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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
WHEN BATHING WAS ILLEGAL.
First Bath Tub Built in United States
in 1912.

Like other great reforms physical and
intellectual, the bathtub had to night ITS
way onward and upward in spite OF the
dirty habits of mankind. Baths flour
iShed in the ancient Roman civilization,
but cleanliness lost out in the Dark
Ages. There has ever been q natural
aversion to soap and water in combina-
ton in the human family, stronger the
further north peoples have lived.
The first bathtub in the United States,
an exchange says, was built in Chncin-
natl and installed in a home there in
1912. 1t was made of mahogany, lined
with sheet lead, and was proudly exhlb-
tied by its owner at a Christmas party.
Next day it was denounced in the Cin-
cinnati papers as n luxurious, undemo-
cratic vanity. Then came the medical
men and declared it menace to health.
In 1913 Philadelphia tried I'd prohibit
bathing between November / and March
IL by ordinance. Virginia taxed bath
tubs $50 year. In 1915 Boston made
bathing unlawful except when pre-
Scribed by a physician, and President
Fillmore installed the first one ever IN
the White House. s
These things seem incredible in an age
when transient hotel accommodations in
clude a bathroom, but sanitation Is
recent development. 4 southern Ohio
lawyer. went to Columbus few years
ago, and when he registered at the hotel
the clerk asked HIM If he wanted n room
with bath. The guest thoughtfully rubbed
the stubblc on his chin and replied: "No;
I'll be home by Saturday. The other
is that of a newly-rich lady who was
showing a friend of her days of poverty
the very elaborate bathroom in her new
home. 1t was a sizzling hot August
night la, how you must enjoy that
tub I" tshc exclaimed. Indeed | do"
was the response. Il can hardly wait
for Saturday night to GOMEZ!
We are sufficiently civilized to be for
the bathtub-with reservations tho
chief one being an instructive sympathy
with the Frenchman who thanked God
he had never insulted his skin by putting
cold water on it.-Omaha Bee.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22

The proposition that the United
States cancel the debt owed it by the
European allies on account of advances
during the war has found some advo-
Gates in this country among persons
who, well meaning though they may
be towards the peoples of those coun-
tries, arc favoring an action which is
not well meant to the people of the
United States. This country has owing
to it about ten billions. 1t was a mode
of using money raised by current taxa
ton. or to be raised by future taxation.
The people are and will be taxed for 1t
either directly or indirectly. Indirectly,
the taxation appears in higher costs, in
decrease of purchasing power of wages
and incomes. The government has no
reservoirs of wealth to draw upon. The
wealth is derived from the productive
industry of the peop7e of the country,
and the total wealth is decreased by just
so much as the government levies upon
it for its own uses. The interest on
this ten billion debt, which is also I'M
paid. Mt five per cent amounts in year
to SJO0,O00O00, The question Of wip-
ing out this debt might be put in this
way: VIII every person in the United
States contribute a hundred dollars each
to this cause?
That in substance is what the propo-
sition mcans-an average contribution
of 500 from each individual of the pop
ulation of the country. The government
is foregoing the payment Of interest on
this debt, and so long as it is carried
along without interest each individual
of the country's population will in one
way or another make an annual contri-
button cf 81 to the interest account. The
government of the United States is itself
in debt for the prosecution of the war
to the extent of son-e $2j,0O0OOO,0O
However many the transmutatiOns may
be, that debt represents what it cost
the people of the country to carry on the
war. Each individual contributed $3.50
on an average 1t is just so much taken
from the wealth of the country in the
terms of the present or in the terms
of the future. 1t should be accounted
to the credit of the sIlied governments
that they are not asking for aims. They
consider that the debt to the United
States is one that should be discharged
and have made no suggestion of desire
to get out of the honorable engagement.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
FOR MAKING PITA FIBRE.
New Machine to DecOrticate 1t from
Wild Pineapple Plant

The rug industry, together with several
of the textile trades, including silk may
be materially benefited in the future by
the invention of a new kind of decorticat-
ing machine which the inventor claims.
win remove the outer covering, shred and
clean variety of wild pineapple plant
technically called Bromelia pinquin and
generally referred to in the cloth indus
tries as rita" This fibre has been
known for its tensile strength and other
qualities for more than fifty years. but
its use has been limited by the crude and
costly preparation of the fibre for spin
ming and weaving
Several of the new machines have been
shipped to Columbia, where an associate
of the inventor is investigating general
conditions of supply, labor, etc, and will
be set up on tract of pinquin near the
Alagdalena river. There is said to be an
unlimited supply of the plant in terri
tory ranging from near Mexico city to
Ecuador and from the eastern foothills Of
the Andes to a limit on the east that has
vet to be determined. 1t is said of the
fibre that it can be divided into one-ten
thousandth of an inch and that it spins
and takes dye well.-N. Y. Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
1oday's Events

