, 1886-11-21
BATHING IN COLD WEATHER
Keeps tho skin In Fine order-The Uso o
md Sponpes.

Keeps tho Skin In Fine order-The Uso OF
md spongeS.
1t is IN fact more necessary to keep
the skin in fine order over the entire per
son in winter han it is in summer. be-
cause inclination does not prompt any
but trained skins to demand it at this or
a later season of the year. In summer
the bath tub needs no argument, nor
should the sponge bath at any season
for the person who respects his own
flesh. The skin is the second or supple
mentary lungs. 1t discusses the best
choice of water for additions, the whole
subjects of baths and soaps, and recon-
mends timid bathers how to get on
without the shock of n plunge bath.
Except to such radiant beings who
thrive on reaction, any shock by cold
water is bad. 1t is infamous to drop lit
tie children, screaming, shivering little
wretches, into cold water "to harden
them" Their nerves are never har-
dened-only tangled by such perform
ances. Even grown people should use
tepid water in preference to cold, if
comfortable results do not follow the
cold sponging.
Water is n much better conductor of
heat from the body than air is. When
the air stand at n degrees We call it n
warm day, but a bath at n degrees by
the same thermometer is a cold bath for
most persons. BY beginning with a wet
towel bath of water hat causes only n
pleasant consciousness in the skin SAY
at 80 degrees FahrenheiD the circulation
may be so promoted by the vigorous
rubbing and the skin so improved in
ton hat each day the temperature of
the water may be lowered, until the
healthy skin becomes the true safeguard
against cold and catarrah.
A double handful of common salt
thrown into the bathing water after the
cleaning process has been performed isa
beneficial addition. The saline particles
are very penetrating. and no amount of
rubbing will remove them from the
skin, upon which they exert a most use
full, though n very gentle, sti mulating
influence, especially salutary in cases of
sluggish liver. Not only does this act
locally on the skin, increasing its secre-
tons, but also quickens the processes of
nutrition in all the tissues of the body.
A man worn with excessive muscular
labor should take a warm bath, the
calming effects from which resemble
sleep. DIR. Morriss divides invalids (and
well people, into two classes, hose who
have n reserve strength, who thrive OF
cold baths, and those whose feeble func-
tons should be assisted by warm baths.
Feeble functions are not feeble muscles;
the latter in an indolent person derive
strength from the cold bath, which en-
courages to exercise afterwards and this
makes muscle grow.
Thumbless mittens of ordinary Turk
ish toweling are as good rs the more
costly sponges for the luxury of the
daily rub bath" a large Turkish
towel wrung out of either tepid or cold
water, will expedite the bathing process.
and by all mean provide a goodly sized
towel for the dry rub afterward. Turk
ish towels that come the size of crib
sheets are most useful for this, and the
luxury of having two linen bath sheets
in daily use is known to the initiated
few. After either n cold or a warm
plunge bath the immediate covering of
the whole body in a large wrap of linen
or the soft tufted cotton gives n sensa-
ton of luxury that some people never
know.-Clcveland Leader.