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Show WATER OF PECULIAR VIRTUE : j Trouble With Philadelphia Visitor Was That He Didn't Understand Just j How to Use It. I Harry N. Taylor, president of the National Coal association, said in Washington : "It takes an optimist to look at the' situation hopefully an optimist like Itllteiiho'jse Walnut of Philadelphia. "Kiueiihoiise Walnut, in the days he-I he-I fore Philadelphia got a filter plant, laughed heartily one evening at a friend who c.nnplalned that the Philadelphia Phila-delphia water was too muddy to bathe In. "'Why, my boy,' said Rlttenhouse, 'our Philadelphia water Is the best In the world for bathing purposes. Why, It beats Marlenbad.' " 'But It's so muddy.' " 'That's the point,' said Rittenhonse. 'It's medicinal mud, full of phosphates and calories and things. Tonight you try a Philadelphia water bath, a good, long bath, and you'll feel like a new man. Let me caution you, though, to use no towel !' "'No towel?' sneered the other. 'No towel, eh?' "'No, sir; no towel,' said Rittenhonse. Ritten-honse. 'Just stand before the radiator and let the water dry on you. Then brush it off.' " |