The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-27
What is q Cold Bath z

What is a Cold Bath
The season of the year, says the Lam
Get, when very many people who have
experienced pleasure ana advantage from
daily cold bath have 10 discontinue it
has come. Months will elapse before the
return of genial weather will allow of
their indulgence in what may he termed
mans natural stimulant. Among the
Young and robust there are large num-
Der who are able to battle even in the
depths of winter. The advantage OF so
doing is, however, unquestionable. But
let it be once well understood what a cold
bath really is, and the course by which
which we can avoid Scylia and Charyb-
dis will be obvious. A cold bath is
not necessarily bath in water of
the temperature of the atmosphere. A
bath is truly and really cold when it pro-
duces certain physiological effects-a
slight momentary shock, followed by
pleasant and lasting reaction. These ef-
fects are, for the majority of people,
most pleasantly obtained by bathing in
water about thirty-tive degrees to forty
degrees below the tempe nature of the
body-the usual temperature Of unheated
water in June and July. Bearing this
in mind, we can enjoy our physiology
cal "cold" bath as safely and pleasantly
at Christmas as at midsummer, and
there is no necessity for the most timid
or weakly to discontinue his morning
tub because the summer weather is
over. When the water sinks below
temperature of sixty degrees, let i be
and we shall still have our "cold" bath.
| ,-r1, &c hootol Tho daily eli n, H.
| liant effect of such bath is so beneficial
to the great majority of persons, and IS
of such marked service in maintaining
health, that it is very important to have
it widely known that cold bath may be
taken all the year round, provided cold
is not mistaken to mean lat the tempera-
ture of the outer air." To heat our bath
during the winter months is often sup
posed to be unmanly, while in reality it
is truly scientific; and to battle in un
heated water all the year round, what
ever the temperature of that water may
be, is to prove ones self an ignorant
slave of outward circumstances.
We take the following from a recent
exchange: Americans have unques-
tionably more perishable teeth than Eng
lish-probably than the French or Span
ish. But whether they have worse teeth
than the mass of Italians, Germans. Rus
slams. or other races is by no means GER
tain. The common people, even many
of those of tOlerable circumstances, in
other lands, neglect their teeth, rarely
going or thinking of going to a dentist.
But here almost everybody depends on
art to make up for the ravages of nature.
This is clearly shown by the fact that not
less than II 900 dentists, or one to every
1000 inhabitants, find employment in
the United States. A prominent dentist
has lately published an article in which
he declares that about half ton of pure
gold-representing some $500, 000-is an
nually used for filling teeth in the Re-
public, and that nearly four times as
much material of cheaper sort, silver
and the like is used for the same purpose
He estimates that only three centuries
would be needed to put all the gold
coin now in circulation in the
Countrywide, 000, 600 dollars-into grave
yards by filling the teeth of different
generations. He also says that almost
5000, 600 artificial teeth are made oil
mounted on various kinds of plates
every year, and that out of an average oil
eighty persons of all classes here-the
estimate is based on carefully prepared
satisfactorily one person has perfectly
sound teeth. The statem, mt is not pleas
ant; but conceding its truth. if we to
not like it we can hardly resent it by
showing our town. teeth"
PARAFIN AS A WooD PREseavER. "A
German chemist, DR.. Scbal. has ut
lished the useful fact, says the Enginee
that wood impregnated with parailin L.