Show r Saturday Night in Japan k sI kI I iMM 5 4 iv 4 45 be OME on in the he waters water's fine COME C Bathing In Japan is on a different plane from ours as these two Ameri Amen American can gentlemen can tell you Tubs are arc perpendicular there instead of hori hori- horizontal hori hori- horizontal and you stand in the water up to your neck But we shouldn't laugh at this somewhat primitive scene ac ae ac- ac according cording to Consumers Information which points out that only a hundred years ago there were only 1500 bath bath- bathtubs bathtubs tubs in the United States all of them in Philadelphia where they had a city water system and taxed each tub President Fillmore installed the first tub in the White House In 1850 Advertising of the advantages of ot convenient and sanitary bathing started 31 years later has continued increasingly ever ever since and has made the United States the cleanest nation on earth Even the most ad ad- ad advanced advanced European nations are far tar be be- be behind behind hind us in this respect and arid the pos pos pos- possession possession session of a bathtub in most countries is a sign not only of opulence but os os- os ostentation ostentation The United States Is among the few countries generally educated to the knowledge that health and cleanliness go together |