Baths And Beer In Germany

Batos are au unicnown quaniny in Germany, escept the weekly scrub in the public bath house, as bathrooms in private houses are very seidom seen; and when they do exUt, the primitive, not to say clumsy, arrangements for the water and filliug the tub are astounding to Englisli and Americana. An invariable directiou from a Germán physician when first oalled to a foreign patiënt is: "Don't take a bath again until I see you;" whereas the patiënt Would often like to reply: "1 liope 1 Biian i see you ngaui uuun you've had one." They think the dailv bath a kind of madness, and itis only too evident, even among1 ladies and gentlemen, that they are not guilty of it. If you reeommend a bath to a servant, you will hear in reply; 'Oh, it doesn't agree with me; I took one once and it made me very ilL" And yet, as a rule, Germans are healthy and even tough in their eonstitutions; so it must be beer tb at does ït, lor they begin to inbibe it in infancy. Look at the third-class passeng-ers in a railway station. In a f amily group, the parents will give each child in turn a drink from their beer grlass, which they take to as naturally as one would expect them to drink milk, And yet to see intoxication is rare; men seldom, women never.