The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-07-19
HOW TO MAKE HOME UNHEALTHY,
A BEDROOM PAPER.


as to prevent foul air from escaping IN the night
You will, of course, have no hole through the wal
into the chimney; and no sane man, IN the season,
would have a door or window open. Use no per-
forated zinc in paneling; especially avoid it in small
bedrooms. so you will get the room full of bad
air. But in the room there is bad, worse, and
worst your object is to have the worst AIR possible.
Suffocatng machines made by every uphoster-
er; attach one to your bed; it is an apparatus of
poles, rings, and curtains. BY drawing your cur
tains around you before you sleep, you ensure to
yourself condensed body of foul air over your per-
SON. This poison vapor-bath you will find to be
most efficient when it is made of any thick mate
rial.
i There being Transportation through the skin it
would not be bad idea to see whether this cannot be
in some way hndered. The popular method will do
very well; smother the fie-h as much as possible in
feathers. A wandering princess, in some fairy tale,
came to a kings house. The kings vile, with the
curiosity and acutenes proper to her sex, desired to
know whether their guest truly bern princess,
and discovered how to solve the question She put
three peas on the young lady's paiasse, and over
| them large feather bed, and then another, then
auother,-in fact, fifteen feather beds Next morn
ing the princess looked pale, and, in answer to in
qulries how she had passed the night said that she
had been unable to sleep at ALL because the bed had
Jumps in it. The kings wife knew then that their
guest showed her good breeding. Take this high
born lady for a model The feathers retain all heat
about your body and stie the skin so far efectually
that you awake in the morning peryaded by sense
OF languor, which must be very agreeable to per-
son who has it In his mind to be unhealthy. In or
der to keep check upon exhalation about your
head (Which otherwise might have too much the
way OF nature,) put stout closely night
cap People who are at the height of cleyerness in
this respect sleep with their heads under the bed
clothes. Take no rest hair-mattress; il is elias
TIC and pleasant, certainly, but does not encsse the
body; and therefore you a risk of not awaking
| languid.
Never wash when you 90 to bed; you are not 60
ing to see anybody, and therefore there can be no
use in washing. In the morning, wet no more skin
than you absolutely ust,-that is to say, no more
than your neighbors will see during the day,--the
face and hands. So much you may do with toler-
ably good WILL since it is the other part of the sur
face fthe body, more covered and more impeded
in the full discharge of its functions which has rath
er the more need Of ablution it is therefore lortu-
nate that you can leave that other part unwashed-
Five minutes OF sponging and rubbing over the
whole body M the morning would tend to nvigorate
the system, and would send YOU with cheerful glow
to the days business of pleasure Avoid it by an
means, if you desire to be Unhealthy. Let me note
here, that IN speaking of the poor we should abstain
from cedng to them an exclusive title, as 'sthe
Treat Unwashed. Will you, Mr.. N. or NJ, retire
INTO your room and strip. Examine your body; isl
clean, was it sponged this morning is there no dirt
upon 1t anywhere? If it be not clean, if it was moi
sponged, if water would look rather black after YOU
had enjoyed thorough scrub in il then is it not OBJ
ylous that you yourself take rank among the Great
Unwashed Byway of preserving distinction be.
tween them and us, | even think it would be no had
thing were we to advocate the washing of the
poor.
DO not forget that, although you must unfortunate
~ apply water to your face, you can find warrant il
custom to excuse you from annoying it with soap
ana Tor the water again, you are at liberty to tax,
vengeance by obtaining compensation damages GU
OF that part OF your head which the hair covers
Never wash it; so it; clog it with oil or lard.-eth
er of which will answer your purpose as either viii
keep out ar as well water, and promote tn,
growth OF thick morton Of scurE Lard in the bed
room Is called bears grease In connection with IL
virtues III promoting growth Of the hair, there is
tale which believe to be no fction;-n the CID
and profane jest of the man who rubbed deal DO,
with It overnight, and found hair-trunk in In,
morning. 1t Is said that the first adyenturer wh
advertised bears grease for sale, appended to tn
laudaton of its efficacy Nola Bene, that gentle
men, alter applying 1t, should wash the palms ofhei
hands, otherwise the hair would sprout out theme
also. admire that Spectator, grimy satiric at tn
expense both of himself and of his customers. III
TESTED at his own pretenslons; and declared by n,
oblique hint, that he did not look for friends anon
the scrupulously clean.
Tooth-powder Is necessary in the bedroom
Healthy stomachs will make healthy teeth and the
toothbrush and little water may suffice 10 kee
them clean. But healthy stomachs also NAL
coarse constitutions. 1t is vexatious that our teet
rot when we yitiate the fluid that surrounds them
AS gentlemen and ladies, we desire good teeth. the
must be secured aud hearth-stoned.
Of course, as you do not cleanse your body dali
SO you will not show favor to your feet. Keen nm
Que distinction between the upper and lower mem
pers When German prince was told confident
that he had dirty hands, he replied, with the liye
ness OF conscious triumph, 'Ach do YOU call IA
dirty You should see my toes - Some neonl
WASH thein once IN every month; that will do ver
well; or once year, it matters little which |
wna' washing you lind yourself unable to omit, us
only the hnest towels those which infict least fro
ton on the skin. '1''' ny
having made these arrangements for yoursel
take care that they are adhered to- as far al ma
convenient, throughout your household.
Here and there put numerous sleepers into n sir
gle room; tins is good thing for children. if Va
wish to banch them. BY little perseverance ais,
IN tins way, when you have too large family. w
can reduce it easily. BY all means let the bob
nave foul alr not only by the use of suiocatiye al
paratus, but by causing it to sleep where there an
iour or hive others in well-closed room. So muc
due TO the maintenance of our orthodox rate of !,
FAINT mortality. .tafsT8