Show A LITTLE TOO PRIMITIVE shower bath arrangement something of a shock to the participant august belmont Bel mout at a dinner in saratoga praised the seaside towns of new england but some of them he added are a little too primitive I 1 remember a story about tho the primitive town of rockford rockford had a rough bathing establishment with a shower bath you stood in your bathhouse and pulled a rope and a deluge of cool water descended from the ceiling well a lady visitor stood one day in her bathhouse ready for the shower she pulled the rope and braced herself but no shower followed she gave the rope another tug when the gruff voice of the sailor proprietor ot of the establishment sounded from aloft stand a vint more to nor east cast mum it said it if ye want to get the full force and tho the horrified lady looking up saw the old sailor frowning IMP impatiently through a hole in the ceiling and tilting a barrel of sea water for the shower |