The Washington herald., 1916-10-15
TWO YEARS WITHOUT
BATH, YET HE'S. CLEAN
Gregoros Zaimelos Doesn't Wash; He
Uses Oil-Palm and Olive.

Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. A-Its all a matter
of where you live. Most Of us good
folks wash occasionally, and then we
think we're clean. But we're not. Al
least SO says Gregoros Zaimelos.
Over in one of our largest West Side
settlements. when one OF 'the great
unwashed" drops in from the stock
yards, he Is greeted with true oriental
hospitality They invite him to take a
bath before he mingles.
The other night Greek was shown into
the baths. The house doctor stepped in.
Astounding! Here was lone of them
that actually was clean when he arrived.
surgicslly clean! His skin glowed.
The doctor asked him, When have you
had a bath?"
Two years ago." was the reply. The
last time one Of you Americans made me
wash to be clean. as you call it."
After the doctor had recovered he
asked the young Greek how he managed
to keep so clean.
I'VE don't wash with soap and water, -
was the answer. I'VE use oil. We rub II
in. We rub the dirt out OF the pores and
work the oil into the skin. You are
never clean. Your American soap just
| flakes over the pores and makes the
skin dry and hard. We bathe, as you
call 1t, with oil-Palm and oive-to make
our skin young. to make US fell good"
He spoke perfect English. His CONVEX
sation showed that he was probably from
one OF the better Grecian families. II
seems that the better class of people in
his country still use Palm and Olive oils
in their baths.
This custom is as old as Egypt. When
the Nile was the scene of imperial splen-
n
ardent devotees Of dress and toilet than
they are today. They spent hours beauti-
! flying their bodies, and Palm and Olive
oils were considered essential in this
mystic rite. For in a contry of such
| extreme dryness II was a problem tc
keep the skin soft and smooth.
Defy Efforts of SUN God.
With the aid Of these two great natura
cleansing agents, Egyptian belles dehet
the efforts of Ra, the Sun God, to work
\ havoc with their beauty.
| But the history of Palm and Olive oil.
does not end with ancient Egypt. The
| LUXURY Loving Greeks quickly discovered
their value. Beauty OF body was a religion
with them. They bathed daily-not mLre
ly to be clean. but to make their skin.
young and to keep the body supple and
youthful.
Later in history the sumptuous mar.
| BILE baths Of the Romans were never with
out their Palm and Olive oils. They wer,
the great original physical culturtsts. An
ointment with oil in bathing was the mos
important part of their culture wher
their legions returned from distant cam,
paigns, the soldiers sought the baths no
merely to be clean, but to be rubbed
with the lather OF palm and olive oils
| This oil was worked into the pores OF tht
| skin. 1t made the surface muscles supple
restored youth to the skin. and most o.
all it revivifed. Palm and olive oils play
ed such part In the lives OF these an.
| cient people, to whom beauty of body
was ALL that It became a part of theil
religion. The olive tree became the sym
Dol Of peace and the olive wreath tht
adornment Of the victorious warrior
! Today in ancient Egypt tourists still
visit the ruins OF Cleopatra's BATH locl tee
on the banks of the Nile about a quarter
of a mile from the famous temple o,
! Luxor
Scattered around tho shores of tn,
Mediterranean wherever the Romans set
tied, tourists still find ruins Of elaborat /,
baths, and marble slabs upon which these
ancient warriors were rubbed with palm
| and olive oils to keep their bodies fit
| Maybe Gregoros is right!
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