Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-01-18 | Page 26 | Too Much Bathing

Too Much Bathing I achieved a new distinction last summer says a department woman and it wasa distinction not without a tinge of embarrassment for me 1 spent my vacation down in North Carolina at a little inn up In the mountains All the water for the house was carried In buckets from a spring some little distance dis-tance away and I had often occasion to complain of the smallness of the supply brought me Every blessed morning I had to step out to the gallery and shout to empty spaco for my bath water One morning I nearly wore my lunga out before be-fore the laundress who wait busy In the back yard took pity on me At last time called out to somebody In the detached kitchen II Mary theres 1 a lady hollerln1 for water Mary come to the door of the kitchen kitch-en and I could see thai she was a new servant t What lady she calls out I The laundress had evidently forgotten forgot-ten my name but she Identlfid me by a reference to my habits The lady that takes a bath everyday every-day she shrieked back and as the new Mary walked out to the kettle of water heating over the charcoal fire In the yard I heard her say I jjvy clay cvy day These yenj Nothen people sure docs git they scfs powful dlrhty Washington Post