Note 66 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
The trough full of hot water called a bath, used to cost in London at least one shilling and sixpence, so that persons with less than 200l. a year could not afford to use them. In Paris, with fuel and water so much dearer, baths can be had as low as one-third. The recent washing-houses are something, but only as a commencement, and an earnest. Such contrivances will not change a people’s taste.