Evening star., 1935-07-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E, TRACEWELL.

heavy soaps. light soaps, soaps that will
lather freely and others that require
much work often to little purpose
Given a good article, the right way to
handle it is in order. This is nothing
more nor less than-to handle it.
The hands must be used to work up
the lather. The thicker and higher the
mound of lather the better, for it is
only when its due proportion of water
is worked into the bubbles or cream
that soap can do its best work in carry
ing away germs and dirt.
Perhaps not every one realizes that
modern medicine places heavy stress on
the use of soap.
If it is used to wash away the oil
which causes poison ivy, for instance,
as given off by the plants, little harm
will result. The oil is combined and then
washed away. 1t must be done at once,
of course.
A thorough washing with soap and
hot water is one of the best possible
preliminary treatments of wounds and
cuts.
Surgeons wash the hands many times
and for many minutes before operations
of all types. 1t has been revealed that
certain sorts of germs will stand many
minutes of such washing, so that the
action must be carried on for longer
time in order to do any good.
In comparison with this true surgical
cleanliness, it will be readily realized
how sketchily the average person washes
hands and face.
Yet if he takes the trouble to work
up a real lather, within the scope of
his soap, he will do great deal more
than many a person does in this every
day duty.
The hands must be rubbed back and
forward with the lather between until
the limit of it's water absorption seems
reached. Now the user has but started.
Let him carefully balance such lather
as he has achieved in the left palm,
taking care that none drops off. Then
| let him permit a small amount of water
to fall into the cupped palm OF the right
| hand.
This Immediately is poured slowly onto
the mound of lather. to be further whip
ped into it. The whole operation may
be repeated as many times as the user
| has patience for, but usually he ends
it when great gobS begin to fall of his
| hands.
1t is now high time to apply the
lather to the face, and in doing so atten-
ton must be particularly paid to the eye
sockets and the eyelids, since these are
| the parts ordinarily missed, to which
| missing is due part, at least, of the
ordinary inf1ammations of the eyelids SO
| common.
With the tips of the fingers the lather
must be carefully rubbed along the
exterior edges of the lids so that nothing
! at all is missed. The slight massage
will be beneficial as well as the removal
! of oil and dust which settle on all things
| in this curious world.
Handfuls of water will remove all
soap and this should be done to the eye
sockets first of all, so that the eyes may
be blinked shut and opened time after
! time to permit some water to enter
! No one need fear water in the eyes
If it is good water, such as we have here
The use of alternate handfuls of hot
and then cold water, time after time
is helpful in some cases of every day
irritation. 1t increases circulation and
tends to restore tone. These eye baths,
as part of the daily ablutions, are SO
simple that many persons will overlook
them. That they may be missed, even
when one washes ones face, unless one
thinks about them, is patent on all sides