The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-05-17
The Nsishbor Of Goallness.


good health. And almost esesyhodv de.
sires to make 4. hleasiilo persoi,st iihpres.
sion mon Others. and aimost everybody
desires TO have The mental and physicsl
faculties at their best, and the virtue all
that yirtue can be.
OF course there is NO one speci6c. NO
elixir Of life. whose single dfautht can
effect ali this. But there is specific that
/ can help us long way. toward such an
end. and can. at all 0dds. put Us in the
condition to make The most of ourselves.
and that Is the old neighbor of goodness
cleanliness. sTs4S -
Cleanliness has from time immemorial
been recognized as not luxury simply
but q necessity of 'mankindsas well: and
the ancient races made such wonderful
and magnificent provision for it that It's
very ruins astound us: while we put up
two or three clapboarled shanties In our
great cities forfhe use Of the populaCe. and
consider ourselves, when all is said-if we
do not build and sculpture SO velvet
much the superior people.
Perhaps we are as clearly as any other
people, and more SO than some; bat there
is room for the exercise of vet great
deal more care of our bodies, and it
will never be undertaken as a matter of
habit by the masses till 1t has been car.
ried through az matter of conscience BY
the individual And those individuals
who have wealth and state are the ones
with whom the responsibility rests, since
it is they that the populace initiate as far
I as they are able. Thus 1t becomes them to
make as much of circumstance of clean.
illness as they do Of beauty equipage and
luxury in general.
Cleanliness, in state of civilization, is
luxury as well as necessity. 1t is not
one of the things to be picked nh In the
street or the fields; as soon as we gongre-
gate in cities. water ceases to be free as
air. Some effort has TO be made then. if
not before, to attain cleanliness. Those
| vino have the means to be easily clean are
| certainly ALWAYS in better circumstances
! than those to whom much water. any
! tepid water, any privacy and apparatus
| for bathing, are difficult of attainment:
| 50 that, IN way, cleanliness is. or should
| be, one of the measures of social standing.
| But all do not think of this. or else
! hold themselves clean enough without
| much effort. They mean to be clean but
| to. morrow-to.day they have something
more important to attend to: and. 80. like
| the man in the Blithedale Romance, u,
| they rinse the front of their faces and con.
slider their tcilettes made; thew know they
must repeat the operation tomorrow, and
| tomorrow they will take more pains; if,
| indeed, they are not of those who. when
| they think they have the operation to re.
peat ad tnfiattam. are ready 10 sit down in
| despair and not dodf at ali.
| There is a great deal of cleanliness sac.
rificed to a misunderstood convenience.
| 1t should really be the most convenient to
be clean, to have ones skin healthy, ones
pores open, and ones blood circulating.
| But one Is chilly-one must make haste
to the fire and be more comfortable: or
one must get ones breakfast and be off to
business, because that pays. But one
would possibly know nothing about chill
illness if one took the brisk bath and the
quick rub, and set the blood to spinning
warm and red and one will find that
business ceases to pay when all the ducts
are clogged, the skin is sallow, tie hair
is fallen, and the overtaxed organs that
are obliged to do the work of the neg
lected skin give way and break down
into complication of all sorts of diseases
that put an end to business altogether.
that the ten minutes bath every morning
could have prevented.
For il. need not be ten minutes, indeed,
if it is done every day; there will be moth
ing that needs serious scrubbing in such
case, and the rapid passing of the wet
sponge, and the quick strong use of the
coarse towels afterward, will take hardly
SO much time as that.
Again, in the mere matter of good
looks, who is there that does not prefer the
society of the clean person who is plain to
that of the unclean person who is other
wise lovely S-allowino that on ,,roIa.n