The Washington herald., 1922-09-19


w benighted with the order of
the bath? II was a tough battle but
in 1851 President Fillmore had a bath
tub installed in the White House and
that put the okeh on the thing and
from then on the bathtub business
began to pick up. But the battle was
long aud hard from the time the first
tub was installed In Cincinnati In De-
cember, 1si2. II must have been a
Christmas present from the head Of
the house. 1t was lined in mahogany
and sheet lead and exhibited with
some pride by The owner at a Christ
mas house party.
The new Invention immediately
caused a great deal Of criticism, from
physicians. State legislatures and the
press. It was criticized by some
papers as an epicurean luxury. while
other denounced il as undemocratic.
Doctors we're unanimous in the opin-
ion that this method Of bathing would
lead to all kinds of rheumatic fevers,
and the common council of Philadel-
phia only failed by two votes to make
bathing illegal between November i
and March is. A law passed in vir-
ginia placed an annual tax Of $50 on
each bathtub. and Boston lawmakers
made the use of the bathtub illegal
except on the advice Of a physician.
This shows the world do move. Z"
says Arthur N. Pack, who Joins the
Long Memory Club by turning in this
valuable piece OF information. Who
remembers when the next bathtub
was installed in Washington?
From the Uniontown, Pa, Herald Cy
Wentworth sends the following adv.
and wants to know IL YOU can hear
uniontown's union suit shrek for
higher education from where you
sit:
kimons Psrties-Thcse Delightful stolen
hours OF Intimacy and confidence just shrek
Tor dainty different nerlerees. The girI who
goes away TO school simply must have one
whatever else she goes without Il may be
printed or, even, q lovable lacy crepe de
chine fairy web but II must be.
"Ab" Won Nevius, of the Riggs
Bank, has been taken up by golf
and is being treated roughly. Under
the careful misdirection OF Duke
Goodwin. the earl of Baltimore. "Ab"
Is getting over the turf in great
shape: In such great shape in fact
that NJ. Loeffler. the host at the
golf dubs emporium, longs for win
ter TO overtake us and give the
grass a chance for its life. The
"Ab" Is but an abbreviation of the
full name which really is Alb Rassie
Won Nevius- Welcome to the ranks
of the Sunrise Club. "Ab."
finds trouble In getting acts for his
show house this winter he will do
well to enter his subscription for
the Cong. Rec. which no library
table should not be decorated
with. To while away an idle
hour in the winter months, now
close upon us, or to help feed the
furnace In the absence of coal, there
can be no greater asset. Here is a
particularly tempting passage at
arms that. properly staged, should
go we'll on Saturday night bill
when Woodrow Wilson attends:
Mr.. Caraway: 1 did not miss the
Senator. II he had been absent ]
should have been just as happy and
the Senate would have been Just
as enlightened, because the oues-
ton before the Senate was dis
cussed. and when that is done the
Senator from Minnesota never takes
part in the discussion ..
Mr.. Kellogg: There are others
who would not have been missed.
Mr.. Caraway: know that. There
are three or four Senators on the
other side of the chamber-for in
stance. the chairman Of the COM
mittee.. who brought in a monkey
show here when that was not before
the Senate by any rule of the SEN
ate. though there were some ex-
hibits that evidently were in order:
and the Senator from Indiana (Mr.
Watson) also had a cuckoo clock
and a monkey show when that
schedule was not before the Senate
I am sorry the Senator from Mime
sofa has got to rush OF now, but
he is In a hurry.-congressional
Record. - :
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to Gov. Print. OF. Avoid substitutes
and take no other.
II winter comes can the coal be