BATHING IN A DINNER-TABLE.
' •'The German Emperor is, as'is .well'known; a great admirer of English domestic institutions. When over here, say's a London, journal, lie 'was charmed 'with the.'practical in which. the'-Britisli'workman living in 'modern tenement houses has the .use of ,a bathroom. He: ordered, therefore, to have, plans submitted to him'which took particular hoto of baths in.workmen's dwellings, with' a view to fit into small flats - for' small' families. .': The bath .which- wasultimately adopted is . meant to serve a threefold-purpose. This bath'is'actually already in use on' the Emperor's different estates,-nnd can; with a clever contrivance of
soine ivqodeh' parts, be changed into a .wasbinj: tuli, . and this again. can be changed into a dinner-table. Thus workmen are .relieved from finding houseroom for a big : bath:in their dwellings, and when not in: use for a bath or the \vashing it is one of the most indispensablo pieces of furniture as the dinner-table of the family. ..' : ■ , | - : ,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 610, 13 September 1909, Page 3
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