The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-06-19
BarhinS.
BY ALoSzo LEWIS.


Animal life is sustained by three things
AIR, water, and food The first is most
essential, and with the first two, men NAV
exist considerable time. But most poo
pie appear 70 reverse the order. They make
food theiI chief aliment, and do with as
| ttle.ol the other two as possible. They
never think OF air; and seem to be inflicted
with an universal hydrophobia, drinking
liquid in every other possible form in pref.
erenee- They appear TO imasne that clean
YateE only requisite ias washin2. aasd sAen
they wash as little Of the person as may be
only the hands and the face. was
amused the other day, to hear a man IN a
BARRIERS shop ask the barber, after he had
done shaving, e Does my meek want
washing as if MANS neck did not want
washing every day. In my early life was
troubled with headache, sadness, and a
hundred other atrahilarious notions. | sci.
dom passed a summer without a fit Of sick
ness Of longer or shorter duration. Three
years ago, | removed to the seaside. where
| have abundance Of free air. and where I
battle in the'salt water almost daily. some
times twice a day, even IN March. Since
that time, have scarcely had an III day
my mind is as free as the air, and my spirits
buoyant as the wave. My health and
strength are better than when / was eight
cen yeas OF age. | live in a town con
tanning eleven thousand inhabitants, and /
suppose that one half of them never bathed
in their lives-they would much sooner
think Of taking a voyage OF three thousand
miles over the ocean, than Of being Ihree
seconds under it. know one man who Is
more than sixty years Of age, who says he
never washed all over in his life; vet he is
wealthy and respectable man, and would
be very much offended if any one were to
call him dirty fellow The celebrated
Judge S was remarkable for his inattenton
to personal cleanliness, and sometimes wore
his linen two weeks One day a Young
lawyer undertook 20 demonstrate with him
on the subject How often do you change
your linen : asked the Judge. Every
day, was the reply. "Well," said the
Judge, what dirty fellow you must be .
Some people too, never clean their teeth.
| know one man who is good moral reform
er, yet his breath IS 80 offensive that il IS
unpleasant TO converse with him. | have
had some Compliments paid me ON account
of my writings, but never one which valued
so highly, as the remark Of lady His
breath is sweet as new milk" | can have
no idea ora person being pious, who is no.
Clearly. 1t has been said cleanliness Is q
part of goodness. | think il IS very
essential part. Ii was the advice Vi an
apostle TO one he loved" keep thyselI
clean a"
There was great wisdom in the Tab5ini.
cal injunction, not to eat with mwashe6
hands--it showed that be who first made il
thought bathing more important than eating.
He who created the universe, evinced his
knowledge of the properties Of water. when
be made il palatable to every taste; and he
exhibited his sense Of ITS importance when
he covered three-fourths Of the globe with
water! If some people had created the
world il would have been all land am
often excited to laughter, when ladies ask
me, Are you not afraid to live so near the
water " What do such ladies imagine
water to be ...
Multitudes of peoPlo shut themselves uF
by dozens, in shosmakeTs' shops, factories
and book-binderies, passing paper over the
window joints to keep out the air, and ther
wonder they are sick. II they would come
on; in the open atmosphere, and battle three
times a week in the ocean, they might hav'
less fancies, and jump over five rail fence
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