Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-03-07
THE BENEFITS OF THE BATH
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an hours rest after the bath and y
the ride has been long and hard one
or If the course over the links or the
contests In the tennis court has been
unusually fatiguing. it is worth while
to give half an hour to repose. But
the healthy active woman does not
usually need it unless she has rather
overdone. &s \ ii,
But" hear woman say, 1T may
be all very we'll to talk about taking
time to battle and to rest for the wo-s
man who has been playing golf or
tennis, but it is out of the question
for the woman who rides q wheel. Her
machine has to be cleaned before it
is put away" =ySi. .5.@
Not at all, my dear girl or madam.
In the days before the chainless bi-
cycle came into service this might
have been the case. With the driv-
ing mechanism neatly encased and
amply protected from mud and dust
and even from rain, there is no more
trouble after return from a ride than.
there is in hanging up q racket or
setting the bag Of golf sticks in the
corner. q.
Always following bath there must
be some precautions adopted against
cold. Even the cold spray and the
hard rub have not done everything
and the woman who sits In a draft
when she has just dressed after her
bath runs great risk. This Is especi-
ally the case after exercise, but 1t is
true also when one has taken the
bath without preceding 1t by the
ride, the walk or the game. Some
times one marvels what has become OF
the common sense that was presum-
ably dealt out to all mortals when
they came into this world. p-
IT have such mean headache"
said a woman to me the other day.
1.-THE only way can account for 1t is
that l forgot how soon after dinner
it was last night, and as was tired
1 took a hot bath before going to bed
early. I have felt rather queer all
day., s..%eas = -; s.., "
And she was sensible woman,-old
enough to have known better! Yet
from sheer carelessness she did a
thing which might have. had a fatal
result. Il. ID. ge>... = EEs:$35.3,s,..ss., "a : 7s.
The frequency with which such a
bath as I have described may be taken
is a mooted question. There are
some persons to whom it Is as regu-
lar an every day function, barring i'll
health, as is their breakfast or their
dinner. have known those who
bathed morning and night as WE'LL
a rather foolish thing to do, according
to the doctors. Some persons cannot
stand a plunge bath oftener than
every other day. It is all q matter
of physical. condition. To those. who
have formed the daily bath habit It
is real privation to give it up.
when can I have q bath, Doctor?"
queried woman who. was just emer-
ging from q dangerous illness. TT
seems an age since I was In a tub"
my dear Madam" returned the
physician tartly, Il have known pa
tients as sick as you have been who
have not had soap and water come
near them for six weeks. And You
have really been kept very clean!"
The assurance that one is clean
does not take the place Of the tub and
spray to one who has the habit Of
these. Least Of all can one give itup
when the hard ride. the fercely dis
/ puted game has brought one into 8
perzpiration that causes the whole
being to cry out for tubing. The
woman who does her wheeling o. her
playing later ii the day must deny
herself the. morning bath for the sake
Of the one that win follow exercise.