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GJUVUW THE PRESS BATHTUBS RARE IN U. S. 100 YEARS AGO History of Bathing from Anciâ€" ent Times Shows Ups and Downs; Details Practically every modern hotel toâ€" day has a bath for every room and cleanliness has become such a fetish in America that many modern homes are built with a bath for each bedâ€" room. Yet it is only 100 years ago that Andrew Jackson lad a crude tin tub removed from the White House «o that the pioneers who had elected him would not be offended by this eviâ€" dence of dandified living and condemn him as undemocratic. This is one of the amusing and sigâ€" nificant incidents of the history of bathing sketched in The Golden Book magazine by Leonard R. Baxter, _ The White House tub, one of the first vessels in America definitely built for bathing, was simply an oversized wash basin to which water had to be carried and was installed by Mrs. Maâ€" dison about 1810. It was not until 1842 that a wealthy resident of Cinâ€" cinnati bowled over his neighbors by installing a stationary bathtub with plumbing, such as we know today. It was the first of its kind in America. The fact is that the practice of bathing has waxed and waned throughout â€" history, â€" Miss â€" Baxter points out. From a simple hygienic measure it has been carried to the point of vice,. And for long periods it has heen discarded entirely. The Great Mogul who founded his empire in India, 1,500, years before Christ considered public baths as imâ€" in hot . water, being rubbed with scented oils and resting on steam tables. When the Huns arrived they found a decadent people, so softened by indulgence and luxury that they were unable to defend their capital. The reaction from the Roman perâ€" iod carried civilization to the other extreme. .Theâ€" early Christians deâ€" nounced bathing along with the other luxuries of their predecessors and the race passed into an age of filth and pestilence which affected all classes. Isabella of Spain, it is reported, took | but two baths in all her life, and even 10 years ago there was but one bathâ€" iruom in all of the miles of palace | which formerly housed Catherine the \ Great of Russia. portant as colleges in developing civâ€" ilization, and he created them on a great â€"scale. _ Egyptians practiced bathing regularly even before that era, and in Greece, Lycurgus made himself famous as the first advocate of the cold bath when he forced his army of Spartans to plunge into the river each morning, the soldiers rubâ€" bing and pounding .each other with wet sand in place of soap. But in Rome bathing was carried to such an extent that it contributed to the downfall of the empire. Imâ€" mense marble bathing palaces were erected, and citizens were known to spend six or eight hours a day lolling The Highland Park Press Nine out of ten people here can do your Wantâ€"ad job alone. read it. The Press Wantâ€"Ads Thursday, October 9, 1930 for results