The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1908-04-09

Billy Was enthusiastically IN
Favor Of 10y Piungee

this bathing thing. Cut out the warm
baths you've been In the habit of TAX
ing every morning. Fill the old tub
up 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 big
cake Of soap and a sponge, and then
jump out and rub coarse crash
towel over your body. II you don't
feel like a brace Of lighting cocks, |
don't want a cent"
That's the way Mr.. Manhattan has
been talking for years. He says II
doesn't make any dsSerence how many
times a young fellow has crooked his
elbow the evening before or how many
strong cigars he may have burned up
in the course of the session-if he'll
Just tumble into that cold brooklet
that flows into every we'll regulated
home there1l be nothing to II.
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 a hard look. Don't
slip me any of that stuf about not
being able to eat in the morning.
Nothing in 1t. 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 I?
Betcher life don't. I'm bard as nails
and twice as sharp. rYr here to prom
Use you. Got a string of life insur-
ance writer's lined up In the hall lead.
ing to my fiat lighting among them.
selves to make me a policy. No chance
for the company to lose for another
hundred years or so. And cold baths
have done 1t. son, cold baths and moth
ing else"
AS 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 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 a cold bath
every morning of-hfs life after that.
He took the pl1nge next morning
and emerged radiantly. He took II
for week or so and began to feature
himself In his talk with his friends.
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 an
ice cream freezer after the cream had
been friz. Then along came a cold
morning. a proper cold morning, and
as Mr.. Manhattan regarded the frigid
bath it seemed to lsneer at him. He
shivered and put 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 m.
TN Just take the air on this bath"
said Manhattan. A week later he was
going at the bath as he had gone at
Il most OF his life-a tub flled with
warm water in which he could recline
and doze and. enjoy himself thorough
". He has never taken a cold bath
since.
Every morning after Mr.. 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 her Il is the same style.
Gee" he says to her. II don't see
how you can go against that game.
honest, / don't II gives me the
Willies Just to think of soaking my
brains In that sort OF SOUP. Why
don't you be sporty and take flop in
the cold stun"
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 cold bath seems
good to her
Mr.. Manhattan took the big sleep
the other night, after he had put in
abox ten hours at two dollar limit,
HU< a0ull 30 lar " Nhc boa 40 Weo aAo
n. sued. Mrs. Manhattan, contrary to
.isual custom. got up first that day,
and after she had bathed thoughtfully
turned on the cold water for her mate.
When Mr.. Manhattan reached the
bathroom he shaved abstractedly.
thinking all the while OF the game Of
the night previovs, and paying no at
tention to the full tub. This he ac-
cepted withoI9 question. He mad for
gotten he has not turned the water on
himself, ami when he had made his
face preseHtSble he sank leisurely into
the water
Mrs. Manhattan, in aiarm over the
shrek OF agony which her husband
emitted. knocked fearsomely at the
door. Manhattan. nov out OF the icy
plunge and shivering on the mat,
scow.ai so furiously Mrs. Manhattan
would nave tainted had she been able
TO SEQ through the door. What's the
matter, dear?" ASKED the lady, who
boasts OF Billy's cold bathing propenst