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Cheap Shower Bath

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
July
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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Among the various improvements of ilie age, wc notice one in the shape of a bath, inventod by a stilden t of Yale College, whicli surpasses all othcrs boih in eheapness and efficiency. lt is very simple and very easily made by any o:ic of corrwnon tact at linkorii.g. It consists in a èominon wooden pail, vviih its botlom thoroughly perforated. fhen n liew second botlom ;s put in about 1-2 or 3-4 of an incli above the porforaied one, wliich bas n it a lióle as lorge as a dolían to be covereJ with a comnion bellowsvalve, i. e. önc m:ide of a picce of ihin uoard alout 1 l-'.2 or2 inclics square, with theunder side ootersd wiih sbeep skin. - A string from ihis valve to a lever fa.4ened on Ilic brim of the pail raises the valve when pulled. The whole U Uien suspended by cords and pullcys. A curtain made of common cotton cloth is then faslened up to the wall in such a way as to allow the apparatus to raise aml fall freely. The cloth may be se wed to a common tarrel hoop, ingress and egress being wlieie the cdges meet. Tliis last 3 necessai-y both for concealrnent and to keep the water from spattering off on olher articles. The other and only othor ihing is a tub, fone hall of a barrel it you Üke,) in which the operator stands, and thelowerend of the curtain is carried dire.ctly into the tub. The expense tvill of course vary with the taste and fancy of individuáis, but I have leaincd from some of my acquaintnnces in college who have them, that it is only 1,50 for the whole. They declare it superior in some respecta lo the patent ones. It requires no more room than for the tub to stand on, and il put up snug in your sleeping apartment, so far from being a troub!esom3 appendage, it is very convenient and salutarj in its effecls. I runde one for myself in a few hours, and would nnt part willi it tor nny money. Before retiring to bed l lower the pnil, fill t wilh waler, and raise 1 to ts place, whe-o it remains till I pull tlie string. 1 need not teil you of tl, e exliilrating eflocts of this prnctice, for that has Deen told you before. Every farmer, mehanic, or man of whatever calüng, ought o have and uscone of thse sime llnngs, so cheap nnd conveniont for al!. I take a bath uniformly every morning ihroughout the year, and fwhat was not Irue before) I nm neitber iroubled vvith colds or colii feet since I began the practiee. - Such is my experience, and jours wil] be the same if you wiü try it. Numbness, paralysis, rheumatic pains and colds, nll

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