Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-10
THIS AND THAT
by CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

of cold fact 1t is the most interesting
! and useful room in the home.
| Especially does really hot weather call
attention to the wonder of the modern
| bath, whether 1t be a humble affair
| with no more than n tub or one o.
| these palatial places decorated accord
| ing to the latest dictates of young ladies
who specialize in just such matters.
| The beauty Of having river at COM
mand is appreciated to its full worth
when the thermometer registers Sc de-
grees in the shade.
| Nothing but bath will restore ones
! equilibrium when Nature pours forth
| the honest sweat, and dogs pant and
cats try to keep cool under the buffet,
and flies attempt TO fight their way
into houses through screens, and
Junior tries to unlock the screen door
| In order to get out,
Then, If ever. comes the perfect bath
The mere shedding of clothes. that
| necessary preliminary, puts one into
better frame of mind. Let it be said
in passing. that right frame of mind
Is as necessary in bathing as in any
other pursuit. Recall Johnnie. who
kicks and screams because he "doeSn t
wanna take a bath"
Lively appreciation of the boon Of
a bath is at once the best preliminary
to and the best state of mind for a
sousing shower One ought not TO greet
such a success as the modern bath as
| If 1t were commonplace. Even the
mightiest Roman Of them all. to wit
Julius Caesar, when he wanted to take
bath had to go to the public baths.
Today we Americans battle at home
with more splendor than the Romans
ever knew without as much publicity
X Il
A bath still remains the most private
affair of the private citizen.
One may sing in his bath. or keep
silent in it, but almost always he takes
1t alone
Solitude best fits the home bather.
Aloofness characteri2es the tired buSi-
ness man when he kicks off his shoes
and so on and retires through the door
of the bathroom.
He may have been sociable all day
long, may have treated his employees
with cordially, may have eaten lunch
at club where hundreds called him by
his first name, but when he gets home
and desires to lave himself he becomes
as unsocial as clam.
Every bathroom ought to have sign
on II SUCH as OLle ADlIlttAultS aeCo VII
business Office doors, 'Priyate--Keep
Out"
The sanctity of the bath is something
like that Of the mails.
One as seldom opens bathroom door
when the sounds Of a bath issue forth
as he does letter which is not his.
1t Is just something that isn't done.
This is. to us, the beauty Of the bath,
that in 1t one may retire and be alone
for time with the most agreeable tand
sometimes most disagreeable) Of all per-
sons, his precious self
When one thinks of the affairs Of life
that call for crowding together. their
number and force. he Is all the more
grateful to any institution that will
allow him to be by himself for while.
The bathroom is almost the sole place
in a modern home where man may be
free, at least for a time. from the in
trusion of others.
In this hot weather let us make the
most Of II. and rejoice, not only in the
bath itself but in the seclusion which it
affords weary mortals AS Tiny Tim
didn't say, God bless us every one in
our BATH