Show 0 ai ani 1 p ak V ok 1 A 4 iwa k N T R Q fax jl 5 x al 4 4 3 i if 1 a I 1 g il s ak I 1 p 1 i 71 7 1 1 f dwir ih ay 3 n A ar A tt I 1 K il X X 41 11 n U BA r azo dy by ELMO SCOT scoty y WATSON fill it other day a newspaper C 1 7 jj grapher observed that this is tile the bath tub aad two decades ago amerlean american families ere fortunate who owned ft a bath tub now they pro vide lie buthis bantlis for their birds baths tor for 7 tile the lugs logs and cats and enthusiastic j gord gardeners eners are even een bathing their willits if tp bet alil of gernis germs that hint menace plant life it was as probably during those two decades loci t des flint the lie american trad tradition filon of if the 8 night bath ball originated 4 a tradition which Is perpetuated today mainly tun in the form florin of jokes since the bathing habits of americans as reflected in the observation cited quoted ui ted alme laboye hive have r rendered entler ed it obsolete divere Is another tradition retailing relating to bath tillis on ami hn aneer eer which Is firmly believed tn ili by ninny anier amei t leans anns that Is the I 1 lai it I 1 belief 1110 brath till adb nas tva s invented in 1840 to by y ilmah I 1 named achim ad m who ho lived in cincinnati and that tills wealthy resident of the cincinnati I 1 0 ohio do city slant simply ly bauleo over ills neighbors by installing at a stationary tub with etli plumbing such as we e know it today adiv the hie only trouble with that story is that it was olt nil u fake conceived concel it ID the mind 3 of tint cy lical cor commentator trien 0 on it american habits and customs customs afe a ry 1 I 1 Her acken editor editor of I 1 the hie american mercury in 1010 1016 wrote itra an artic article IL for a now new york newspaper tn in which tie lie ascribed the invention of tile lie bath tub ant and praised i I 1 bilm tin for foi I 1 his I 1 Is invention alva story wits was taken serl ouila find and to tills flits lay day even though mr in recent years ears confess confessed rd that flint tile the story was a lions hoax many people helee it Is true and there are standard reference arks works which state that radam adam thompson of cincinnati installed the first modern bath tub till in america in 1840 A well know n magazine in this country re recently c antly i rep bated tile story and nd also lot told d tills flits one wili which chmay may or may not be equally plant every modern hotel today has a bath for bior room anti anil elwin cleanliness litie s tins has become suca such a fk alt in america that many modern homes are buelt ill it with a bath for each bedroom yet ret it Is only lod lut years tears ago that andrew jackson had a cinde tin till bath tub removed from the white house lothal so that the pioneers who io hall had elected him film avo uld not bo ba offended by this flits evidence of dandl red fled living rand ond finn bilm as undemocratic the i white tul tub was tin an oversized wash aastra to to water had to he carried cair led and was vas Ilist installed filled by h ws about ulious 1810 1 0 As ai ii tr matter or of tart liate tuba were used in this country even een in ili pre war ar days studies of elvi lizi irions show that till all people who had find any degree floare of had sanitary facilities rind and it Is only natural to ns sume flint lite lie american gave consi considers cons derd tion to personal persona plem illness even eien it if they hicy did not enjoy tile lie filk highly lily developed develop eq plumbing systems s steins which are found I 1 in n modern homes in tile lie united strates states As tit in many kotlier it tier things lings ti benjamin franklin wils was 11 pioneer ineer in the advocacy ey of tan thing land and i tile the ilse nf of n 11 huh tul nil when there were cohath bath tubs in american homes and file general custom wits was to tn battle but bill sel seldom dotti frankiln ivas aa tin an dvo aavo cate of 0 frequent bathing ands and took a hot bath twice it a eak sins sam a 11 va enss wage ine in tile the hook hiie the amazing lin Voni plied ind and edited by 3 henry Sit anthe lythe jr ir anil and published by the frederick Frederi tk A company recently poe of the illustrations in that amik shows franklin sit ting in it n sti bath sit nilar to tile the al marat tirril hath tub ful illustrated ahbe while a boy Is IR hell heat ing vatar ili id kettles suspended front froin a crane in art an open fireplace near by bv in tile llie hork book Is tile the statement ment flint pi dinklin alao art und practiced air canth ing fail and lohn john