The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-03-29
An UNULEAN PEOPLE.
THE GREAT MASS or HUMANITY
LACKS CLEANLINESS.


There is no immediate danger of r1T
filing a millionaire's grave, and We,
stranger things have happened. Either
You or l may fall heir TO a colossal for.
tune. | don't lose sleep over the pros.
pect myself, o need you, my dear, but
in this world of ups and downs who can
tell what a day may bring forth?
Shall ! tell you a few of the things ]
propose , do with my possible millions:
In the first place, 1 shall build bath
houses and stock them with a per
fumes and towels for humanity at large.
Next to saving the soul comes the care
OF the louy. and most people are fully
as needless of lie one as the other. In
deed to my manner of thinking a sancti-
tied soul in an unwholesome body would
be hardly worth the keeping.
l declare unto you, and if I do not
speak the truth come forth and dispute
me, We who can, that the masses of man.
kind know less about cleanliness than
animals do. Watch the old cat sitting
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 Il more welcome fireside COM
ranion. as well as Il healthier cat and q
more self respecting member of society.
"A bird delights i'll its morning bath more
ostentatiously than in its breakfast. |
nave seen horses at the seashore who rev.
eled in a dip far more than any human
ever did. y dog will not enter your pres
ence IT there is II soil upon lis person
which his w limited ingenuity can re-
move, and the most beatific experience
OF a 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.
and repulsive by reason of lack Of
personal cleanliness. l ride with them. |
! walk by their side, l sit next them.
They dress well. their clothes are of ex-
pensive material and carefully made, |
but they bear about with them an aroma
stale cuticle and closed pores. From
weeks end to weeks end these men and
women do no more than dip their hands
in a little water and rub off their faces
with inadequate wash cloths. If the
natural smoke Of Chicago settles upon
portions OF their. anatomy as are
exposed, they dab it off with hard water
md cheap soap. or they counteract it
with filthy powder rags. They go for
weeks at a time without a change of un-
lerwear to save laundry bills, and they
sleep in the same fiannels that they wear
by day.
A good, thorough bath Is as unknown
20 them as Gods grace to q lost soul. ana
or my part would rather encounter a
hug with aclub. You can dodge "A club,
out you can c escape an odor. Ride for
IN hour in Il of our cars, either cable,
lorse or steam; could anything be worse,
it was a stock transit: And vet
III these unwashed and unwholesome
pride themselves. and often most
Justly. of being good citizens, well edu-
'ated and circumspect. They would re-
ent the idea Of being classed outside the
ircle OF gentlemen and ladies'" They
lever sneeze in your presence without
pardon, nor commit any breach
+ the proprieties without the keenest
OF remorse for the misdeed.
heir crime against society, then, is not
IN active II 1t is merely the result of
neglected education. Their parents
in making them obedient, no
oubt. and polite and well behaved.
hey had them taught to dance and play
he piano and speal. French, but they
to teach them cleanliness.
The poor and uncared for we expect to
ike as we find them, and by means of
faith and good works raise them
} higher levels. But what shall be done
the folks who ought to know enough I
t the laws of hygiene and beauty to
eep clean. but who in fact know as lit I
e as the totally ignorant and the very
Dor! When | get my millions, then l =,
lall erect 1000 lighthouses right here in l
hicago, an ! shall legislate laws that {
lali make cleanliness compulsory. Z
omen shall find it more profitable to =
} to the bathhOuse than to the club, and
EN- shall ind more attraction in the
lysical laundry than in the saloon.
here shall be no possible entree for the Il
lreless keeper of the beautiful body into s
Their saloon. street car or public assem- y
age of any sort. He shall be Stunned a
le a leper. and when his case is pro- d
'unced hopeless there shall be a mod l.
n Molakai fitted up for his habitation, C
at he may trouble the o~lfactories OF the Il
ms and daughters Of earth no more for d
er. n
Another thing that | shall do with nav u
oney VIII be TO prosecute cruel team r,
ers By means Of its powerful potency. :,
re policeman who stands at the corner q
Lake street and Fifth avenue tells me o
since occupying that post he has lost IA
g little faith he ever had in mans &
sssted humanity. 81
Another thingI will do with my money !.
ii be TO provide for the patient, un- L
mplaining poor.
When lget my money, l shall establish
for the poor, not charity halls nor
uses OF correction, but sweet, pure q,
mes, where happiness and plenty shall st
N hands, and peace and rest shall sing W