Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — Armour’s First Baths. [ARTICLE]

Armour’s First Baths.

When Phil Armour was a boy living on a farm in Madison, N. Y., he did not take his weekly bath in a marble tub, nor was he rubbed with perfumed soap. Saturday nightSf his mother used to take him and the other boys down to the creek for their weekly scouring. Home made soft soap would be poured

upon their heads and then rubbed In. Long after Philip said: "Often when the soapsuds were running into my eyes, making them smart like fire, I felt as though I would like to bite my mother’s hand, and I knew better than to do it I felt that her power was supreme, and that I must submit to It, as it was for the best”