adapts maintained that taint franklin itans ii a fiellin of lilt its on ro theor theories Jes about air ar so it wits ss hint flint tile the craze for air and sun bun la Is nothing w newn nl I 1 all al I 1 it 1 I wits was due to Frank lills influence that ahe the city of fit wm na in it advance of other cities in its arrangements lie ho if mr alena in find pi iced ef f ills his ili of tile the hall tuli tub in rather thau than in invin lie would woid allive made ills fits story even in mure ire balle uble ihlia till li tillie the bite 18 its s in dolphin bath luhs falls nil and the lie report of the watering committee of nf thill city fir fair 1837 1937 nolea pint 11 bilth tubs were receiving water waler from froin the schuylkill water on dercher 13 3 TSA SOA tiow R whatever the lie date ot of the first use ot of a buth bath tub in america may limy tune have been and it Is doubtful if that historical first can ever tie lie satisfactorily determined the use of tills convenience or rather rut lier necessity goes buck back to the beginnings of the human race the enri earliest lest record of plumb ing Is found in the british museum it Is a reproduction of crude paintings in european eaves caves mode it Is estinia estimated ted more thain a million years ngo those these paintings show the men of that flint per period 10 d running water through it hollow log ing from a spring into a clive cave the cities of Ila ilaryon byon and mesopotamia had systems of running water bathrooms were nn nil important part of the palace of king hing minos of crete this e lias has been parti tilly excavated and the remains show that king 1 minos enjoyed the finest system of plumbing known in the ancient world the great mogul who founded tits empire in india years before christ cohsed considered public baths as important as colleges in de ve eloping loping civilization anti anil he created them on a great scale egyptians practiced bathing regularly even before that flint era and in greece lycurgus made himself famous as the first advocate of the cold bath when he forced tits army of Spar spartano spartans tans to plunge into the river each morning stone bath tubs were verc use used in boreece several of I 1 hein yere were discovered tit nt the lie site bite or tile the olympic games where they were probably used by the lie nth leta lete s who took part in I 1 alie lie contests tile the modern athlete who takes a shower after a contest Is thus alius adhering to a tradition more than two thou still sand years pars old the toman etonian baths are still synonymous si nuiji loiis with luxury in ili reality these baths were bathing colonies the llie largest covered a square mlle mile and accommodated bathers bat lieis at one time besides lios ldes hot and cold baths these colonies were provided with perspiring rooms dressing rooms swimming pools lecture halls and places for rest in n some borne of these grent great public baths tile plumbing ins of bronze and silver the hath bath in the home of tile the gwenithy hy itoman atoman was tin an elaborate affair it occula occupied led a whole room with a sunken nor floor the water wits mis healed bellied hv by fires under the floor these tires fires warmed witter later which percolated in lend lead or or bronze pipes anime dontely below the bath the natures fixtures were mere of 0 solid silver tin and even of gold the hadlis proper were milde made of and other oilier expensive bull bullying dIng stone there were however lio weser tit in inome many tubs these tubs were ero carved front from solid marble and er decorated by enibel embel on their sides aides some 0 of tile old plumbers were women mats fact was through a study of the plumbing then in use the llie plumbers inn a habit of air their names fannies on oil nil fill lend lead pipe they used some gome of tills idae bears il tonal feml nine little iiii iner the mention ri of lend pipe the derivation of tile lie word plumb pi liar pr it II la Is derived front from the orilin w irad rd whick literally means a worker in lend aven today leod Is hy by in ra inking the early christians d bathing along alin with file lie other luxuries lu tires ol 01 of their predecessors isa bellu bella of nt sprain spain it Is IR reported lisak lull bul laii awn linth in nit dil of tier her life firm and even l 1 lw W 10 years kinra ng age there wits as hm hill one in ili nil all of car lite miles tit nt pal lial me ace which housed lions cd lne the great of Ittis sla alegry IV of england I 1 tin an order 1 chiv airy known its the order of file lc linth for