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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 18, 1896

Famous Beauties and their Favorite Baths.

Mme. Recamier bathes in milk.
Mrs. Langtry’s bath is a mystery.
Miss Ada Rehan bathes in plain, healthy Croton, perfumed.
Miss Lillian Russell bathes in secretly perfumed water.
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt bathes in tea water.
Mlle. Liane de Pougy bathes in cold salt water.

The Waterford Mirror, Ireland, December 29, 1824

He occupies two large houses, a street, however, separating the two houses; but to establish a communication between the two residences, without going into the street, Mr. Beckford has had a bridge, or gallery, built across the street, its basement being level with the first floor windows. By such means, the carriage way is not interrupted. This communication between the two houses is entirely enclosed; even the sun blinds to the windows appear to be always down.

The joined houses are at No. 20 Lansdown Crescent and No. 1 Lansdown Place West, Bath.

The Wheelwoman, London, December 24, 1898

And yet we are driven to the appalling conclusion that for every 100 people who are to be seen hurrying along the street to business in the morning, probably only one, or at the most two, have upon rising washed any other part of their bodies than their faces.