Show I 1 A yankee in a shower bath I 1 kind Kin reader lid did you ever take taace a shower bath I 1 mean a right cold one and in cool weather it you have you know how bow to appreciate the feelings of my friend tom C G 1 upon the momentous occa sion of othis his filst shower bath in the city of abston and monah of march tom C hails from ft a long g N vay y down east himself to he was brought or as he used say up as near to sunrise as lie he could get without burning and where the woods were so thick the moon rise without help he stands six feet two natural and six feet six when he stretches his breadth is not quite in proportion although ins his bones were gotten gottell up for a giant had they been fairly covered with flesh he would have been invaluable to barnum Bar nuin the truth is tom was very lean indeed and his leanness annoyed him exceedingly his clothes would be open at the elb elbows aws and knees in halt half the time fame of his fatter fellows and tom vowed to get fat if only for the sake of economy some kind friend recommended the gymnasium as likely to be beneficial and tom forthwith enrolled himself at Sher lans it was I 1 first met him and a right right good fellow with plenty of fun and wit in him he e proved to be in spite of his unpromising u x to 1 A among 0 he gymnasts lasts dr was conspicuous tt only f for r his skill ski in all athletic teats feats but also for iris s beautiful be aut ifill compact form and superabundant muscle when he peeled his arms pd and chest looted looked as a wom comans womans wo mans aills and yet as muscular as those of a pocket hercules how our friend rom icom envied the doctor many questions did lie he put to bun about regimen exercise exercise ac and their effect in producing prod acing flesh upon the human bunian fiame the doctor attributed this redundancy to plenty of exercise plenty to eat and above all to the daily use rise of the shower bath waal said tom one day daywitt with his inimitable drawl pm sure ive shinned chinned up and down these ladders and ropes long anuff as for ettig taint to be expected that one man can eat beruff to fatten such an all all ali fired skeleton as mine I 1 wish I 1 kiy be bained t I 1 dont try that shower bath you tell me so much about abety As tom and I 1 were as thick as two thin men could coul id I 1 be e I 1 volunteered to show him where he could et at one in choit order we accordingly started for the lunsted states hotel then called texas in the basement story of this house were a large number of bathing looms fitted up with hot cold and shower baths the latter were very temporary wooden boxes standing in on end with doors bolting on the inside and a 0 very capacious shobei vel ing apparatus in the top i I 1 I 1 went in to take a baim bath while tom made ready beady for his cold one in the next room As the partitions were very thin I 1 0 lum him soliloquizing something after this fashion f waal now that upright coffin with holes in the bottom and a sieve in tile the to top ead may pass for a shower uth bath here but I 1 guess if we had it down east atwould nit babe be long before we had ha d it so for eels 1 blast the thing wonder how it works here you susan sally your name calling the servant ant girl i juist come here and show me how the c ritter works I 1 If lont t see no shower oh my P cried the girl dont you yon know howd why ills easy enough you pull this ere string and I 1 guess see a shower and feel it too tom who stood outside caught hold of the string string ind and before the girl irl could interfere gave it a L I 1 OUS pull when down own c came e a deluge of water spat 1 t triine i Z them and sw swimming ing the carpet I 1 e now new you see said the girl indignantly i yes I 1 see now replied tom very coolly auttus va s amused me considerably but I 1 had a sentiment that the tun fun was not finished i tom ad adjourned loureed to the loom on the other side of jame and the girl to wiping up the c carpet a T t before tom had gotten ready to enter his bath I 1 was out of nane mine and nearly dressed AU all had been bee n still in the L monitor several minutes except an occasional mutter I 1 wg of discontented sentences such as cc wonder what there is about this to fatten a man wever never heard noah was very tat fat and he took one toi foi forty days mighty small place to stuff my carease carcase I 1 to guess there much danger of the water bring mg u up hi high g h anuff to drown me wonder it if twill ll 11 an any t thing as th that t blasted shower did down to t it at ath ill last as summer er L ac I 1 I 1 heard r him I 1 after stepping into his closet shut the lor r which ic he e carefully bolted and the next minute e e ere r e c came e a crashing slam islain bang on the floor that tha t ad a ide d e the e house onse shake followed by hy the most terrific i reams earns 0 and shouts of oh coh 1 oh oh lord olif ol old 01 h launder ader i and light nina murder firel water I 1 ti me out im drowning poi foi gods sake help ill 1 ae ending by calling on me vociferously I 1 in an instant not only 1 I but every servant and all ra 8 within hear hearing mg male and female were in the I 1 in i although he be had not ceased shouting nothing as to be seen of tom but in the centre of the floor floo r d I 1 the shower baan door downwards and thew the whole bole I 1 fair absolutely jumping from toms superhuman I 1 forts 0 ort A s to relieve himself we rolled it over the a nor lor flew open and out tumbled the most astonishing ikass ws of arms legs slid and body ever presented to the astonished toni shed gaze of human e eyes e one moment was given to astonishment the women omen 8 scampered amp eTed and then mortal could stand it ii no apker er we rolled on the floor in little short of convulsions corn raised himself up tip too happy in his fancied escape to be very angry at us its yet evidently a trying t to me some dignity dignity fro from in such a figure in ach ch a p plight t I 1 i 1 we roared louder than ever and D pom finding adin it was as no use boned in the chorus until e QS were ere co compelled e ed to sto stop from sheer exhaustion he e then having avi hustled ustle on apart a part of his garments I 1 answered ered 0 our repeated inquiries of how cahow it hap bened ed P why you see when I 1 got into that infernal man r lap there I 1 bolted the door and then it took me some 11 me e to screw up my courage I 1 knew it was all fired e aid d and so I 1 thour thought ht I 1 would bring down the shower r li little e at a time waal you see I 1 pulled the string connarn con sarn it kinder softly about an inch tu tit once i had ad m my shoulders d dhawn lawn up my mv head down my eyes e nd toot teeth shut and gave it another little pull when er chouse 11 came a anub hull ocean of or ice water right lap ap on my head taking away my breath and fail fahily ly 5 padding me I 1 made made one jump tor for the door but ie e thing was bolted and over went the hull ae ine ikei sla I 1 on the floor 1 then I 1 got go frightened thought I 1 was di owning sure anuff maybe I 1 didt ro sing sine out and try to strike out but no use filled the machine so full I 1 stir deduff only i knock all the skin skim off my knees and elbows just len i ni you came ill in and let me out and you know all e le r rest boti s Plague nation take tile the shower bath 1 1 I rould nt take another if to r make aake me as fat as addy lambert ill nor has pool tom to this day but i hmains aills a perfect calvin edson on a mammoth scale CHEVAL |