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HELEN GOULD’S
160,000
BATH TUB
LAST WORD
m LUXURY
EW YORK.—Did you
plunge into the foot
and a half of Croton’
that all but over
flowed from your
four-foot bathtub this
morning?
Did you float on
your back, gazing up
at the rays of the
sun, which didn’t fll
' ter through the
- stained glass win-
'dow of your cupboardlike bathroom,
and imagine you were battling off
ipalm Beach?
Did you happen to bump your head
on the medicine closet which projects
over the end of the tub as you scram
ibled out to the floor, which felt for all
the world like a cake of ice?
If you did, how would you like, just
Ifor a change, to take a bath in a $60,-
! 000 tub?
i Perhaps you may have that privilege
(some day if you should be fortunate
.enough to receive an invitation from
(Miss Helen Miller Gould, for Miss
<Gould is having erected on her beauti
ful summer estate, Lyndhurst, at Irv-
Jngton-on-the-Hudson, a bathtub that
•will cost that amount of money.
■ Just think of the plumber’s bill if
(anything should happen to go wrong!
(What the plumber might do, however,
‘evidently has no terrors for Miss
(Gould, who planned for a private bath
(that would excel any other of its kind
(in the country.
New Society Amusement.
Society, surfeited with every pleas
ure that money could buy, has at last
i found a new way to amuse itself. Jt
'has taken to swimming, and, like the
small boy who has a secluded little
ipool back of the old mill to which he
steals whenever he can escape from
school, so do rich people build their
own little pools to which they can re
tire when the routine of dances and
dinners becomes irksome.
During the last year many of the
wealthy have built out-of door pools on
their summer estates, pools that are
surrounded by pergolas, loggias and
tropical gardens.
But Miss Gould is going to have the
finest of them all. Directly opposite
her handsome home at Irvington she
is having erected a magnificent bath
house which is to contain not only a
huge swimming pool, but small baths
and showers. The luxury planned for
this bathhouse reminds one of the
baths of imperial Rome.
Building Beautifully Designed.
Constructed of red brick, with gran
ite trimmings, the building will be 138
feet long and 68 feet wide. The front,
which will be of Doric design, will be
two stories in height. A beautiful
shaded walk connecting Miss Gould’s
mansion with the bath will lead to a
flight of marble steps. Back of the
granite pillars at the top of the steps
will be three massive doors of oak and
plate glass. As the doors swing out
ward, the guests yill find themselves
in a spacious lounging room where
they may rest in ease and. comfort be
fore and after the bath. The floor of
cork will be covered with oriental
rugs and divans, and lounging chairs
will be scattered among the palms,
which will convert the room into a
tropical grove.
At either end of the lounging room
doors lead to dressing rooms, each of
which might well belong to the boudoir
of a princess.
When Miss Gould’s guests in their
bathing suits step through the wide
doors at the rear of the lounging room
to the walk surrounding the pool itself
they will be face to face with the glory
of the |60,000 bathtub.
Gently lapping the marble sides of
the pool will stretch the huge basin of
water. At the end nearest the loung
ing room the pool will be four feet
deep, sloping gradually away to a
depth of eight feet at the farther end.
Pool Fed by Spring.
The water will flow through the pool
in a steady stream fed by a spring far
back on the spacious grounds of Lynd-
hurst, and at the opposite end an out
let 'will keep the depth constant at all
times.
Surrounding the pool will be 16 mar
ble columns, supporting the roof of
glass and standing upon a walk of
ceramic tiles, bordered with white
marble benches. Scattered about this
walk will be marble benches, covered
with rugs and pillows, on which the
bathers may rest as they become fa
tigued from swimming or from which
their friends may watch them while at
play in the water.
White and green will be the prevail
ing colors. The pool itself will be
lined with green tiles. At the base and
along the upper edge will be white
marble. The interior walls are to be
white, and the rays of sunlight will be
filtered through the delicately tinted
glass ceiling.
Water Supply Provided For.
In order that the water in the pool
may be ever fresh pipes through the
basement of the building will carry wa
ter not only from the spring on the
grounds but also from the mains of
the city water system. Should an ex
ceptionally dry season cause the spring
to run dry it will be possible to make
use of the other means of filling, the
pool.