Fifty years ago today the American
Woman Suffrage association met in CIeve-
land for its first annual convention.
A special congress of the Trade Union
international meets in London TO-DAY for
the purpose of trying to speed up the
process of European reconstruction
The board of officers Of the Interna-
tional Woman Suffrage alliance meets in
London TODAY 10 select a woman resi-
dent in Geneva to report in a neutral
manner to the Organized women of the
world all facts concerning the operation
of the league of nations
Export trade development on a scale
larger than has ever been attempted in
the women's garment trades will be one
of the most important subjects for dis
cussion at the second annual meeting of
the Associated Dress Industries, of
America. opening today at Atlantic city.
At a dinner to be given at the Wal
dorg storla in New York tonight to cell
citrate the 25th anniversary of the So
ciety of Mayfower Descendants the not
able speakers are to include Vice-Presi-
dent-Elect Calvin Coolidge, Sir William
Mulloch of Toronto, Senator Charles S.
Thomas of Colorado, Senator Moses of
New Hampshire, and Senator Fernald Of
Maine.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
BAD BREATH
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets Get
at the Cause and Remove 1t

DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets, the sub
stitute for calomel. act gently on the
bowels and positively do the work.
People afflicted with bad breath find
quick relief through DR.. Edwards Olive
Tablets. The pleasant, sugar-coated
tablets are taken for bad breath by
all who know them.
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets act gen.
thy but firmly on the bowels and liver.
stimulating them TO natural action,
clearing the blood and gently purifying
the entire system. They do that which,
dangerous calomel does without any
of the bad after effects.
All the benefits of nasty, sickening,
gripping cathartics are derived from
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets without
gripping, painor any disagreeable effects.
DR.. L. M Edwards discovered the
formula after seventeen years OF prac-
tee among patients afflicted with
bowel and liver complaint, with the
attendant bad breath.
Olive Tablets are purely vegetable
compound mixed with olive oil; you
will know them by their olive color.
Take one or two every night for week
and note the effect. 15c and soc.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
THE PRICE OUTLOOK.

News dispatches tell of great price
in the wholesale business of
the country, retailers are making some
and consumers are hoping for
still more reductions. Is that hope well
based? Thousands of retailers would be
glad to know the correct answer to that
question. Some information that should
be authentic is given by the Wall Street
of the Springfield Repub-
lean which shows the extent of liqui-
dation already effected in ten staple
We take from his table
the prices for November, 1913, the high
est prices reached during the war pc
Rod and the prices on November II,
1901.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
FASHIONS IN BATHING.
Various Ways of Keeping Clean i'm the
Animal World

While humans journey far to disport
themselves in the waters of lake or ocean
and trouble themselves much over ques-
tions of one or two-piece bathing suits.
their animal cousins show an instinct
for cleanliness and variety in fashion
of bathing at once interesting and in
structive.
After friend squirrel, the other morn
ing, had sported on the porch roof to
his hearts content and taken his morn
ing exercise bounding from limb to limb
of oak and elm, he decided to take his
bath. So he held one paw with the
other while washing it. and changed so
rapidly from one to the other that he
seemed to be clapping his hands together
in very joy.
Tabby, the cat, has a constitutional
aversion to water. Nevertheless, she
puts her rough tongue TO good use and
brushes herself with the vigOr of a hair
dresser. Domestic fowls share the fe-
line dislike to bathing but they roll in
the cleansing dust with all the ZeSt of
small boy playing in the sand. The lark
also fiutters along the ground and bathes
itself in this way.
Bats, moles. hedgehogs and such an
imals comb themselves with their nails
as with fine-tooth comb. Spiders and
other insects brush their entennae and
mandibles with their forelegs.
Even reptiles are not content to re-
main unclean. Though they cannot con
veniently wash themselves, they discard
their old skins for new ones several
times a year, and face the world with
complete new raiment every few months.
The bath seems to be an acquired
taste among human beings. The small
boy does not take to it kindly, while his
young sister often feels quite satisfied il
only her face, neck and wrists are clean.
Primitive folk do not expend much en-
ergy keeping clean Doctor Grenfell
notes among the people Of Labrador a
decided Indifference toward cleanliness
But most of the four-footed and
feathered creatures show an instinct for
eleanliness: Some OF them are even fas-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
Little Benny's
Note Book

