2960. Bathing.—If to preserve health be to save medical expenses, without even reckoning upon time and comfort, there is no part of the household arrangement so important to the domestic economist as cheap convenience for personal ablution.
2961. Whoever fits up a bath in a house already built, must be guided by circumstances; but it will always be proper to place it as near the kitchen fire-place as possible.
2962. From thence it may be heated, or at least have its temperature preserved by means of hot air through tubes, or by steam prepared by the culinary fire-place, without interfering with its ordinary uses.
2963. A small boiler may be erected at a very small expense, in the bath-room, where circumstances do not permit these arrangements.
2964. Whenever a bath is wanted at a short warning, to boil the water necessary will always be the shortest mode; but where it is in general daily use, the heating the water by steam will be found the cheapest and most convenient method.