Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-04-29
The California Farmer on
Cleanliness.

Doctor, have sent for you to see nv
/ child. II has been feserieh for several
! days, and | am much alarmed. What do
/ yuu think is the matter, doctorI"
well. madam, what has your child
eaten to day 2"
well, doctor, Johnny had only two or
| three slices Of fat bacon, besides his rota-
toes, and pickles, and CT fee. for his bI Teak
fast AID for dinner. be ate his pork and
cabbage, and his unions and cucumbers, as
usual and | afterwards gave him piece
OF mince pie %
as tina: all, madam"
"Well, now, / do recollect, doctor, he
cried for some lunch, and gave him some
| plumcake and some candy but he did not
eat all the candy-he said it made him
sick, and he began to cough; and really,
doctor, he eoughed till he was black IN the
! face 20
81 should think, so radami When was
be hathed last. Mrs. C, %
"Reaily, doctor, don't know never
have been in the habit Of bathing nv
children, except washing their faces and
hands 20
We'll. madam. If ycu will now prepare
good bath of soap and water for your
child, ard wash him from head 10 foot sud
rub him dry, and put him I, bed. 20 rest.
he WON'T look black in the face again. at
least today And now. madam, let me ak
you. rs your family ply sician, 81 you prao-
tice bathing daily?'
| "Oh, Lord, NJ, doctor, except nv face
and hands | have net bathed since last
winter-sone three months ego. can,
find time to do it, for am 50 feeble. and
have so much to do when III, IN nv feet.
that ;here Is no time to baihe.'
We'll, padam, you say you are 80 fee
1 ble pray tell me your case. What asakes
| you feeble"
"Wel, doctor, my skin is hot and fever.
ish. and my food dent relish nv head
aches. and feel dull ard heavy. ard all
manner Of aches and pains, so l can hard.
/ IL stand ur."
"Now, Mrs. c., suppose You should pot
gravel stones IN your coffee M II wien YOU
grind your coffee, don't you think it would
/ iniure the MILF"
"Certeiuly, doctor"
"Aud suppose you should plaster ~ the
under ride Of your sieve when YOU are
sitting your flour for your bread, don I Won
think 1t would stop the fine particles Of
four from passing through p"
Surely. doctor"
"Wsl, then, If yen put into johnny =
stomach such mess q food rs you did
to-day, u is the same thing as stones 10 The
coffee mill for the machinery OF the siom-
ach can't grind Ii. and # You allow him
I or Yourself 10 go unwasbed on the whole
body, it is just the Same az rlastoring up
the sieve; Tor the pores of The .dy are ;he
sieve through which the moisture and fine
particles you eat are thrown of a. well as
al things which the stomach will not re-
coive; and to-day that pork fat and lum-
pudding, aud mince pie, was worse for
Johnny's stomach than the stones in the
coffee mill; and the effort bis stomach
made to grind them caused the fever. And
when some Of that mass of "a. tried TO get
out through the skin, it couldn't got out,
madam p! 1t coulin't got out Of the dirt,
madam! Yes, dirt. madam =! for il was dirt
madam. that made your child black in the
face! / see lots Of children that look black
in the face every day, madam and often
parents too! Cleanliness Is Gocliness,
madam, you knew the Good Book Gays, and
we can easily have some Goodness by using
soap and water. And, madam, IL parents
wOUld use a little more soap ard water
their Doctors bills would not be 20 large
and If they would Only put into their chill
dren's stomachs, and their owal too, Jus;
such food as the stomach could q ind, and
always be sure to keep the sieve Of their
skin clean, the butchers bills would be
. small, and the doctors would not be wanted.
Remember, madam, Cleanliness is Godli-
nessi"