The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-03-09
AN UNCLEAN PEOPLE.
THE GREAT MASS OF HUMANITY
LACKS CLEANLINESS.

THE GREAT MASS OF HUMANITY
LACKS CLEANLINESS.
Several Useful and Beneficial ways In
which One Writer Would Spend 81, O00,-
900, Providing She Had Them-Careless-
ness Of Nice Folks.
There is no immediate danger of my
filling millionaire's grave, and yet
stranger things have happened. Either
you or may fall heir to colossal for
tune. / don't lose sleep over the pros
pect myself, nor need you, my dear, but
In this world of ups and downs who can
tell what day may bring forth?
Shall ! tell you a few Of the things !
propose to do with my possible millions?
In the first place, ! shall build bath
houses and stock them with soap, per-
fumes and towels for humanity at large.
Next to saving the soul comes the care
Of the body, and most people are fully
as needless of the one as the other. In
deed to my manner of thinking sancti-
fed soul in an unwholesome body would
be hardly worth the keeping.
I declare unto you, and if / do not
speak the truth come forth and dispute
me, ye who can, that the masses of man
kind know less about cleanliness than
animals do. Watch the old cat sitti &
In the sun or by the corner of the kitchen
fire washing her face and cleaning her
paws. She enters into the thing with a
complete understanding that cleanliness
makes her more welcome freside com
panion, as well as healthier cat and a
more self respecting member of society.
A bird delights In its morning bath more
ostentatiously than in its breakfast.
have seen horses at the seashore who rev.
eled in q "dip" far more than any human
ever did. A dog will not enter your pres
ence If there is any soil upon his person
which his own limited ingenuity eau re-
move, and the most beatifc experience
of pampered poodle Is its perfumed
bath and careful shampoo.
Now, take the case of humans. There
is not a day of my life that business
dealings do not force me into companion
ship with people who are both unwhole.
some and repulsive by reason of lack OF
personal cleanliness. ride with them,
I walk by their side, sit next them.
They dress well, their clothes are of ex-
pensive material and carefully made,
but they bear about with them an aroma
of stale cuticle and closed pores. From
weeks end to weeks end these men and
women do no more than dip their hands
in little water and rub off their faces
with inadequate wash cloths. If the
natural smoke of Chicago settles upon
such portions Of their anatomy as are
exposed, they dab it off with hard water
and cheap soap, or they counterfeit il
with filthy powder rags. They go fol-
weeks at time without change of un
derwear to save laundry bills, and they
sleep in the same fannels that they veal
by day.
A good, thorough bath is as unknown
to them as Gods grace to q lost soul, an6
for my part would rather encounter 6
thug with club. You can dodge club
but you can't escape an odor. Ride fol
an hour in one Of our cars, either cable
horse or steam; could anything be worse
without it was stock transit? And yet
all these unwashed and unwholesomt
people pride themselves, and often mos
justly, of being good citizens, well edu
Gated and circumspect. They would re
sent the idea Of being classed outside thu
circle of gentlemen and ladies'" They
never sneeze in your presence without
begging pardon, nor commit any breach
Of the proprieties without the keenes
anguish Of remorse for the misdeed
Their crime against society, then, is NO
an active one. 1t is merely the result O
a neglected education. Their parents
believed in making them obedient, M
doubt, and polite and well behaved
They had them taught to dance and play
the piano and speak French, but they
forgot to teach them cleanliness.
The poor and uncared for we expect Il
take as we find them, and by means O
prayer, faith and good works raise then
to higher levels. But what shall be don,
for the folks who ought to know enough
of the laws of hygiene and beauty tx
keep clean, but who in fact know as Lit
| tie as the totally ignorant and the very
! poor? When get my millions, then
shall erect 1000 lighthouses right here il
Chicago, and shall legislate laws tina
shall make cleanliness compulsory
Women shall find it more profitable II
| go to the bathhouse than to the club, and
men shall find more attraction in tn.
physical laundry than in the saloon
There shall be no possible entree for tn
careless keeper of the beautiful body int
either saloon. street car or public assem-
blage of any sort. He shall be shunnet
like leper. and when his case is pro
| nounced hopeless there shall be a mod
! err Molakai fitted up for his habitation
! td.t he may trouble the olfactories of tn,
/ sons and daughters Of earth no more for
| ever.
Another thing that shall do with m,
| money VIII be to prosecute cruel team
sters by means of its powerful potency
the policeman who stands at the cornel
| Of Lake street and Fifth avenue tells m,
that since occupying that post he has los
! the little faith he ever had in man.
boosted humanity.
Another thing I will do with my money
viii be to provide for the patient, un
complaining poor.
When Iget my money, Ishan establish
homes for the poor, not charity halls no,
houses of correction, but sweet, pur'
homes, where happiness and plenty shall
Join hands, and peace and rest shall SIM
together like mated birds.-sAmber" Il
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