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Show Saturday Night in Japan t v zj rT "v ill" .?'Viij j " A JLSM I.Til'i.S "OME on in, the water's fine." v- Bathing in Japan is on a different plane from ours as these two American Ameri-can gentlemen can tell you Tubs are perpendicular there, instead of horizontal, hori-zontal, and you stand in the water up to your neck. But we shouldn't laugh at this somewhat primitive scene, according ac-cording to Consumers Information, which points out that only a hundred years ago, there were only 1,500 bathtubs bath-tubs in the United States, all of them in Philadelphia, where they had a city water system and taxed each tub $3.00. President Fillmore installed the first tub in the White House ir 1850. Advertising of the advantages of convenient and sanitary bathinf started 31 years later, has continued increasingly ever since, and ha; made the United States the cleanest nation on earth. Even the most advanced ad-vanced European nations are far behind be-hind us in this respect, and the possession pos-session of a bathtub in most countries is a sign not only of opulence but ostentation. os-tentation. The United States is among the few countries generally educated to the knowledge that health and cleanliness go together. |