Show I I Oil as Well as Water for the Skin I N describing the means by which I IN the Hawaiians before contact with civilized peoples brought about the deterioration of this splendid race kept their thelt skins In healthy condition V V. V MacCaughey says in the Scientific Monthly that they not only bathed bathel daily dally in the sea and In fresh water but oiled their bodies with cocoanut anut oil olI 0 e Commenting on this latter practice tIre the Journal of t the e American Medical Association says the effectiveness of ot bathing is well recognized day to-day but we fall falI to to realize the unquestionable able merit ia li the with oil that undoubtedly confer confor a suppleness and pliancy to the tho skin quite contrary contrary con con- to the Iho extreme detergent action of the water bath It is not without hygienic significance that the skin is normally lubricated by a sebaceous secretion which the bath hath tends to remove remove re remove re- re move often io to o a degree no longer compatible with a perfect epidermis |