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Two Irishmen w€re standing on the corner in New York City. It was a holiday of some sort, and down the middle of the street came a very colorful parade. It was the Shriners, and they were in full regalia as they marched to a lively band piece.

They were something brand new to one of the Micks who was not long from the Old Sod, and he looked at their costumes and fezzes with open mouth,and wide eyes.

Home Builders Elect Pqrdee

The Home Builders Institute, trade association of Los Angeles ancl Orange counties, last month elected ne'iv officers f.or 1957. They are: president, George M. Pardee, Jr. ; first and second vice presidents, Milton J. Brock, Jr. and Ben C. Deane; secretary, John D. Griffith; treasurer, Ray K. Cherry. George O. Prussell continues as executive vice-president. The new slate will be installed in Januarv. President-elect Pardee served the HBI as 1955-56 chairman of the NAHB's important FHA-VA Committee. A member of a two-generation family in the home-building

"What the divil are them?" he wanted His friend, more sophisticated, said: to know. "Well, what the twenty-five dol- business in Southern California, Pardee said he sees a continued population growth in the area n'ith an undiminished demand for new homes.

"Them's Shriners."

"And what's Shriners?"

"Shriners are Masons," said the other.

"Masons ! said the other, in disbelief. divil are they striking for-they're getting lars a day now."

NCIO Holds Annuol Election

The directors of the Northern California Lumber Operators Association met November 20 to elect 1957 officers. Sarn Davis of the Jolly Giant Lumber Co. was re-elected president, Dick Norris of Van de Nor Lumber Co. was elecied vice-president, and Charles I\I. Rubyn is secretarymanager.

Rub-o-Dub-Dub - 2,@O Yeors in cr Tub

More than 2000 years of changes in the art of selfsudsing are shown in "Bathtubs Through the Ages," a collection of antique tubs and showers which has been placed on exhibit at the National HouSing Center, Washington, D.C., from November 8 to January 10. Valued at more than $120,000, the 12 tubs range in time from the days when Julius Caesar cast the die at the Rubicon to the gay nineties when Edwardians first realized that the proper place for a bathtub is the bathroorrr..

"In tracing the fascinating transition of bathing facilities through the ages, this exhibit illustrates the,,progress of bathing from the status of a luxury for t!re. privileged few to an everyday necessity for the mar1y," said Neal J. Hardy, director of the Center.

Some of the tubs are striking in artistic craftsmanship. Some are intriguing because of their ingenuity. Others reflect a desire to use a bathtub for bathing-dining, and even bathing-entertaining-all properly decorous, of course.

Real Yankee ingenuity is shown in a couple of tubs. The "Closet Tub" (circa 1870) is a two-way bath that can fold into its own closet, like the famous "Murphy" bed. Bathing suits were rvorn in the days of this tub.

The Virginia "Stool Shower" of the 1830s is a "Rube Goldberg" type of invention. The shower has a revolving seat and, when a lever is worked back and forth, water flows over the bather while a brush scrubs his back simultaneously.

The Roman tub is the earliest known movable tub in existence. Made of white marble, it weighs a half a ton and is handsomely decorated in a classic motif.

"Baignoire" is the name for the 18th Century French Settee tub. A lid draws up over the bather like a quilt, and in the 18th Century it was possible for a bather in this tub to eat, drink, and exchange gossip with friends while sudsing.

General Nathaniel Woodhull, who was said to have been ordered by his British captors in the Revolutionary War to say, "God save the king," and replied "God save us all"-is represented in the collection by his personal. violin-shaped tub. Made of copper, it has a handle at one end for hanging or carrying.

Around the years 184G1850, when women used the flying-saucer-shaped "Hat Tub," they added crushed strawberries to the bath water as a beauty treatment. In the days when the stool shower was in vog'ue, ladies mixed eggs and rose water into a paste for beautifying the skin.

"Bathtubs Through the Ages" has been assembled through the cooperation of the Crane Company, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation, and the Cleanliness Bureau of the American Soap and Glycerine Producers, fnc.