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Show CUSTOM OF TUBLESS TIMEb Minute Milky Bath of Other Says Was Quite a Modest So- clal Affair. Tubbinc Is almost ns recent a custom cus-tom ns telegraphing. At least It Is fo in.France, where, even nt'thls time, bathrooms are objects of nwe and won-pci won-pci to tho populace In general. t'omcthlng more than a century 'ago tllnga wcro even wor&o, If ono may depend on the veracity of a writer lu tho Cornhlll .Mngazlne. According to bis unvarnished tale of a fushlobablo woman's habits, her maid with her clneolato roused her about 11, nnd she f filth with took a plunge into that EOtitty In which she worked, thought, plajed, ntc, drank and died nt last. It Is painful to ndd that sho very ecldom took a plunge into nuythlrg but society. Tho king's nolutlons con-rlsied con-rlsied of dipping the royal fingers Into rr.so water nnd drying them daluttly on n napkin, nnd to go beyond onus monarch In a desire for clcanlino.s would hnvo been a lapse of taste indeed. in-deed. Hatha were lortalnly not unknown milky baths, bo that inadamu need not purler tho gloom and depression of latitude oven then but the Idea of boap In connection with them Is ono which tho closest student of eighteenth century memoirs and manners will rarely If over come across. He will be fnmillnr, on the other hand, by description nnd In old curiosity simps with tho painfully minute ewer' and bas-ln in which fashion did homage to chnnllnesB. There was no particular reason, then, why madame should not make hei toilet In public, nnd she did. |
