Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-03-15

BOHEMIAN, M. T., THURSDAY, MARCH Is, 1877.

undershirt Or stray rent in II pair of draw
lers. half The people Of the universe would
long since have blown to pie es from tn
mere force of bad air generated frul,
themselves.
But what of i'?-wcll, just this: A mar
should wash daily frol. head to foot--snt
III the doub.er Will but ''go nosiny" abou
himself little after lie hasn touched
soap for u we' k, he'll CONC 10 the cOnclu
sion. himself, that the Lord made hin .
stink pot and that, after all, 'cleanlines:
must be next to Godliness
One, however, ish't called upon to soak
himself 10 a pulp in a tub. or sl,iver him
SET to an iclce in fresh weIl-wat. r-a
sponge will do. and not so much water is
needed that anyoody will be robbed. Ten
minut's S at the business will send one out
fresh on his ear, and able to legitma,cly
''holI his nose abOve'' his dirty friends
who meet him
But, then, hat is the use of the bath
tub when a min goes to BID in his ,laily
undrrclothe-? Not much, We guess. After
cutting wood, or iustling about all day
long. ore goes 10 bed to hibernate ighl
hours beneath n Mass OF bed clothes. and
with the assistance Of his bodily furnace
iaccumul .'es enough foetid matter upon
his cpidermi> and his shirt and drawers to
start Il f. r'ilifer factory with a run upon
ut for ITS product. By the time the week
lis out those u dcrc'oih. s, worn night and
day, woulh enrich a ten acre 1T it hung
over the fence in the wind. There are
people who t il k 1t b,neful to wash. and
there are people who ,hlnk it dangerous
to change their undertaking, us they
say. too often. But, we imagine. they
contradict the old ahage which declares
The fox smells his own hole first
Now. do we mean one should 90 to bed
naked? No sir, he should wear night
shirt or suit OF uh,lerclo,hing retained
as specially for bed as boots are retained
for his daily walk and life.
Too much trouble. did you say. to wash
and scrub. and undre>s, and fuss and
scramble around getting diy?
If you'd stop 10 'hink. you'd conclude
that man. with every pore closed up,
and h.s corporation covered with di,iy
duds. and every inch of him smelling like
a gas fac'ory. and his dirty h al making
a ,'a'' of smirci, ur"n the pillow, and his
var'cgaied feet Dearly Knocking the soles
from his boots. would bic w up and scat
ter to the four quarters Of the known
globe from mere force of stink.
One can prove all this by abstaining
from the wash tub few days-and then.
# he tan stay in the room with himself
while he rubS his dirty skin With "a brush,
it WILL lie bec,nse he c=h't see, can't
SIN II, can eat dit. and cOnld outlive a.
sand storm on the Desert of Sahara.
Now. what Is tn" long and short Of al
rhi>? Ask the dog. which airs itself daily.
stretch d TO dis,rt Sion in the sun ask
til" cat, which iicks and washes and
shakes itself. aLd dies in a fit it it c Mt
Ak the skunk, which delivers s.lf, tia,
it may have resp eta le "nts-ask
Dne self if the TO icing of yourself IL week
don't make II 50 ncce>s ary to comfort and
'tlf respect that the experiment must
become hab!t.
All these animals, ones self includel
will reply that half the ills ttat flesh is
le,r to result from drt-that dirt makes
smell. an! smell makes d a'h, aud thai
i.a,t, must sn1 adirtv man to the regions
y thunder and lightning
We don't believe St. Peter ever
u, ned his back upo, clean man who
lied III fr.s!: underclOl hes.
VESUVlUS. I.