Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-08-06

BArBING.--Onco a week is often enough
for a decent white man TO wash himself all
over; and whether I'm summer or winter, that
ought to be done with soap. warm watcr and
hogs hair brush. in "a room showing at least
seventy degrees Fahrenheit
Baths should be taken early in the morning,
for il is then that the systom possesses the
power Of reaction in the highest degree. Any
kind Of bath is dangerous soon after a meal,
or soon after iatguing exercise. No man or
woman should take a bath at the close of the
day. unless by the advice of family physi-
clan. Many % man. in attempting 90 cheat his
doctor out of Fec has cheated himself out
of bis life aye, it is done every day.
Tho best, safest. cheapest and most univor-
sally accessible mode of keeping the surface
of the body clean, besides the once "a week
washing with soap. warm water, and hog
hair brush, is as follows:
As soon as you get out of bed in the morn
ing, wash your face, hands, neck and breast;
them In tho same basin Of water, put your
feet for about minute. rubbing them briskly
all the time; then. with the towel, which has
been dampencd by wipiug the face, feet, &c,
wipe the whole body well, fast and hard,
mouth shut breast projecting. Let the whole
thing be done within five minutes.
At night when you go 90 bed, and when
ever You get out of bed during the night, or
when you find yourself wakctul or restless,
spend nom two TO five minutes IN rubbing
your whole body with your hands. as far as
you can reach in every direction. This has
tendency 20 preserve that soitncss and mobil-
NY Of SKIN which too frequent washlngs OF
the skin will always destroy.
That precautions are necessary IN connec-
ton with the bathroom rs imprcssivcly sig
mined m the death of am American lady of
refinement and position lately alter taking a
bath soon after dinner OF Surgeon Hume
Whiie alone ln "a warm bath ; and of am emil
nent New Yorker, under similar clrcumston-
cess all within O. yem.-h1ts Jo"r"oi of
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IHE SLAyEHuNrERs IRorHY. - A few
weeks since, it will be rccollccted. three slaves
escaped rom Missouri into Illinois, but were
pursued and oyortaken near Nashville, llli-
nois, 10y persons who held no writ OF process
whatever in their hands, but wished to obtain
the reward offered of 5000 The slaves We're
summoned to surrender, when they defended
themselves, and one of them was killed. The
man who shot the slave was acquitted of all
blame IN The matter, and the negro was bur-
led The Chicago Tribune says
The next morning the grocery rabblc car
ried the corpse out for burial. singing and
drumming ON the coffin the tune of Uncle
Neu' NuoSelu enuy' inc same crew assistea
the klunapper ON eNhumng the body, when
the head was drawn across the corner of the
coffin, and with m axe was discovered from
the couuptng remains and being placed In a
vessel of spirits, was taken to Missouri. The
honest Gcrman from whose shop the axe was
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