Me and Skinny Martin was wawkIng
along Jest wawking along and stepped
on a loose brick and a squert of muddy
waiter went all over my stocking, me say
ing. Hay, look at that, gosh shang it,
heck, that's a heck of note, heck.
Holey Moses, holey G., sed Skinny.
l dare you to step on 1t, | sed, and
Skinny sed, | CESS you do. Meenlng 1t
wouldent have eny influence on him
weather l dared him or not. and l ,sed.
Aw go on step on it, nuthlng mite hap
pin.
Then wy don't you step on it agen your
self if you're so anxious? sed Skinny, and
/ sed, Aw watts the use getting up ar
gewment, lets stand heer and wait for
people to go past and step on it.
WITCH we started to do, and we waited
a fearse long vile and nobody dident come
and nobody still dident, Skinny saying,
Gosh, ware is everybody? Ded Z and me
saying, Heck, this is only wasting time,
that's all this Is.
I'm going to count up to 100 and if no
body don't come before 100 that's all the
longer I'm going to wait, sed SKINNY.
WITCH wen he got up to 81 some man
started to come up the street, being tat
man and looking like a heavy stopper,
and lest as he was almost up TO the brick
he stopped. saying. I'm afraid I've gone
too far, do you boys know ware Mr..
prlpgle lives -. ,
think its down fertilizer, 7 don't think
you've came to it yet, sed, Me never
having herd of Mr. Pringle and jest say
ing that to influence him to step on. the
brick. and he sed, No. its back ferther;
And he started to go back and me and
skinny kemp on going. feeling diskusted,
Skinny saying, Aw well anyways maybe
he would of stepped over it insted OF, on
il. and me saying, And even if he had OF
stepped or it we wouldent of had eny
ritten garantee it would sauert.
Mich We Mouldent of.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22

Carl A. Mapes, who has been selected
by the president to succeed Wayne John
son as solicitor of internal revenue, is a
lawyer whose professional career has been
devoted la'p.ely to the service of various
branches of the federal government. He
began his career as an attorney in the of
fee of the corporation counsel for the
District of Columbia later becoming an
attorney for the Interstate Commerce
commission. During the period of the
war he served as assistant general coun-
sci for the United States Railroad com
mission. In the early part Of this year
he entered the service of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue as special attorney in
charge Of criminal cases and later was
promoted to assistant solicitor. Mr.
apes is a native of Albion. Mich. and re-
caived his legal training at the George
Washington University Law school.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
TOI1y's Anniversaries.

l652-The province of Maine was. at tn
request of it's inhabitants. taken I'm
der the protection of Massachus
etts.
l784-Parrtown (now ST. john became
the capital of New Brunswick.
179+-Alicia Cockburn, who wrote some
Of the most exquisite of Scottish
songs, died. Born Oct 8, l7l3.
l80l-The pillory was used for the last
time in Boston
lS3S-Frecdom of the City of London
voted to Thomas GARRISON, slavery
aholitionist
l87O-First annual meeting of American
Woman Suffrage association opened
at Cleveland.
lS75-Henry Wilson. the cohbler who be
came vice-president. died suddenly
in Washington Born at Farming
ton. y. H Feb. u, 1912.
l9lS-French advance guards entered
Strassburg capital of Alsace
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
More Memories of Mr. Shaw.
Randolph Herald.

The Rutland Herald felicitates Rev. H.
III. Shaw, 50 years old, serving his 9th
year as pastor of a charge at Marlboro.
The Bennington Banner editor went to
school to Mr.. Shaw many years ago at
West Brattleboro, he says. Probably some
time before that the writer did the same
at Mortified. And we little shavers used
to run when we saw "Old Shaw coming.
In later years, the appellation changed its
meaning, if not its form. Mr.. Shaw has
served several sessions as a valuable mem
Der of the state legislature. Whether as
teacher, preacher or legislator, he has
done his duty faithfully and efficiently.
And he will carry on to the end.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22

The Retor1ner Is on ssIs every evening by
the following news dealers:
Brattleboro, Brattleboro NewS Co. Z. "
CIravrland S L. P1rinton (EsteyvIlle),
Brooks House Pharmacy, Aliens Depot News
stand. Gilbert J. Pollica, 297 South Main St.
Fort Drummer district.
@eSt 5 B5at5ls9GIGi IT, z ' BTovS
Putney, n. G. Williams.
Newfane, N. NJ. Batchsldsr.
wet Townshend, c. h GroEt.
Jamaica, R. J. DsGEett.
sa1th londonderry, z. Fl. Tyler.
soufh Vernon, z. B. Bufum.
Eorthhsld, Mass, Thompson Bros.
west Chesterfield, n. h, MrE. ". BtTsster'
Htnsdafg, N. ri w. RI. Lyman.
G9eeuheld, Mass, Greenfield News Co.
e;rsepSeId, Mass, c. 4. Hays.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
A Different Undertaking.
bellows Falls Times.)

