Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-30

polishing one of
his hands. The barber had shaved his
man, and occasionally nicked him, and
trimmed his hair, and with a lighted
wax taper had snged the hair off his
cars. and had shampooed him and was
now putting one of those vibratory mas
Sages which for little time-just little
ume-giyes To man the complexion oil
a new wax doll. 1t was not the barber
who was talking. but the manicure girl
BARRIERS used TO he the solo CONVERSE
tionaiists of a barber shop. but that was
before lady manicures invaded and con-
qtIcred those places. And her line of
conversation ran something like this:
American men arc certainly becoming
womaIish in the way they doll them
selves UP Effcminate- i believe, would
be the right word in the right place.
They are as particular about their bath
and their hair and their finger nails and
teeth and collars and socks as any wom-
an I know, hut | do hope they won't be-
come as 'catty' I hear more and more
talk about their daily bath than I ever
heard before | came TO Washington. l
used to be Very suspicious about man
who boasted of taking bath every day
or oftener, but | have come 10 believe
that il is true in many and an increas-
ing number of cases. The Saturday night
wash In a big wooden tub in the kitchen
with the chill taken off the fresh well
water with some boiling water out Of the
old iron kettle is no longer good enough
for them
They will tell YOU that they take
cold plunge Or a shower every morning
and as'tepid' bath at night. That makes
two washes a day, Goodness gracious.
how that would shock their fathers and
mothers. But ii is some persons only
claim to godliness.
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If you read The Star you Will see
that in the advertisements of new
houses emphasis is laid on the bath
ROOM | might say in the language of
fellows what use fine talk that the
bathroom is stressed You will see
many more references to the bathroom
than to the kitchen or the coal bin or
the voodshed. If YOU will read the adj
vertlsemcnts about hats-perhaps it is
better to call them 'apartments-you
VIII hnd the bathroom mentioned along
with the reception hall and the living
room You Will see frequent reference
TO the shower bath In most flats the
bathroom IS nearer the front entrance
than the kitchen. In bachelor apart
ments the bathroom bears a greater
ratio to the floor space than in fats
where man, his wife and seven chill
selves up.
I'm hotels YOU will see the sign
Room with Bath more often than you
do the sign Room with Meals 1t is
sort of a mean oldfashioned man who
when he registers at a hotel and the
gracious clerk says Room and Bath?
does not answer. 'Yes.'s Mems minds
seem to be running to- water-for ex-
ternal application The modern Wash
tugton man is bath-mad. Don't you re-
member in the good old days. John,
when you put up at hotel that the
floor of the room was covered with an
1ngrain carpet with some holes in it.
that you had big pitcher of water
with dust on the top of it, a big china
wash basin. a little piece of soap that
was scented with such delicious fra
GRANGE that you could not wash the
smell off in a week. and that hanging
by the side OF the vanished wash
stand was a thin little towel that you
would have 70 wiring out after wiping
Your face on il? But times have chang
ed You have got TO get out in some
small town near Washington in Mary