admission to 0 o this order were required to take baths us its part of their investment with knight flood A bath tub occupies a prominent pante in tile history ali story or of the lie french reul lii for it wits as in ane that jenn jean pawl pa 1 mural was slain I 1 in n lune june 1793 17 3 manit brought HIP file downfall if tits to en ewles tile the among tile tho was a young girl ill I 1 named charlotte Clia corday slie site conceived the plan of assassinating marat slie she called twice tit n his fits paris residence but euch each time slie she was refused admission murat was suffering from a skin dis dl ease bease anu anti ex p had find taught him that the pain from his malady would ile be relieved it if he sat in a hot bath one lay day he was sitting to in his bath tub the tub resembled a large shoe the bathers feet went into the toe port while he sat in the 11 heel immediately below the heel was a small ire box willed which was used in healing the bothers water while marat was in tits his tub charlotte corday called site she knocked at ills door and he naked asked tier her what she wished she told him she had news regarding tile the tie he asked her to come 0 tile in she entered and while he was to in the tub c 1 she I he killed him with a knife site she was later inter tried f for or murder and guillotined guillo tined sir robert peel tile the prime minister of En englard Engl glaud nid once had italian craftsmen construct a tub out of a single piece of white marble the of tills this commission was a visit to his mansion by queen Nic victoria rictoria toria the tub which was five feet seven indies inches long wits used only by the queen in september 1020 the lite peel mansion was removed for a new building and the tuh tub wits was sold at auction it was purchased by a 0 chicago plumbing manufacturer the tub till sir illert clobert peel bu built tit for queen victoria ts Is ar far removed from the ones used in japan tile the japanese hatli bath tub Is usually a wooden tank tile water milter Is heated by means meana of n copper tube having a grating for char charcoal roal nl at the bottom of it tills this tube Is SPI set in one coiner coher of the tuti tub enoi in order far to sni ve e both and anda c charcoal th e japanese make their tubs very narrow so that the bathers must either sit or kneel the water in a japanese tub is used ly fly a 0 number of people when the bilth bath Is randy file he father alio mother t the children and the lie servants enter it in the order given ghen A score or two of guests entire str strangers angerst to one may inny he expected to use tile rame lame water liter perhaps the japanese derived their idea of 0 wooden bath tubs from tile practice prevalent in tile united states a generation ogo ago of en casing tubs in wood in those lays plumbing equipment was considered unsightly und it 11 was hidden fie as much us its possible this arrangement had two dis front from a 0 purely sanitary viewpoint in the die first place file wood alth its crevices between hoards boards could ile he kept clean only with difficulty Further tile the space under the wood was it breeding place for vermin till the vii oden linn eling went out of vogue how ever with tie he general use iise of it enamel ware anre tile the ti lul uha or of t lils his cype stood on law claw like feet from which they derive the hie dianie of claw foot PJ pd tubs tuba as they tire known among plumbers while tile itie claw footed fooled tub eliminated the disadvantages als of it tile the encasing casing en era of plumb ing it imd had certain serious the prin billic caplo ot of these was the fad fact mat hint the space under lie tub colle ried dust As tills flits space could he cleansed only with culty housewives hoi isene wished hat flint a full might be designed flint did not have ills flits feature fon ture ilie ifie plumbing industry accommodated them by amod ing lite hie built in tub the sides ol 01 if oils tub full n anre re husli it to the file float flolly 11 ll Is fly ty so flint one side and either one or or lh holl ends end ore are adjacent to in walls lu wever there are that lint can tie be placed it in tile alie center of rooms these e how flow ever tire ased ool tit in vry very large tile the modern tub tins has a lint flat holl bottom so hint flint tho blather will vill not still slip whelp bile tie lie to Is st linding in it II the hot coln Is tilted filled very ery frow rard tio the dinan di iraln sf elmi tile HIP will MH now flow out rapidly as sawn lie ii the waste lq it released aby by ew paper |