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Show WONDERS OF NEXT CENTUft Xmr-icvcuiiftii Which Will Do Awn with Much Trouble of the lnt.ev.1 Qtneratlcn. "Tho bath of the next century," says T. Darou Kup.iell In his book "A Hundred Years Hence," "will lave the bod speedily with oxygenated water delivered with a forco that will render rubbing unnecessary, and beside It will stand the drying cupboard, lined with some quickly moving arrange-mnt arrange-mnt of soft brushes, and fed with a nlghly desiccated air, from which almost al-most In n moment, the bather will emerge, dried, and with a skin gently Stimulated, uud perhaps clcctrlfled, to clcUhe himself quickly and pass down the lift to his breakfast, which he will cat to the accompaniment of a summary sum-mary of tho morning's, news read out for tho benefit of the family, or whls-Jored whls-Jored Into his ear by a talking machine ma-chine " Dishwashing will bo easy In that day. Dirty plates and (V'hos, for example, ex-ample, "will he simply dropped one by ono Into an automatic receptacle; swilled clean by water delivered with forco and charged with nascent oxygen; oxy-gen; dried by electric heat, ond polished pol-ished by electric force, being finally oxygen-bathed as a superfluous act of sanitary cleanliness before being sent to table again. And all that has come off tho plates will drop through the scullery floor Into the destructor beneath be-neath to he oxygenated ond made away with." There will be many other Improvements. Improve-ments. Trains will goth"- speed more rapidly; moving platforms will do away with the need of ipplng trains at every station. People will have more accidents t.i avoid, an they will be cleverer In avoiding them. On Small flyln machines they will el mountain top3 on Saturday afternoons "for (nonalcoholic) picnics." Actors will only play onco In ono part; foi their performances will bo reproduced by a perfected klnetoscopa ond phonograph. |