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Show ITHE AMERICAN HABIT OF BATHING H. H Fife, a writer from the London Lon-don Daily Mail, is traveling in the United States and one of the straugo ' things he has met with l the American Ameri-can bath He says tho Americans are bath mad. "To get a room with a bath in an Knglish hotel," says Mr. Fife. 'Is still a luxury, to be enjoyed by few. Only the recently built hotels have them; thev charge for them as luxuries Hare, and in all big American cities, they rank as necessaries.' A traveler travel-er thinks himself hard used f be has to paddle out of his room to take his bath, even If it be onl across the corridor. Even small houses and flats have two or three bath6. Country Coun-try clubs are full of them All the latest hotels (not merely tho expensive expen-sive ones) announce that they contain con-tain almost as many bathrooms aa bedrooms. " There are some parts of Europe In which a bath even at Christmas is not thought to he essential to cleanliness, but England i not one of those peculiar pe-culiar dlvletona of the obi world, yet, tho impression that Mr. Fife conveys is that batbinc is n longer viewed in England aa a necessity. Perhaps tho American docs indulge too frequently in the hath, but at that he 1h an unclean fellow compared with the Japanese |