A SCHEME FOR STEAM

Medical authorities assert that to a fatigued, nervous, jumpy system a warm shower before retiring has a relaxing, beneficial effect. More particularly, Dr. Means, medical adviser to the University, has observed many such jumpy personalities about Harvard. Moreover, a warm shower at night is a harmless and often welcome form of relaxation even to the not-so-jumpy members of society.

Throughout the year hot water has been provided in yard dormitories in very conservative doses so conservative that many shower enthusiasts have been lead to believe that the hot water tap has utterly no significance other than has an interior decorating device achieving that balanced effect so necessary to the correct bathroom.

Hot water, after ten in the evening appears and disappears apparently at will. Anyone inclined to shower as late as ten-thirty does so at his own risk. A turn of the hot water tap, even when accompanied with prayers, is fully as likely to bring on acute pneumonia as steam. It is this uncertainly lurking in the plumbing which is the prime cause for discontent so manifest among even the most select of shower-room circles.

Since hot-water has not as yet been mentioned in connection with the Vaulted act, there appears to be no very good reason for its sparing, almost furtive distribution, especially since the whole difficulty can be so easily remedied by running it with faithful constituency to a reasonably late and unvarying hour of the night.