Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1926, Page 10

OLD ROYAL BATHS OPENTO PARISIANS Public Now May Splash in “Bains Deligny,” Once Used by Napoleon Il i By the Ascociated Prese PARIS, October 6.—Parisians. when they take a notion to bathe. eplash around in the same H Jatrontaed by the courtiers of Charles | he Tenth, and later by the Emperor | Napo'eon 11T himself. | These baths. known as the “Bains | ligny,"” are towed up the Seine each | pring and anchored in front of the | €hamber of Deputies. In Winter they re taken down the river and out of ris, in order to avoid the heavy | stationing tax. ! Built in 1801. The Deligny Baths, Turkish in de- | #ign, were built between 1801 and 1803, and are among the few open-air baths that have remained in Paris since the coming of modern plumbing. At one time it was the great fashion to bathe in the Setne, there being no fower than 30 baths anchored in river. The popularity of the b ended the fashion. The Parisians, finding insufficient time for both &ports, gave up the bathing. The reign of Charles the Tenth was the most flourishing time for the “Bains Deligny.” Only the aris. tocracy used them in those da There was @ surgeon and a hair dresser always in attendance, “Bennolt Coiffeur” distinguishable under the coats paint put on the walls from time to time. A restaurant that belonged to the original baths is now a cafe, b %he paintings of the old days ate sti %0 be seen on the walls. 4 Napoleon's Cabin. A catafalque intended, legend says, to convey the remains of the first Napoleon from Havre to Paris, when his body Helena, was built @t the baths. the river froze that Winter and Napoleon's body had to be brought overland from Havre. There is one cabin in the Deligny Baths called the Cabin of the Emperor. hat is where Napoleon 11T used to foll away the Summer afternoons. Nowadays one often sees Deputies Jeave the Chamber and enter the Emperor’s cabin to put on bathing costumes. W. R. NELSON HOMESTEAD MAY HOUSE ART EXHIBIT Late Newspaper Founder's Prop- erty Offered Kansas City, Proceeds | Going to Building Fund. Br the Aseoclated Press. KANSAS CITY, October §.—The 20. | acre homestead of the late Willlam R Nelson, founder of the Kansas Ci has been offered to the city as | the site for a gallery to house the | art collection created by the trust fund left by Mr. Nelson. H. ¥. McElroy, city manager, in a | communication to the City Council proposed that the city buy the tract, | which'{s situated in the Rockhill resl’ | dentlal district developed by Mr. Nel- | son, and further revealed that Irwin Kirkwood, son-inJaw of Mr. Nelson | and editor of the Star, had offered to | turn back the proceeds into a build ing fund. | This money. added to the $500,000 Jeft by Mr. Nelson's widow for the erection of a bullding to house the art collection, would make possible the immediate construction of the first unit of such a structure. Florida Has Péetry i’rize. Bach vear Florida, through the So. | clety of Allied Arts, give a prize of $100 for the best poem written by a | Florida poet. It is known as the | Ponoe de Leon prize. It was won Agnes Kendrick Drake in 1926. Plan; for th® 1927 competition were under way at the time of the recent hur cane. . - . b Diamonds mined in Seuth Africa in the last six months were valued at more than $20,000,000. h | selves in geographical work < | three classe: THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, WOMAN GEOGRAPHERS OF U. S. UNITE FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY Membership Is Limiteq to Those Distinguished in Active Work. Mrs.Harriet Chalmers Adams Chosen President—D. C. Well Represented. For the first time a distinct club of woman hers has been formed in intry women who have diwinguished them- or in any of its allied branches to have a closer end more personal contact than that afforded” in the general like the National ty, with head- “or more than a y ar Mrs. Harriet halmers Adams, wife of Franklin Adams, counselor of the Pan-Ameri- can Union, has besn. working with several others of established repute In exploration and general geographi- cal knowledge to effect an organiza- tion. This has been done and Mrs. Adams was chosen president, with Miss Marguerite Harrison, formerly of Baltimore, but now of New York, as treasurer, and Mrs. Blair Niles, also of New York, as secretary. Washington will be the headquarters of the woman geographers. The present membership list contains the ames of 40 women who have estab: in many fields of . 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