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178 SPORTING NOTIONS
has been etiquette, too, to make buttered slides
in the shampooing rooms, instead of putting down
a bit of cocoanut matting or something of that
sort to walk on, and to leave the lavatory at
the outside temperature. Again—but hang it!
Here am I off on Turkish baths when I meant
to be discoursing about the swimming variety.
I was going to say that, as a rule, if these affairs
have a fault, it is that they are beastly dirty.
Dear! dear! If you find one into which the
light of day is let, maybe by accident, don't
you venture to look at the water when the sun
is on it. No, my brother, don't you do that,
unless you are fully prepared to give up using
that bath. Rather deal with it as one used
with the a la mode beef of commerce and the cheap
eating-houses. Take it, so to speak, up into
the darkest corner, and make your meal or do
your bathing there.
Knowing what I do of certain baths, and
seeing what I do see, I am no longer of opinion
that bacilli, bacteria, germs, or any of those
things are unhealthy, but hold views on the
other line. If they were unhealthy, why are
not all of us who used the old, and some
new, baths—why are we not all dead and done
for? What do I think of many of our baths ?
Filthy is the word; degradingly dirty. Smell
'em, my friends. Inspect their sanitary, or,
rather, insanitary, arrangements. Give your
mind to following up their system of ventilation.
Look at the poor fellows who come in grimy
and go out lighter. What ought to make for
cleanliness is more by way of pollution. In
how many baths is the water changed with
reasonable frequency ?
Would
the cost of