The pipes will carry the water first
through a system of filters that will
remove every foreign, particle, then
through boilers which will heat it to
the required temperature.
It will take two and a half tons of
coal and sixteen and a half hours of
time to fill the pool for the first time.
Once it is filled and heated, however,
it will constantly remain at an even
temperature.
It is the expectation of the builders
of this modern bathtub that the glass
roof, which will be of w’hat is known
as puttyless glass—the joining of one
pane to another being invisible to the
eye—will not only serve to light up
the pool during the day, but that the
rays from the sun will also aid in re
taining the heat in the water.
Extreme Luxury.
At night clusters of electric lights
will be suspended from the roof and
from the ceiling over the walk sur
rounding the pool, while single lights
will shine in every corner of the build
ing.
Not a detail that will add to the lux
uriousness of the bath has been omit
ted. Under the front of the building a
complete system of heating will be in
stalled. From it beat will be carried
to each dressing room and drying
room. Women bathers will even find
on their dressing tables the means to
dry their hair by artificial heat.
The work of erecting this palatial
bath is already well under way. The
actual construction is being carried on
by A. M. Hunter & Son of Irvington.
A large force of men has been at work
for several weks and the builders ex
pect that the bath will be completed
by Easter.
There are other luxurious baths in
many private houses —notably that in
the basement of Senator W. A. Clark’s
mansion on Fifth avenue, New York,
and there are a few magnificent public
baths, of which the Broadwater bath,
just outside Helena, Mont., is the
finest, but Miss Gould’s is the last
word in private bathhouse luxury.
CROW AN AWKWARD LOVER
His Futile Efforts to Soften His
Raucous Voice Furnish Amuse
men for Bystander.
For a few years I had crows, but
their nests are an irresistible bait
for boys and their settlement was
broken up. They grew so wonted as
to throw off a great part of their shy
ness, and to tolerate my near ap
proach. One very hot day I stood for
some time within twenty feet of a
mother and three children, who sat on
an elm bough over my head, gasping
in the sultry air, and holding their
wings half spread for coolness. All
birds during the mating season be
come more or less sentimental, and
murmur soft nothings in a tone very
unlike the grind-organ repetition and
loudness of their habitual song. The
crow is very comical as a lover, and
to hear him trying to soften his croak
to the proper Saint Preux standard
has something of the effect of a Mis
sissippi boatman quoting Tennyson.
Y^t there are few things to, my ear
more melodious than his caw of a
clear winter morning as it drops to
you filtered through five hundred
fathoms of crisp blue air.
The hostility of all smaller birds
makes the moral character of the
crow, for all his deaconlike demeanor
and garb, somewhat questionable. He.
could never sally forth without in
sult. The golden robins, especially,;
would chase him as far as I could
follow with my eye, making him duck,
clumsily to dodge their importunate
bills. I do not.believe, however, that
he robbed any nests hereabouts, for'
the refuse of the gasworks, which, in
cur free and easy community, is al
lowed to poison the river, supplied
him with dead alewives in abundance.
—From Lowell's My Garden Ac
quaintance.
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Parnell.
I never saw a braver man than Par
nell. The story of his downfall is
.one of the most pathetic in history.
There is a rumor that Capt. O’Shea
said to Gambetta: “What are we go
ing to do with Parnell? He is get
ting to be a great danager to the
country.” And Gambetta replied:
“Set a woman on his track.” And the
woman, instead of betraying him, fell
in love with the patriot, and that
was his undoing.—Recollections of
Mrs. T. P. O Couaw.
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At Christmas time we celebrate the
birthday of our King. The wise men
camo from the far east, attracted by
the light of the star, to find and wor
ship the King. This blessed day is
lighted by a star that ought to at
tract our attention and lead us in the
same direction and to the same end.
This time of music and glad festivities
should lay especial emphasis on the
kinship of Jesus of Nazareth. It is
our privilege to see, in the Babe of
Bethlehem, the King of kings and
Lord of lords. That vision should be
more clear to us than to the wise
men of old. They had none of the
helps that quicken our eyesight. We
may remember the life he lived, the
work he did, the sacrifice he made,
and the Influence he has exerted and
is exerting to this very hour.
“Never man spake like this man,”
concernihg God, man, sin, life, death,
truth, immortality, and “the vast for
ever.” He has drawn the intellect of
the world to himself.
