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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1887
Page
3
A New York reporter quotes a gentleman proposing a Parisian bath system that delivers a full tub, warm peignoir, and powder bath treatment to a client in bed. The plan promises convenience for those without bathrooms, claiming medicinal and fragrant benefits, with a suggested price half of Paris.
French doctors report hypnotism yielding durable changes in boys at a refuge. Youths previously deemed irreclaimably bad were guided to obey teachers and adopt clean habits, with one former leader’s conduct radically transformed after months of hypnosis.
The article reports on experiments and opinions about heredity of eye color, noting that children often share eye colors with parents and that mixed parental colors affect the odds of blue or gray eyes. It also includes a dental/eye care aside with crude home instructions and garbled commentary from several sources.
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