Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1891 — Slept All Night in a Cold Bath. [ARTICLE]

Slept All Night in a Cold Bath.

Chicago Tribune. Nine hours of sleep in a bath tub fitled with cold water is the novel escapade of a New York traveling man at the Plankinton House, Milwaukee. The gentlemen is tho representative of a champagne house, and a tour among his own customers Sunday night resulted in his getting an oversupply of his own ware. Returning to the hotel about 11 o’clock, he concluded to take a cold bath io hopes 6f refreshing himself, Filling the bath tub adjoining his room with cold water, he was soon in it. immersed up to the neck, and with his head lying upon the sloping end of the tub he fell asleep. In that position ho remained until 7:30 next morning, when a bell boy aroused him. Nino hours in the cold water had shriveled up his hands and feet and stiffened his joints; until ho could hardly move, but a few hot drinks soon revived him. While he admits that it is a most'effectual wav of sobering up, he thinks it altogether too dangerous. “If I had got my head under the water,” he said to tho clerk, “you would have had a sensational suicide on your hands and nothing could have proved that I di 1 not intenjl to tako my own life.” He Baid that during tho night hejjad dreamed that ho was shipwrecked in the Arctic ocean anjl he was swimming around among the ice bergs.