His ideals have inspired civilizations
and turned the currents of history into
hew channels. He has compelled the
world to accept his ideas of greatness
and the value of human life. He has
drawn the art of the world to him
self, for the greatest paintings of the
nges reflect his glory. He has drawn
it^e music of the world to himself, for
.the mighty masterpieces of this realm
■tell the story of his work and in
fluence. He has drawn the thought
of the world to himself, for there
never was one about whom so many
books have been written. His life
and words have been the inspiration of
the modern altruism that is doing so
much to lift humanity to higher and
better levels. He is rapidly draw
ing the heart of the world to himself
—is drawing the lives of men to
himself.
He shall reign, “King of kings and
Lord of lords.” Because he humbled
jhimself and made himself of no repu
jtation, and took on him the form of a
servant, and became obedient unto
.death, even the death of the cross,
[therefore God hath highly exalted him
land given him a name that is above
every name. If we will not crown him
|Lord of all in our hearts here, we
shall yet be called upon to crown hhn
King of eternity. Let us crown the
Christ Child our King in the here and
now.
Keeping Christmas 3°U
Christmas is a day of joy, but joy
should not be allowed to die out of our
Jives next morning. It should stay
(with us ever after. We should sing
khe Christmas songs all the new year.
We should carry the peace of God in
(our hearts continually hereafter. We
bhould learn from this time to find the
^eauty and the good will in all things,
pnd to show the world that we believe
(what we say we believe —that since
God loves us, and Jesus Christ is our
friend, “all’s well with the world.”
They who receive and tell of God’s
unspeakable gift of Christ as a Re
deemer may carry the gladdest sort of
Uhristmas around with them all the
year in their hearts.
Our early days will not, indeed, come
back; yet is Christmas an Indian sum
mer evening to the venerable —a re
viving reminiscence of ycuth.
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“When they saw the star they re
joiced with exceeding great joy.”
For men in banked cabins in the arc
tic snows and men in the wind beaten
ships on remote seas, for men in tropic
jungles and men in forgotten w’astes,
this day is Christmas. We who spend
the day in the friendly security of cit
ies and draw about us the familiar in
timacies of home and daily friendships
are apt to forget the wonder of this,
and the significance. But whether they;
realize it or not, men draw together
during these hours. And this is to|
follow the star the wise men saw overl
Bethlehem.
Christmas for most of us Is. given to’
the closest of ties and the spirit of it
is only a warmer glow of well used as-i
sections. But the deepest and mighti-j
est things are the nearest, and in the*
heart of this day is the hope of the*
race. Two thousand years ago there;
was one who spoke from a mountain;
His message was the brotherhood of[
all men. Another time he said: “I am;
the way, the truth, and the life.” ToJ
day men follow the way though they!
do not know, and obey the truth[
though they do not see, and live the;
life though they are unconscious of its;
pulse beat through the world. For the|
way is the way of the race marching
painfully to its far goal.
The life of the individual and the (
lives of nations are borne upon thej
bosom of a great tide. Wise men call;
it by different names, but no man 1
lives effectually save in its full cur-!
rent Whether we state It in terms'
of religion, or of philosophy, or pol
icy, Its law is but the divine platitude
of the brotherhood of man.
The wise man begs to express much!
more than proverbial wishes that hisj
entire clientele may enjoy the merriest;
at merry Christmases. /
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^>* , n r or COUGHS and COLDS
TWO OF A KIND.
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Dobbins —Is there a list of million
aires published?
Bronson —Not that I know of, but
you can probably get a list of the fel
lows who dodge their taxes.
Why Do They?
Why women like the baldheadetl
man it is somewhat difficult to define.
It may be because he appears to be:
Thoughtful and kind.
Trustworthy and confiding. Whim
sical. Past the follies and frivolities
of youth.
•Usually successful.
A man of property.
Opinions why women like the bald
headed man obtained by the Dally
Mirror are as follows:
He is not silly like young men.
He accepts refusals of marriage so
nicely that one is sorry one did not
accept him.
The bald patch looks so clean and
nice. One would like to kiss IL
A doctor welcomes baldness when it
comes to him, as it is a sign of se
dateness and dignified learning, which
invariably increases his practise.
Experience is a safer and more use
ful guide than any principle, however
accurate and scientific it may be.—-
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