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Pall Mall clubrooms buzzed last week with the story that a woman, with the full consent of the Labor Government, had taken a bath in the House of Commons. Buzzing was louder when it was learned that a prominent Cabinet Minister had practically demanded that the bath be taken. The facts...
...this juncture up rose Miss Edith Picton-Turbervill, Labor M. P., accomplished swimmer, author of Christ and Woman's Power. She not only approved heartily of white-haired Mr. Lansbury's ladies' bath, said she, but she would take a bath there and then and report on it to the House of Commons. While Tories and Laborites cheered gallantly she left the Chamber, delivered herself to the bath-mistress. Half an hour later, rosy and refreshed, she returned, announced that the ladies' bath was a credit to the House of Commons...
...Harry Lauder, Scottish clownster, stepped out of a bath tub in a Chicago hotel, slid, flip-flopped, broke his right ninth rib. Continuing to fulfill remunerative engagements, he said: "Bathrooms be a wee bit dangerous at times...
Since a hospital includes many of the functions of a hotel, the Doctors Hospital proposes to emulate the best hotels in its provision for the comforts of the rich, with charges to match their purses. Thus, each of its rooms (it has no wards) has its private bath, its individual refrigerator. Rugs, chintz curtains and pastel-tinted walls give a cozy atmosphere. All beds are of wood. All medical and surgical equipment are of course the most modern and efficient. Patient-guests have at their convenience a barber shop, tailor, florist, public stenographer, telegraph office, newspaper & magazine stand, drugstore, gymnasium...
Prof. Colin Garfield Fink (Columbia University, Electrochemistry) announced last week that he would treat the declining stones?cleansing them to remove bacteria, giving an alkaline bath to immunize them from free salts and acids in the air, filling pores and chinks with melted paraffin and beeswax. This operation will hereafter be needed every few years...