---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 1
number: 2
published: 1897-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Shower Bath," *Improvement Era* 1, no. 2 (December 1897): 110.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera12unse
start_page: 110
end_page: 110
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1897-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12unse
  publication_year: 1897
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1897, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Shower Bath

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public was uncertain, Utah's voice was raised in behalf of the Constitution and the integrity of the union. On the 20th of January of that year a constitutional convention, which had met at Salt Lake City, concluded its labors after adopting a state constitution (which was a model in its provisions) and a memorial to congress, praying for the admission of Utah.

At a general election subsequently held, the constitution was unanimously adopted by the people; and officers of the proposed state were elected. Hons. George Q. Cannon and W. H. Hooper were selected as senators and Dr. Bernhisel as representative to congress. It was thought that the loyalty of the people in the dark hour of the nation's peril would disarm her enemies. In wealth, population and resources she possessed all the requirements for statehood, but notwithstanding all this and the able and unflagging labors of the senators-elect and her representative, congress not only denied statehood, but launched the first anti-Mormon legislation which had emanated from the national government.

THE SHOWER BATH.

Quoth Dermot (a lodger at Mrs. O'Flynn's): 'How queerly my shower bath feels! It shocks like a posse of needles and pins, Or a shoal of electrical eels."

Quoth Murphy: "Then mend it, and I'll tell you how: It's all your own fault, my good fellow; I used to be bothered as you are, but now I'm wiser— I take my umbrella."