History is repeating itself in Brattle-
bor0. The Chamber Of Commerce there
is inactive, in fact almost defunct. and
there are grave doubts of a successful res
direction. Nobody is willing to assume
the responsibility of holding office, prob
ably because experience has shown that
those who hold office have the honor and
also all the work. Keeping Chamber of
Commerce alive in Vermont is about the
most difficult undertaking allotted to man.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
Today's Birthdays.

Johnny Dundee, welIknown pugilist,
born in Sharkai, q years ago today.
Heber J. Grant. the official head of the
Mormon church. born in Salt Lake city,
81 years ago today.
Frederick Won Bernhard. author of
Germany and the Next War, born at Pet
rograd, II years ago today.
Cyrus f. Dallin, the sculptor who de-
signed the Pilgrim memorial half-dollar
born at SDringville, Utah, SO years ago
today.
Representative John n. Garner of
Texas mentioned among the possibilities
for minority leader in the house. born
in Red River county, Texas, 81 years ago
TODAY
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
TO TIE SUBSCRIBERS.

II 10 the aim of the mAukEemuat TO sesure
efficient service in tie delivery of the paper
each night. and II solieits the corporation OF
subscribers to that end. Prompt reports should
be riyen Of each failure TO receiJe the paper
on the morning following the omission, IN
person, by telephone or postal card, thus IN
ablink tie cause of tho error TO DO promptly
edy Immediately applied. It IL only by thi'
method that the publishsr San secure tAs de-
sired Rervic@
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
Recognition ofsService.
{ RntIanl Heralll

EL%ULIdIIU IItTdII.I
Not only his friends and well-wishers
in Rutland and vicinity, but practically
all who have had business with the office
during the past 20 years. will join with
The Herald in suggesting the appointment
of Frank II. Chapman as United States
marshal would be mere recognition Of
long, efficient and faithful service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22

If the city of Milwaukee looks upon
those two bottles of beer and the plate
of pretzels recently placed in a glass case
in the public museum for preservation
as belonging to the things that were,
the rest of the thirsting public might as
well be resigned.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
The Vatican,

The Vatican, the palace of the pope
in Rome and "ns of the largest in the
world, contains valuable collection
of works of art, and is one of the
chief attractions of the city. 1t is
storehouse of literary treasures and
documents of interest bearing on the
history OF the Middle ages.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
"Sone Game" Is Right
(Rntland Herald.l


An article in The Free Press asserts
that The Herald eliminates BrattleborO
as a contender for the preparatory school
football championship of Vermont Rub
Dish! The two teams are scheduled to
play here next week-and it will be some
game! But it might mean elimination,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22

The manufacturers of the contents of
the - bottles of "Sub-Rosa," contis-
Gated by the Barre officials as being bit
beyond the one-half Of one per cent
class, selected a particularly suitable
name for their product.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
Needs Re-Vitalizing.
(Barre Times.)

The decision of Brattleboro people to
their chamber of commerce,
the existence of which was seriously
threatened through lack of attention, is,
Df course, the wise course. A town of
the size of Brattleboro without an or.
taniz5ti6hI haFing a pfurpose st67 lo6B
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22

Afraid of being separated by the
pranks of their friends, a bridal couple
of Rockland, Me, were married
shacllled together with handouts. The
safest way would be to handcuff the
guests.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22

Down in Cuba, where the New York
Giants have been playing ball, Babe
Ruth isn't basking in as much glory as
he has been accustomed to. Torriente,
a member of the team which met the
Giants, eclipsed the efforts of Ruth by
hitting three homers in one game.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22

after the interests of the town would be
left in bad condition. These boards of
trade and chambers of commerce may
mean great deal to the communities in
which they are located. and also, indi-
rectly,t to the state. They not only
should be maintained but should be re
vitalized now and then.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22

ten as far as St. Johns At that time he
began to recognize names of places that
he passed through and then remembered
being given two rides, one of which finally
landed him in Montreal. At Montreal he
seemed to recover his memory quickly.
Except for the two auto rides mentioned,
Clifford probably walked all of the woy
from Burlington to Montreal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
One Year Ago Today.

The National Labor party was organ
lied at Chicago.
The Prince of Wales concluded his visit
to the United States.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-22
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