Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1849-07-20
Plain Talk q tl,n Girls.

Plain Talk 10 The Girls.
You, 500 girls, Mrs Smith---thst Is John
Smiths wife--iold Sarah brown that she heard
Judy Stubs telling Melissa Stubs that Mrs
Thonpscn'e girls heard Mrs johnson say some.
bodys cousin told II ut quilting, IN our settle
ment somcwhere, that you girls do not wash
yourselves more than once n month and sonc OF
yon not that often Now you seeI never should
have believed il, bu, am sure Mrs Smith would
tell no lie about II and the story IL, that YOU
wash your faces hands and nrcks Just because
people can sec them, and just on purpose to
make folks believe YOU arc very cltsniy but
that the part Of your person that Is covered
"never sees water" unless you take notion 10
20 and bathc for SPORT once or twice in u sum.
mer. Now, Of course this is Just like securing
the outside Of churn or dough-trough, and cav-
ing the inside TO blpc-moud You good for
nothing, baking, boiling, washing, scrubbing,
stitching, saucy jades, how can you be so dirty?
You deserve TO have the cholera and yellow
fever, and to die old maids into the bargain -
Do you know that Jvur skin Is full Of little OPEN
ings called pores, through which large portion
of the food you cat ought to pass off in tho form
Of pcrspirationY Your body il perpetually de-
cayinR and being renewed. Your food forms
new blood, new flesh, new muscles aud bones !;
and the old, refuse, dccayed PARTICLES want to ret
away out Of the road, or rather the new supply
Of vital matter wants TO throw them OIL. Just as
living folk bury the dead. The way for these
little dead particles 10 get away is through these
thousands Of curious little doors in your skin,
and Il you let them stick fast until the doors gel
closed up, |, will not be easy for any mora to get
through so they must stay where they are not
wanted, and load the fresh young blood with I'M
purity, roitenness and disease, just as IL people
were left in the house after they were dead and
decaying. When YOU do not wash yourselves,
your skin is clogged with impure, foul matter,
and it is no matter how much floor scfubbine or
tnscouring you have done ; no matter how
many clean clothes YOU have on, you arc dirty.
Now, is that plain EnglishT
Psychologists urge, in very plnin terms, the
propriety of bathing, il is good for the health
aud il has now become quite genteel for people
who can afford it, to have bath house, and to
go 10 the springs or sea shore 10 baihc. This 10
all well and right; but have An idea that IL
some Of them had always used basin OF water
and coarse towel at home, they would not re-
qure sea bathing so much. You have all heard
the story OF the doctor who told the anxious
mother TO take her sick child 10 the springs:
"What springs, doctor I" she drawlcd.
20, no matter which, so you take plenty Of
soap along"
Few doctors have tho courage TO tell their pa
tiehts they are dirty, and recommend washing
in basin OF water; but many dose Of medi-
cine they give 10 drive away dirra,es that grew
from the closing up Of the pores Of the skin
Cold water has = healthy, bracing cfect that no
one would believe who had not tried il. II you
are subject TO sore throat, never roll your neck
in flannel, but take the coldcst water you can
get, every morning, or oftcner, and haihc all
round the back Of your nsck aud ears with
handiuls Of it, and you viii get rid Of your quinn
~ in time. ] used to have quinsy aud rn,rid
sore threat about three times year, but have
no, had an attack for nearly four years If you
are predisposed TO consumption, sit up strait,
throw back your Shoulders and wear loose
clothes, wash your shoulders and breast every
morning in cold water, and ub them dry with =
coarse towel, laugh with the children and sing
with the liFfls. and the consumption viii be apt
TO leave. II It gnes you cod TO get your feet
damp wash them well in cold water every night,
rub them dry, and The dew will never melt them.
do wish could convince you how very ra,, il
is 10 wash yourselves all over once a day Il
docs not take more than fifteen minutes two
quarts OF water in BASIN wash fsg and n
coarse towel and how ni,e and fresh and lean
YOU feel after IL II would 10 much towards
eornieracting The effect Of your rich Diet, hy
opening up thousands Of Little safety valves 10
let the surplus matter Of grease, &c. escape from
the blood il is loading aud reihrding in il, quick
journeys through every part Of your body Il
would aid so much 10 preserve your health,
cheerfniness aud compile Sion---tn Ee~P---y ~.
saow color from your checks and The darn shsd-
ows from your eyes just try IL, and will en-
gage your roSes will not be all May roses, hat
last until yonr june. Mrs Stcisshrf,a.