, 1862-06-05

n summer or winter, we detest, except Il
Be 70 jump q 70 q river, splu ge about for
two or three minutes. and then dress and
walk home as hastily as possible. All ami
mate nature, except the hydric, instinctively
shrinks from the application of cold water,
if in health. Everybody knows that cold
water cannot wash the hands clean, and yet
whole TONES are scribbled about the purify
ing effects of cold water. Cold water kills
more than Il cures. Hundreds Of children
are killed every year BY fanaticaI mothers
souslng chem bead apd ears, IN cold water
every Day. s
We never saW . modern bath tub until
We were thirty years Of age, and ever since
We have not ceased to hate it with great cor
daily. on Account Of the mischief which IL
occasions. The ordinary use Of bath tub
isan indot1ncy A great deal Of stuff is
printed about the bathing habits Of lhe an
clients. abnnt tho Easiern nations, and their
love Of lho hath. What IL they did lopeitl
lhe ancients have all gone % grass long ago,
aud Eastern nations are gong 70 pot as
fast as po& hla Individually and collec-
tivolyl The average Of human life Is
shorter, By many years, aInnng Eastern
peoples than AIMING fhe Western. OF three
lnnlfe1 i1lnbiiahls In the United Slales
only bur pefsons de every year, while 81
die IN England, and eight 10 France, and the
farther We 60 " East the greater Is the NOR
iality. As % The United States, il is the
healihiesi country on tho globe, as a whole /;
ncrording TO ihe last statistics. Virginia, the
very emb,,dimrut of tie Great unwashed," ("
i ths hcallhicd of hef hoalhy sisters, and
next comes North Carolina, an smoked with
pine knots, and begrimmed with coal dust
aud tar and i is dnultfnl II one in ten
thouaand of its families ever saw a modern
hlih tub. %
How mDy of our grandaires, now hale
and hearty at three seore and-ten, ever lelt
q shower bath, or jumped into tub Of cold
water 70 vashiheniatlpes Who are thet,
nmoneal the beautiful women Of present or
past time, whose cheeks are the softest aud
Iemeip ihe longest from the wrinklrs pt agel
Ih1y are llusl nho never washed their
faces N cold water; and il indeed they were
washed a. all, Il was dole With warm vater
Or spirits of wine, As praeliced in the time
N Louis Quatorze. Soft As velyet i lho
chork n infancy; and 4 only grows harsh,
nndhard. and rough. as the practice gains u
washing them with cold water.
A pig gets no cleaner BY NallowIna n
puddle. yet men and women wallow IN a
bath nb dluting the excretions from name
less parts Of ihs person, % come IN contacl
with The cleaner hands and face, and even
lipa L nayhBl
fespleihlk giibly abori the bafhine hab-
- u iho Eastern Nations and the eleanll.
ness of he Hours. who gnce The Turkish
Hafem. and thak We essay an Imitation N
fbit fashion. A Turk takes bot bath, We
take cold one; we jump into bah tub,
ding which no decent Turk ever does
WeQufsfion i there i q single bah fub IN
~ tha domains Of the Snlian, nnless Z 81 ths
Eprnporty 81 Suns unieramado Yankee. A
TuEk washes under q stream o. running
water. after q vigorous irst-scrubbine, q
that No iupaI1 ni ic|b. l11seand from one
par m he hodT, can. hy possibility, con,
inco1iaci Wiib The body again. We uasl
ourselves IN bath rooms e cold e Green