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...Sunk in Bath Salts. The biggest part of the debt ($32 billion) is in home mortgages. The rest has been run up by U.S. citizens in acquiring the goods and services which they consider essential to their health and happiness-automobiles, clothes, refrigerators, washing machines, television sets. The trend which the FRB Bulletin noted most anxiously was the increase in installment buying, which is up some $2.3 billion over last year, to a total...
...number of attachments and garnishments. A typical example was a Kansas City housewife who was sued by a downtown department store after she had bought three dozen pairs of stockings, five pairs of expensive shoes, several pieces of fancy lingerie, several pints of perfume and a quantity of bath salts-all on installment. When her husband, a railroad man, began to lose his overtime pay, she had to default and the law moved...
...Jones, it seemed, had a decided personal desire, all right. By last week, 71 patients had received treatment in Bath. From now on, free of charge, more & more of Britain's arthritic and rheumatic poor would share the tile-lined baths and rubbing rooms with the hypochondriacal and over-indulged rich...
Said one elegant oldtime spatient last week: "There used to be a time when one was sure to meet one's friends in Bath. But now one hardly knows anyone." Echoed a Bath specialist: "In a few years Bath will become so crowded and impossible that any person of quality will naturally go abroad for treatment." Was Beau Nash turning in his grave? Probably not; he used to pass his six-quart beaver among the swells to collect money for a mineral-water hospital available to all comers...
...daughters of low tradesmen," said one Smollett character, "who, like shovel-nosed sharks, prey upon the blubber of those uncouth whales of fortune, are infected -with the same rage of displaying their importance; and the slightest indisposition serves them for a pretext to insist upon being conveyed to Bath, where they may hobble country-dances and cotillons among lordlings, squires, counselors, and clergy...