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Show WONDERS OF NEXT CENTURY H Improvements Which Will Do Away H with Much Trouble o tho H Insert Generation. I "Tho bath of tho next century," H says T. Iiaron ItiiBscll In his boolc "A H Hundred Years Hence," "will lavo tho H body speedily with oxygenated water H delivered with n forco that will render rubbing unn 'cssary, nnd bcsldo It will stand tho drying cupboard, lined H with soma quickly moving nrrango-M nrrango-M tnent ot soft brushes, nnd fed with a K ulghly desiccated air, from which al- moBt In a .moment, tho bather will H emerge, dried, nnd with a skin gently B stimulated, and perhaps electrified, to H clotho himself quickly and pass down H tho lift to his breakfast, which he will H eat to the accompaniment of n sum-H sum-H .mary of tho morning's nows read out H for tho benefit of the family, or wills B pcred Into .his ear by u. talking mall ma-ll chlno." V Dishwashing will bo easy In that Hi day. Dirty plates and dishes, for cx- H ample, "will be simply dropped ono by H ono into an nutomatlc receptacle; It ewlllcd clean by -water delivered with B force nnd charged with nascent oxy-K oxy-K . gen; dried by electric heat, and pol-t pol-t J ished by electric forco, being finally I oxygon-bathed ns n superfluous act of H sanitary cleanliness beforo being sent H to table again. And all thai has come H off tho plates will drop through tho H scuUory floor Into the destructor bo- HJ ncath to bo oxygenated nnd made away with." Hj There will bo many other lmprove- RJ mcnts. Trains will gnthcr speed J mora rapidly; moving platforms will HJ do awny with tho need of stopping HJ trains nt every stntlon. People will IH have moro accidents to avoid, nn they IH will bo cleverer In avoiding them. On IH small flying machines they will visit IH mountain tops on Saturday nftornoons IB "lor (nonalcoholic) picnics." Actors H will only play onco In ono part; for IH their porformnnrcs will bo reproduced IH by a perfected klnotoscopo and phono- H graph. |