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Show HEADQUARTERS IN THE BATHROOM Whenever a bored modem feels like pitying hinjself, there should be consolation in singing the song of the bathroom. bath-room. It is the most distinctive, the most luxurious and, the most utilized institution of the modem American home. We are the most bathed nation in the world, with 95 per cent of the world's tubs, according to Nation's Business, in its "Case for Construction". Even very plebian taxpayers without a lorgnette or an evening dress or a Tuxedo in the family now boast two bathrooms in the home. How did they ever get along in those primitive old homes without a 1athroom? Where else but in the bathtub or under the shower would one burst into song in the early morning? Without all the brilliant matutinal ideas that have been generated standing in front of a shaving mirror, the nation would surely have sunk into intellectual bankruptcy. bank-ruptcy. Many a man who uses his bathroom as a casual reading room can remember the chill wintry blasts that punished him when he visited the quaint old shanties of his boyhood, decorated with wasp's nests and mail order catalogs. In James Whitcomb Riley's words, "The torture of that icy seat had made a Spartan sob". |