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Show BATHTUBS AT FIRST THOUGHT DANGEROUS Ptsid Kelly. In The Nation's Business, says that whenever a man starts to launch a new enterprise or sell B useful btat hitherto unheard-of article, let him stop und recall vvhut happened win . batti tubs wore first Introduced. Within the in, ii.., ry of many pSOple still living. lh bath tub was lambaste, I .. .-. ihSns I 10 democratic simplicity and u danger lo health An ordinance was Introduced m Philadelphia Phila-delphia -and almost passed to prohibit bull, Ing between NOTSmbSI an. I Murcli. Boston made bathing unluuful except "ii medical advice Virginia Imposed a tax on bathtub owners of $:l'i u year. Yet everybody knows now that having a bath lub In the house Is a first rate Idea, liuthlng was probably even more needed then. But people resented bathtubs L. -. auae they were new. Man new Ideas are made commercially successful. But usually there are difficulties. The public resentB u novelty. o |