Show USES BATHTUB AS I BUSINESS EXAMPLE NEW YORK May ray 2 Fred Fred Kelly In InThe InThe inThe The Nations Nation's Business says that whenever whenever when when- ever a a. man starts to launch a new enterprise enterprise enterprise en en- or sell a useful but hitherto unheard-of unheard article let him stop and recall what happened when bathtubs were first Introduced Within the memory of many people still living the lambasted menace to bathtub was as a I democratic simplicity and a danger to I health I An ordinance was introduced In in Philadelphia Philadelphia and and almost passed passed to to prohibit bathing between November I and March Boston made bathing unlawful unlawful unlawful un un- un- un lawful except on medical advice Vir Vir- Virginia ginia imposed a tax on bathtub owners of 30 a year Yet let everybody knows knows' now that having a a. bathtub In the house is a rate first Idea Bathing was l probably even more needed more needed then but people eople t resented bathtubs because they I were new Many new ideas are made commercially successful but usually I there ther are difficulties The public resents resents re- re a novelty I |