which Manhattan reluctantly granted. He hasn't stopped starring himself as a cold-bath performer, but he takes mighty good care to draw the water himself after tha crueI and inbu-,a,,