continued for a
certain time, removes all obstructions in the vascular system,
and puts all the organs into that state of regular, free, and
full motion which is essential to health, and also to that
delightful repose, accompanied by a consciousness of the power of
exertion, which constitutes the highest animal enjoyment of which
we are capable.'

"N.B.: As the Bath is generally occupied on Saturday evenings and
Sunday mornings, it is recommended to those who would wish to
enjoy the Bath and avoid the crowded moment, to call at other
times. The support of the public will be gratefully received and
every exertion made to deserve it. For the Proprietor, G. Wright.

"Strangers will recognise the Bathing House from the front being
extended over two lots of ground, and the centre basement being
of free-stone."

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The bathtub then was the simple tin sort, on the order of the round
English tub. To-day the variety of bathtubs as to size, shape,
material and appointments is bewildering; tubs there are on feet and
tubs without feet, tubs sunken in the floor so that one goes down
steps into them, tubs of large dimensions and tubs of small, and all
with or without "showers," as the purchaser may prefer. Truly the warm
baths so highly recommended in Count Rumford's rhapsody are to be had
for the turning of one's own faucet at any moment of the day or night!

The Count Rumford in question is that romantic figure, born of simple
English parents, in New England (Woburn, Mass., 1753), who went abroad
when very young and by the great force of his personality and genius,
became the power behind the throne in Bavaria, where he was made
Minister of War and Field Marshal by the Elector, and later knighted
in recognition of his scientific attainments and innumerable civic
reforms. There is a large monument erected to the memory of Count
Rumford in Munich. He died at Auteuil, France, in 1814.

CHAPTER XIII

PERIOD ROOMS

We use the term "period rooms" with full knowledge of the difficulties
involved, in defining Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Directoire,
Jacobean, Empire, Georgian, Victorian and Colonial decorations. Each
period certainly has its distinctive earmarks in line and typical
decoration, but you must realise that a period gradually evolves, at
first exhibiting characteristics of its ancestors, then as it m