Bathsheba's Bath

Bathsheba's Bath

POOR Uriah! No one was more innocent than he, no one more unsuspecting. He never strayed from the straight and narrow path, yet he met a sudden and mysterious death.

That unfortunate man was away on a trip when his wife, Bathsheba, chose to take a bath. Roof gardens in those days were enjoyed by even the humble, but Bathsheba must have been somewhat reckless, for she used hers as an open air plunge.

But it chanced the same evening, while the fair Bathsheba splashed on her roof amid the gardenias and poinsettias, that King David, whose palace was near by, happened to look down from the ramparts of his own roof garden.

Bathsheba was very beautiful to look upon, and David looked right down upon her! Maybe she winked, perhaps she nodded, nobody knew except David. At any rate she was entertained at the palace that evening.

Now it came to pass that when David learned that Bathsheba was the devoted spouse of one, Uriah, he called his counselors and his generals and gave them directions of the most explicit kind.

"Put this man Uriah where the danger is greatest," said David, "and see that he doesn't turn his back."

His orders were obeyed. And the next day's casualty news told of the death of Uriah. Then David sought the sorrowful widow, the fetching

Folder No. 8

Bathsheba's Bath, Pittsburg Water
Heater brochure (first page of
copy) written by Hart Crane at
the Corday and Gross Company in
1922.

Photographed by Carroll T. Hart-
well, photographer for the Minn-
eapolis Institute of Arts, from
the original brochure loaned by
Dr. G. W. Freeman, De Land, Flor-
ida.

Bathsheba's Bath, Pittsburg Water
Heater brochure (inside pages of
copy) written by Hart Crane at
the Corday and Gross Company in
1922.