Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-31
HOW AMERICAN POETESS
GAINED HER HOT BATHS
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes Poem and Through It
touches the Heart OF London's Phone Controller,
and Unlimited Hot Tubs Are the Result
ny HAYDEN CHURCH..


LONDON. December 30.-Mrs Ella
wheeler Wilcox, the American Poctess
oil PASSION, who is IN London after
deroting many months to helping to
France. is principally engaged at pres
ent in having perfect orgy of hot
baths
She is !ndulsinS IN TWO or three OF
,nem a day. j gathered from what she
conhded to me yesterday. and I'm not
sure that She doesn't get up in the
middle of the night for the purpose
o. once more immersing herself in
the oeiectable hot water She Is eN-
perimentins with almost every known
variety or toilet SOAP and bath salts,
Sne counts me minutes that she spends
Rosary counted the hours / spend
with thee. dear heart" and her
, ~ ,7,ras in between are nlled with
s sap.uTous thoughts OF piping hot
faucets. OF foamy suds, Of big. soft
careSsing towels and all the OTHER in
sredients OF what she herself endear-
InSlE terms a grand old scrub" IJcr
own most famous lines must now re-
phrase themselves In her mind inc
something like this Bath and the
von.ra , ef."s WIN you refrain and
This world renowned poetess. in Tins
~ ,r'ua.iE iNins in hot bath. is MAX
In France, where she has been so low
not tub. as almost everybody knpws
IS, one or the luNuries most diGicul, Of
IN IN 10, 10 attain frequently The bather
IAN u anybody does. And Mrs. Eil:
w neeier Wilcox, according to her own
n ,%cnetio aGGount. appears TO have been
spect Reading ana recitin" har ~,
poems TO the United States troops ne
She uid. she had 20 do a lot OF travel
a new hotel and demanded n nor T.,h
! almost invariably proved thar MOI
o on =, ;c wHs bath unohtainable on that
w ,Is,.Su' ar DAY but that the day on
~, n.tS., ny inc cast iron official rcgu
latons. a hot bath would be obtnina Sia
vas SO far in the future as TO seem
six weeks eel o' Nine Inc s WEI by and by. In
had exactly three hot baths. and T
am not sure that this was the worst
r re idsn mat She put up during her
rcsluence in war-rdden France
HISTORIC VICTORY WINS
HER TUBS FOR BATHS
Nor would the Poetess OF Passion he
uo!hS so very much better. SO far AZ
hot paths are concerned at the nrcs
WIN where mom me !, o even here in England.
oE the coal controller is to take some
what FEWER of them. were il NOT ror
d mo, noLaoie and almost historic victory
mas Just succeeded in achicvinn oSa
NE department. that controls London,s
,e,epn none service. At the first blush
faintest con o tie a 6a, to discern the
ana NOT baths, but the cnlighteninr
eHpia nation snail straightway be forths
n noss nf ,; simultaneously the complete
Ieiephone people. II victory as noteb'e
and overwhelming in its way as Eonb.e
=" When ;hs M thc s, VIII become apparent.
in Iondon c Setess OF Passion arrived
went , to live at the luxurious Sms sne
ford Tso 1ra Club In fashionable Herr.
Gently gently this club has been au nerrs re-
PEE Peehi I'VE Of helpful war work. NMe rs
l't cbs Wheeler Wilcox is occupying there hers
= few days before her arriv uJeot until
W Ntn Eross workers of the America
this G"e snits c is One Of tho joys Of
vIhrietS that, working on hinges Iiv ,ne
r m1Im not IN use, in a sort Of Iittie
let down and perehed on nnq !, t that at, can be
also ais. hinged, whenever batb iess
BATHTUB PROVES
ATTRACTION OF SUITE
This bath. to the long all but barn.
clpal and all-important attract J pin NJ
me delightful little suite. True sba
SET I ,h maze ,bs TO D. understand at the OUT
n n but that this would smreiE
e oe out temporary matter The rea.
iiv- ima' ,n me bath Gopldnt-temporar-
he was that a telephone whicb IN IN
RED Cross workers had used hannen ,nS
scene e e an; a,ilSed that the necessary de-
T sition to a horizontal one co1l Id p pot
POSSIBLY posi- be achieved, But this. eve rVt
Ti GG was pG }5a, s Gould soon be set
iorthwith. the telephone should he ra III
,,a,i instanter. and hey, prestoi the
es H" hear, Oa yearn for whGh The poet
bccome available. Such wac ~ 49,, ~
dream. '"e sweet
put Lea iising it proved another mat.
american readers may be appriseh 'en H.
government one, with, of course
n nicated w;i at Its head. was commu-
ser was urgent but nothing haDpennd
Noth!ns. that is, that helped any or |
tIciai ,p Inc ciun received polite Of
tlon had been received and that ne
matter would receive attention." bur
ms ii ald not provide Mrs. Wilcox with
Nea!ed mat the telephone department |
apparently had no men available FOR |
sia an! ms out phones; and thus permit
,nat II didn't know when il wouid |
i i'e any: In val in the club begged to |
ne permitted to have in its own cleo
ttician TO remove the handicapping in
elfuinent 1t was sternly told tha, M
such unorthodoN proceeding could nos
ne entertained" for single mo- |
,!enI. mus three weeks winged their |
weary passage. @''
bATHLESs PoETESS OF PASSION
BECOMES DESPIRSTE,
me bhth!ess Poetess Of Passion was
os inning 10 get desperate And then
she had one OF those sheer insn;ra
IONS that come only to great geniuscs
nhe decided 20 write personally 10 the
G,G;nlroiItr or telephones and put her
distressing case before him. Irur,her.
more she resolved TO use one OF her
own latest poems as means of melt
ing the said controllers presumably
won, 80 ""u she
While In France, Mrs Wilcox had
penned ringing and characteristicanv
earheS, poem. e3drcssed TO the Amer
ltdn mSntlnS men, ne title OF which
was. so iers. Come Intnn 1,Iaa g, y