342 GOODYEAR ON GUM-ELASTIC. 



BATHING AND FLESH GLOVES. 



These are made of knit goods or elastic compound, with a sheet 

 of elastic tufted sponge cemented to the face of the glove. They 

 answer the common purposes of a flesh brush, and are made 

 superior to bristle brushes for bathing, as they are not softened 

 by being saturated with water. See plate , fig. 12. 



BATHING AND FLESH MITTENS. 



This article is very similar to the glove above described, ex- 

 cept that it answers the purpose of a clothes brush as well as 

 other uses, better than the glove, and they are somewhat differ- 

 ently made ; the inner part of the mitten being made of a sheet 

 of the sponge, instead of being lined or veneered with it like the 

 glove. See plate , fig. 13. 



BATHING PANTALOONS, 



These are made of vellum or plated fabrics. They are 

 evidently better adapted for the purpose of bathing than the 

 clothes which are commonly used at watering-places and at 

 public bath houses, and are the more convenient for being 

 gathered at the top and bottom, being shirred with an elastic 

 cord. See plate , fig. 14. 



SHOWER BATHS. 



The curtains of a variety of shower baths, both portable and 

 stationary, may be made of gum-elastic tissue and vellum, among 

 which may be noticed those represented by figs. 21, 22, and 



