Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1910 — A LITTLE TOO PRIMITIVE [ARTICLE]

A LITTLE TOO PRIMITIVE

Bhower Bath Arrangement Something of a Shock to the Participant. August Belmont, at a dinner in Saratoga, praised the seaside towns of New England. "But some of them,” he added, “are a little too primitive. "I remember • story about the primitive iown of Rockford. Rockford had a rough batheßtablishment, with a shower bath. You stood in your bathhouse and pulled a rope and a deluge of cool water descended from the ceiling. "Well, a lady visitor stood one day in her bathhouse, ready for the shower. she pulled the rope and'braced herself, but no shower followed. She Rave the rope another tug, when the Rruft voice of the sailor proprietor, of establishment sounded from aloft. “ ‘Stand a p’int more to the nor-east, it said, ‘if ye want to get the full force.’ “And the horrified lady, looking up, saw the old sailor frowning impatiently through a hole in the celling a ° d tilting a barrel of sea water for the shower.