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Show The Bathe of London. There are as many great baths in Lon- j don as there are theatres in New York city. They are Turkish, Roman, vapor, electric, swimming, medicated, hot, cold, j tepid and salt. The most interesting are the great public baths. Nearly every district of London has one, and often there aro public wash houses in connection connec-tion with them. Some of tho older of these buths are dark and more or less gloomy, but the newer ones are very inviting. in-viting. Take the Battersea public bath us an example. Its first class tank is 100 feet long by 85 feet wide, with a depth of 0 feet at ono end and 3b feet at tho other. It is lined with white glazed bricks, roofed with wood and iron and ventilating skylights, and has fifty looked dressing boxes. In the same building there is a second class buth, 7.") feet by 25 feet in size, At certain times women use both baths. The water is heated when it is desirable. These baths are distinctly popular. The first class price Varies from a shilling to fourpence, and tho second class from sixpence to twopence, two-pence, the cheaper batiis being those in the more thickly populated parts of tho city. The wash houses connected with many of tho baths seem to be of very great public benefit. Julian Ralph in Harper's Weekly. |