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When Mark Twain toured Europe in 1891, he discovered that France had just the treatment for his rheumatic right arm: a soothing bath of spring water at Aix-les-Bains. "I began to take the baths and found them most enjoyable," he wrote, "so enjoyable that if I hadn't had a disease I would have borrowed one just to have a pretext for going...
...swig, the patient sits in a tub of water for 25 minutes while compressed air is forced up, gets a massage, wades into a thick fog of water particles, finally inhales some vapors to complete the morning treatment. The afternoon brings more of the same. Specialties elsewhere: bath and poultice, shower in a hammock, intestinal irrigation "drop by drop...
...uphill one mile to church, William throwing sticks for the dog, Catherine reading the morning mail and dropping most of it on the road. William was exact and businesslike. Catherine was inexact and totally haphazard. Visitors were often startled to find her wandering about on the way to her bath draped in nothing but a large towel. She conducted her charitable works with disarming inefficiency and brilliant success. One convalescent home received from her the gifts of a packet of seeds, a canary, a piano; another, a cow ("animals are first-rate to interest people...
...countries-and here I am thinking of Indonesia-have fallen after achieving independence." The Colonial Office, in its anxiety to see that the transfer of power is peaceful, has an even more unhappy comparison in mind: that of India and Pakistan, whose baptism of freedom took place in a bath of blood. By summoning the proud chieftains of Nigeria to neutral London, Britain hoped to help them find a peaceful path to independence...
Back to the Bath. As a youngster, Murray learned from his father to hate Frank Hague, who slapped down Murray Sr. every time he reached for office. When Kenny toppled Hague in 1949, Murray Sr. finally won with him and became Parks Commissioner. But his alliance with Kenny was short-lived. In 1950 the elder Murray defied the boss, backed son Jim for Congress. For this insubordination Kenny stripped Murray of power, put him in charge of Jersey City's one public bath and its nine employees. Then Kenny canceled out the younger Murray with an obscure candidate also...