Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — Bathing in Public. [ARTICLE]

Bathing in Public.

As we were about to leave,says a Japi the Philadelphia Ixmrt, a lady or elegant attire .and attended by a female servant'bearing her toilet apparatus wi tb other luxuries of bath," entered. ..On* new arrival; after giving sonte J (ttre<*tfousi with the assistance of her maidjj*gan' to arrange herself for th# bath. Witli het itly folded and laii| away M a cioni Tn a cl£an place each* of her ’Hftparah as 1C WIM removed. First her silken robe.jji ep, the flowing gown-like robe or purple, then! the nether garments of dntif we j-eached nature&_iOwn. As. gently as a

Zephyr piayfflgkipon the foliage of the trees sne stepped ajong toward*the water. ; Her benutflW-tdtffltted IbiftTand poetry of motion would 1 fear* been vagnslv risible .Bilfeath the laminated folfflr ofli oMßnTnnrts would set, the whole community agog at homwt wfiile a whole form, nude as nature and Jnaore beautiful than an angef, tfonld hot somuch aa attract a passing ginned ia