The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-06-07
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| ever, adhering to anything, renders it fouI
or unclean." Our eyes tell US that it takes
! away the beauty of whatever i: touches
Our noses tell US that it is extremely dis
gushing and our feelings tell US that il is re-
pugnant to health and comfort, and purity
and social enjoyment.
Dirt is not part Of our nature: il is pa.
rasite thriving on our hearts blood, ike a
vampire
They say the vampire sucks away the life,
without the poor patient knowing anything
about it. 1t is just the same with dirt
Four-ffths Of mankind live in dirt. and lose
a large part of their health and comfort in
consequence What is it that robs the
towns, of nearly half their natural term OF
life Dirt; dirt on the person, in the
houses, in the streets, and in the air
I What is il tina: makes the children fretful,
impatient, and bad tempered, DIRT,
again. What IS it that keeps rich people
from associating with the poor, from sitting
by them at meetings, OF letting them come
TO their houses; Often. not SO much pride
as DmT. What is it that DESTROYS self.re-
spect, makes men careless and degraded,
and ~eei,s-.s H. natural restraints of mo-
destyg Dirt, again. What is it that makes
the pret,iest face ugly, the finest clothes
tawdry. the cleyerest man disasreeable. and
the most spleniid house uninhabitable =
DIgT, again.
AWAY, THEN, WITH DIRT.
Welcome water and air, sand and soap,
even besoms and scrubbing brushes! The
child who fetches pail Of water into the
house is an angel Of mercy, while the man
that brings in a jug of ale is beginning the
work OF demon. The man who takes the
nourishiug food that God sends for our sup
port, turns it into poisonous spirit, and (a!-
ter mixing it with corrupted water) offers it
his brother to drink, gives pleasure to
fends But the poor mechanic who takes
the putrid .allow and the dirty ashes, and
changes them into dirt-destroying soap, is
doing noble work 1t is like what the Di-
vine Being does in nature. He takes the
filth PARTICLES that nauseate us, and the bad
air that robs US Of our health; and with
| this he nourishes the plants, and forms a
new store of food to support, and of herb
age and flowers that delight US.
LoATHE DIET
You cannot help it at work but when
work is over, taste no food TIL you have
cleaned yourself. Wash your whole body
over every morning and puton clean clothes
as often as ever you can. You could soon
the publican gave you back your money,
and you gave him back his ale Don't take
those dirty drinks; cool yourself with the
fresh, clear water which Nature filters so
beautifully for you in the bowels of the
earth. Whitewash your cottage, and open
your windows. Don't grudge either time or
money that is spent in cleanliness and try
to live where your neighbors are clean also,
lest you suffer from their dirt. For
DIRT IS POISON!
1t gets into the body through the pores Of
the skin, and the dirty gases enter with the
air into the lungs. 1t mixes with the blood,
and makes it corrupt; and often fevers, chO-
lera, consumption, and other fatal diseases
are the result. All Stops. middens, and un-
drained places hSlp to poison the air, and
we should wash them away as fast as we
can. There ought to be drain and water
closet in every house, sewer in every
street, and, above all, plentiful supply Of
water to flush the dirt away. The places
where many of the poor reside are only fit
for drunkards; they are too bad for beasts.
If working men spent part of their drinking
money in house-rent. such places would be
deserted and soon pulled down.
\ clean man respects himself, and edu-
Gates his eyes and nose ts the observance of
decency. He is not afraid of going any,
where, or ashamed Of being in the company
of any one. The dirty man cares for nobo-
dy, and yet sinks away from respectable
people.
CLEANLINESS is NEXT TO GOODNESS.
An habitual'y dirty man can hardly be
religious. He is breaking one of the first of
natures laws. Cleanliness in person pre-
pares for purity of heart, and for a recep-
ton of the liie-giving principles of the Cos
pei.
FRESH AIR, PURE WATER, AND GOOD SOAP FOR
EVER! DOWN WITH DIRT!
Reader! if you have not done so already,
60 and wash yourself now. Throw the to-.
bacco-box into the fire !; leave intoxicating
drinks at the public house, and never 60
there, and become clean, sober man.
| Life Illustrated.
| PRINCE MURAr AT BoRDENrowS.-Thisi is
preeminently the age of vicissitudes. A few
years ago there was an obese loafer at Bor-
dentowD, N. j.. who used to drink with fel-
lows about town, and borrow two shillings
at time from the gentlemen Of the place,
while his wife kept most respectable school
and his alistocratic daughter was the Gym
sure of all eyes at church. Now this same
free and easy idler, whose scores at the Bor-
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