Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — cheap Baths. [ARTICLE]

cheap Baths.

The ideal public bath-houses are in Birmingham, and are from eighty to one hundred feet loDg and from three to five feet deep. The poor bathe for a penny, or two of our cents, while the well-to do get towels and a dressingroom for twelve cents. These bathhouses develop swimming classes, and from these expert swimmers are made. Even tiny children are to be seen suspended in slings and supported, while they learn to strike out for themselves, by men who hold the slings at the end of long poles and walk around the sides of the tanks with them. Men who take a whole lifetime to choose an occupation end by deciding to do nothing.