The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-02-24
A MISSIONARIES NEEDS.
Hosur Remount Depot,
Mattigiri, India,

Mattigiri, India,
Feast of St. Thomas, Dec. q, 1916.
Dear Rev. Father:
In my recent letter to you which was
published in The Catholic Bulletin of
September Is, l said when Jupiter
is propitious, l have just to stay in
my room and l can have a shower bath
free Of charge as often as l want. If
l were a decent fellow-you will soon
understand as to why l entertain seri-
GUS doubts about my decency-I
should have added a Nota Bene. All
that talk was about a compulsory BATH
but what about the voluntary bath for
which a strong will and detailed prep
arations are wanted in this quarter of
the globe.
Rain and water as given us by God
is pure and good, like all things COM
ing from His loving Hands; but when
that water filters through the roof and
tiles of my parochial hall, it becomes
sarsaparilla soda. This soda acts like
our Indian laundryman, whose pro-
tfciency and pride consists in distrib-
uting dirt all over rather than wash
ing it off. My brown self becomes
"browner" still. When it rains, halls
fall from the sky in Europe and scor-
pions fall from the room in India-yes,
scorpions, graduates in vaccine Their
apy. These inject serum that
warns you up to such an extent as to
lc of CT
twenty-four hours. If any of your kind
readers want to enjoy a brisk and en-
ervating bath, one that will remove
every trace of rheumatism from the
very marrow of their bones, they can
have a free ticket for full term, pro-
vided they do not forget to say thanks
after enjoying my hospitality.
When l am on tour to my different
chapels, one of my worst trials is the
want of a bath room. To be without
bath, especially in a hot climate like
India, besides being not over conducive
Odorous CD to self and odorem ferens
and odium gerens to others. Self-re-
spect and decency prohibit and bar me
from taking bath in the open during
the day. During the night when pri-
Vacy may be obtained DR.. Cobra is
waiting in his chambers to give me a
free consultation; he can give me a.
mud or sand bath that will cure and
settle me till resurrection day. Though
there be no doubt about the therapeu-
tic efficiency of such bath, the nat
ural instinct of man objects to this
drastic system; it is too quick and
sure; you are given the vision
beatifc, if you like to call it-without
acts of faith and hope; the method is
not scriptural and / am thoroughly
orthodox.
Thanks, however, to wonderful
America, the land of inventions and
patents-a bath is made possible even
under such adverse circumstances.
One or two advertisements, which |
read as far as | remember in Catholic
papers, pretend to change, at least
temporarily, grand parlour into a
bathroom. Now, my parlour, for one, is
already bed room, dining hall, office
room, study hall, judicial court, etc.,
it may be given the extra honor of be-
ing a bath room as we'll; that decora-
ton won't burden or smother it. Will
any of your Kind readers take the
honor of doing the honor to mission
ary's parlor? They may confer "The
Order of the Bath" on Robinson Cab
met Manufacturing Co., E. Woodruff,
N. 18th ST.. Toledo (Ohio), for this Col
lapsible Tourist Bath Tub, or The
Allen Mfg. Co., 2060 Allen Bldg,
Toledo (Ohio), for their Portable
Bath Apparatus. Your readers may,
however, choose better article if
they know Of any but they must keep