Show the best disinfectant what is the best disinfectant asked an anxious mother of a very prominent physician cleanliness madam and fresh air he replied promptly and here is another example of the same land Is it not odd that your children should havo had so few contagious dis eases 1 said a friend to a woman of fashion whose largo family had been angularly free from illness do yon know I 1 really think it is because their english governess keeps them so well scrubbed was the reply she has a theory that it destroys germs and the children are washed and brushed whenever they come in I 1 really believe she is right and at all events it has given them rosy healthy skins certain it is in any case that the two fundamental principles of fresh air and fresh water are the alpha and omega of hygiene and moreover it is also unhappily true that the neglect of these essentials is not confine dby any means to the poorer classes few comparatively seriously consider that the proper drainage of the body by the pores is as necessary to the well being of our earthly tabernacle as sanitary plumbing is for our houses dr brown of edinburgh in his lectures to workingmen on health tells them first and foremost consider your skin take great care of it for on its health a great deal depends keep it clean keep it warm keep it dry give it air you should take time every morning to wash not only your face but your throat and breast with cold water and rub yourself quite dry with a hard towel till you glow all over and on every saturday night you must manage to give a regular scrubbing of your whole body of course he was speaking to workingmen to whom the daily tub was an impossibility but even in these latter days when dame fashion has decreed that is necessary it is by no means as general a custom as ono would suppose new york tribune |