Show THE BATH IN LAW Question Now Before a California Cou Court Court- 1 i for r c Decision i. i What constitutes a bath bath This Is a peculiar question with willi which California court Is now i w wrestling wrest wrest- ling An anxious world Impatiently awaits walts the decision A California householder Is being sued for the price of a beater heater that that that- was as guaranteed to heat sufficient water for fora a n bath and the defendant has proved that it supplied s only 35 gallons of ot hot f water which he alleged to be Insufficient s clent for fora a bath T The e plaintiff Insisted that 35 gallons Is ample declaring that a man could g get wet get t wet first on on one side and then on the the other and that it Is not necessary necessary necessary sary that he should take ta plunge c In Ina Ina a a swimming pool i L On On- this his question n the iss Issue e Is joined The court has the matter under advisement ad ad- ylse ent The decision will of course be of if ili great importance no sip nO matter matter- on which which side it Is is' rendered The legal quantity of water ater necessary to a legal bath ought to be clearly defined denned for the r protection of the public public against against people who evidently regard a pint or so sumo clent Bible students will r recall the fact that among the ancient Hebrews the J bath was a regular liquid measure and scholars have agreed on eight and on one half gallons as it its modern va lent It would seem therefore that n if It eight and one half gallons was the regulation regulation amount for bodily ablutions ons 1 in the days of Solomon then 35 galLY gallo gal- gal r LY Ions lo s ought to be ample at the present resent time lime This Important fact As Is cited not from any desire delre to unduly influence the court but merely to substantiate the point that the bath ought to to be legally denned defined asH was In the time of Solomon r i i A And d when the requirements requirement have 1 b been n fixed even Chicago professors G. G ought to be made to conform to them i. i V Worcester Gazette |