. Town and city. Ocean Bathing at Wood Island Park Beach ago. To-day the North End bathing beach is so abso-lutely free to everybody that during the season the bath-ing suit itself is lent free of charge. At Bostons othercity beaches, however, five cents are charged for the useof the suit. The same facts are true all over the country to-day;that is, in certain places the baths are absolutely free, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, AND PUBLIC BATHS 63 while elsewhere three or five cents are charged for theuse of towel and soap. Going west, we find that Chicago has the honor of beingthe first city in America
. Town and city. Ocean Bathing at Wood Island Park Beach ago. To-day the North End bathing beach is so abso-lutely free to everybody that during the season the bath-ing suit itself is lent free of charge. At Bostons othercity beaches, however, five cents are charged for the useof the suit. The same facts are true all over the country to-day;that is, in certain places the baths are absolutely free, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, AND PUBLIC BATHS 63 while elsewhere three or five cents are charged for theuse of towel and soap. Going west, we find that Chicago has the honor of beingthe first city in America to give her people free publicbaths all the year round. Other places are, however,. Saturday Morning at Dover Street Bath HouseBoys waiting their turn following in her footsteps; and to-day the United Statesis the only country in the world where there are citiesthat give baths to their citizens as free as the air theybreathe. In Europe and in England a fee is alwayscharged for the public bath. This is also generally truein the United States, although here the number of free 64 TOWN AND CITY baths increases every year; and they help to raise thestandard of cleanHness. Clearly enough the need is very great in New YorkCity, for although the streets are cleaner than they were,although the tenements are in better condition, and theparks increasing in number, still in 1901 some one dis-covered that a particular district in the city had justthree bath tubs for the use of 1321 families. Thisdid not prove that those people did not want to bathe;it simply showed they had very little chance in thatdirection. With thousands of people going without any real bathfor months togethe
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