Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-22 | Page 25 | 'Movies' are Seen from Bath Tubs

'MOVIES' M SEEK FROMJTII TUBS Entertainment Oddity Provided Pro-vided for Wounded Soldiers Sol-diers in Cambridge. , LONDON, rec. 21. (By the Associated Press.) A moving picture audience in ba t h tu bs th rough which warm wa ter flows, is the entertainment oddity provided pro-vided in fiim shows by the American Y. if. C. A. at the hospital under the shadows of King's college, Cambridge, where wounded men from France are treated. In one ward certain of the patients who have had very serious, septic wounds are having the water treatment. To look at these men you might think they were lying comfortably in bed, propped up with pillows. They are really sitting in bath tubs in water to their waists. A constant stream of water with a temperature of ninety-eight is kept running through ihe tub, purifying and cleansing the wounds, which have no other dressing. A kind of magnified lapboard covers the top of the tuo, and is in turn covered by a long, bright patch guilt. And there the men sit on air cushions, leaning against air pillows, day and night, sometimes some-times for weeks at a time. Only the most serious cases are put into these baths men who otherwise have little chance of recovery and none without the amputation of a limb. But never yet has a case so treated been lost. "It's beastly - uncomfortable the first week." said the record case of the ward, a British Tommy, who was for eleven weeks in the bath. "Your legs ache, and you have the water rash. But in a week, at most, you get over that, and then it is more comfortable than being in bed. In fact, after thy put you back in bed you can't sleep' for a while, it's so hard." The American Y. M. C. A. has been sending these men "movies" twice a week. A screen has been arranged at one end of the hut and there all the screen favorites fa-vorites play their prts while the men sit conifortibly in thrir warm tubs. And when the show is over, all they have to do is to turn out the light and go to sleep.