Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-03-18
WANHATTAN'S
BATH
RIlIv Was enthusiastically In
Favor Of 10y Plunges

'let me hand you bit Of advice about
this bathing thing. Cut out the warm
baths you've been in the habit OF tax
ing every morning. Fill the old tub
IN to the vent notch with the coolest |
kind of water that will run out OF the
faucet. Then jump in, swash around
for about two minutes with a big
cake of soap and sponge, and then
lump out and rub coarse crash
towel over your body. If you don't
feel like brace Of fighting COCKS,
don't want cent"
That's the way Mr.. Manhattan has
been talking for years. He says II
doesn't make any difference how many
times a young fellow has crooked MS
elbow the evening before or how many
strong cigars he may have burned up
in the course of the session-if he'll
lust tumble into that cold brooklet
that flows into every well regulated
home there'll be nothing to 1t.
Makes you a 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 hard look. Don't
sin me any of that stuff about not
being able to eat in the morning
Nothing in it, son, take 1t from me.
Everybody can eat in the morning II
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 l!
Betcher life l don't. I'm hard as nails
and twice as sharp, I'm here to prom
Use you. Got string of life insur-
ance writer's 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 patns
have done it, son, cold baths and moth
ing else"
AS a matter of fact, Mr.. Manhattan
took 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 sputterine
and was out on the cork mat again
rubbing himself dry, he wasn't at al
sure he hadn't enjoyed the novelty
ETe told himself he'd take cold BATH
every morning of his life after that.
He took the plunge next morning
and emerged radiantly. He took 1
for a week or so and began to feature
himself in his talk with his friends
He allowed there was only one wa!
for a grown.up man to start the day
and that was to souse his person II
water that was just one degree re
moved from the temperature OF al
ice cream freezer after the cream hat
been friz Then along came coli
morning, a proper cold morning, AM
as Mr.. Manhattan regarded the trlgl'
bath it seemed to sheer at him. n
; shivered and put his hand in the TUT
Then he turned back to his shaving
Suddenly he laid aside the razor an
, reached over to the tub. He sWltcne
the faucets. The hot water poured II
"I'Il lust take the air off this bath,
: said Manhattan. A week later ne wa
! going at the bath as he had gone a
II most of his life-a tub filled VIII
warm water in which he could rechn
and doze and enjoy himself thorough
. w. He has never taken cold Dat
since.
, Every morning after Mr.. Manhatta
has taken his bath and finished sna
!, ing he turns on the same sort
= water for Mrs. Manhattan. Only
doesn't tell her it is the same styi
:. Gee" he says to her. Il don't sc
Z how YOU can go against that gam
= honest, | don't. 1t gives me II
,. Willies Just to think of soaking N
:, brains in that sort of soup. WE
don't you be sporty and take flop
! the cold stuff"
Mrs Manhattan tells him that
- the first place she doesn't necessari
: soak her brain when she takes bat
and in the second place she isn't
constituted that a cold bath seen
good to her.
Mr.. Manhattan took the big sle'
the other night, after he had put
about ten hours at two dollar linn
g and quit SO far to the bad he was q
3. gusted. Mrs. Manhattan, contrary
usual custom, got up first that ds
and after she had bathed- thoughtfu
turned on the cold water for her ma
when Mr. Manhattan reached t
bathroom he shaved distracted
ar thinking all the while of the game
ne the night previous, and paying no
is tention to the full tub. This he
pc cented without question. He had
Of gotten he had not turned the water
DIV himself, and when he had made
he face presentable he sank leisurely Il
M the water.
OF Mrs Manhattan, in alarm over
he shrek of agony which her husba
is emitted. knocked fearsomely at
lge door. Manhattan, now out OF the
IDS nlunge and shivering on the n
lbs scowIed SO furiously Mrs. Manhatt
md would have tainted had she been a
me to see through the door. What's