Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-10-30

I'tiilVN " lhc IU'cIdi use VI lndU Valuable
dctergcnt-soap.
For the strict purpose of health, neither
a plunge nor q shower bath is necessary
the latter is even obnoxious to some tenn
pcraments; the most comfortable and
hcaithful form of bath is at the same time
the most facile--a sponge bath-cxpedi-
ton in It's use being the most important
element
The bath itself should never exceed five
minutes; the rubbing (the most essential
part of the proccss) occupying another five
minutes or morc-an amount of time that
every man can afford at the beginning of
the day. This bath should be taken i'm
mcdiatcly on rising in the morning, as at
such timoreaction is greater and quicker
than at any other period of the twcnty-fou
hours
1t is very necessary to attend to the tenn
pcrature of the water, and of the room in
which the bath is taken. During hot wealth
er, water may be used at the ordinary tenn
pcraturc of the atmosphere, the room ind-
eating not less than 20 deg. Fahronhcit.-
But at aless external heat than 70 deg. the
water should be warm, or at least tcpid.
A sudden cold chill on the surface of
the body is prcjudicial to health; it checks
the circulation of the blood to the extcr-
nal surface, interfcres with the secrctious,
and particularly arrests the excreting pow
or of the skin
It's popular belief with mothers, that
washing young children daily, in cold wa
ter, makes them hardy. This is a grave
mistake; the feeble circulation of child
requires the aid and assistance of warmth
warm water and warm clothing. The
greatest medical man who ever livcd-John
llunter-rccommend three rules for the
management of children, and they express
the substance of volume he says /: "Give
them plenty of milk, plenty of Sleep, and
plenty of flannel"
For adults to bathc after q meal or af-
ter fatiguing exercise is eminently danger
Gus. Three fatal cases were recorded bv
the New York papers, all occurring within
year, from this sule cause the first was
the death of an American lady of refine
ment and position, from taking bath soon,
after dinner; of Sergeant Hume, while
alone in a warm bath; and of Lorenzo b.
Sheppard, OF New York, and under pre-
ciscly similar circumstances.
Those persons who do not happen to pos
sess sponge, may resort to the follc,iing
/! plan with great advantage ; as soon as om
get out of bed in the morning, wash your
hands, face and neck then, in the same
BASIN OF water put your feet at once for
about half minute, rubbing them briskly
at the time; then, with the towel that had
been dampcd by wiping the face, feet, &c,
rub your whole body well, (without the ad-
dltion ofmerc water,) fast and hard, mouth
shut, the breast projecting Allow five
minutes for this operation.
There is yet another plan, superior in
some of its effects to all that has preceded
it; atnight, when you go to bed and when
ever you get out of bed during the night,
spend from two to FIVE minutes rubbing
your whole body and limbs with your hands.
as far as you can reach in every direction
let it be done briskly, quickly and hard
by this practice the sottness and mobility
OF the skin will be preserved, which too fire.
quont washing has tendency to destroy.
MEN enjoy mountains; women enjoy
waterfalls. There is no saying why it is,
but the fact is positive. Perhaps it NAV
be that men toll up the rugged steep with
greater ease, and therefore enjoy themscl-
YES more when they get to the ton. Per
haps IT is that there is something grand,
and bold and rough, and dangerous in the
very nature of a mountain which the mag
cuinc mind is alone capable of understan
ding. In waterfalls there is all the beauty
of form, ndlight, and graceful motion and
cooling freshness, and ever-shadowy trees
and an escape from the noontide sun, and
the hum of insect life, and the mossprown
stones and grassy banks. Waterfalls and
their adjuncts have kind of mystic infu-
encc upon them that acts with all persua.
sNe energy on the female heart. Hearts.
like stones, arc worn down by their action,
and the swain has been often irJcbted to,
Naiad Tor the granting of his prayer,
THOMAS SiNGLETARY ALIAS SINoL.qA ARY.---.o
This singular being and supcrannuated Typo.
| was IN oar office on last Saturday evening.
! en- route God knows whero He Inns lost his
right eye since we last saw him, which DIS
! figures him little. When We weresan ap.
! prci tice some twenty years ago we became
acquainted with the little man. He worked
in the same Office with us at the time. and
many a time he would relate his adventures
tc uS--and we would wonder that so amall NJ
mortal could undergo so mnch, We will ven
turc tohsscft that he has tTareled further ON
foot than any other man in tlie,Gnitod States.
md thacE is still ho goes. He certainly
must be the travelling Jcsg repesentol by
the author of Eugene Sue.--9aSkegee Dome.
e,ut.
Il "IIERE's Webster on a bridge. said
Mrs. Darlington, as she handed to Ike the
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