Show PROF BOLIN ON BATHING we bathe chiefly for one of three reasons for cleanliness to quiet our overwrought over wrought nerves to secure a tonic effect it if we bathe only tor for cleansing purposes a moderately warm bath say from 80 to 90 degrees with good soap about twice a week dufft suffices ces generally people do not battle bathe frequently enough to keep clean though on the other hand there are altogether too many persons especially women who erroneously suppose it desirable or even necessary to scrub thin selves es sn in hot water and soap lather once or twice daily this i Is a practice against which a war should be waged man alan Is not an amphibious animal nor should the average person be parboiled or scrub obed with soap till the superficial skin bomes off in little flakes to be rolled up in little rolls by rubbing there seems to lie be a number of people ibo who 1 I ac actually glory or Y I 1 in n being able to toBay say dont you see how dirty I 1 am showing how they can form little dartis darkis looking ro boils roils on their arms but this Is not dirt it Is skin skin that should stay on the body to be cast in duo due time b by natures process we all shed skin cells lit in time but we should not do violence to the skin which is our foremost protective organ too much soap dissolves the tiny layer of oil which every healthy skin should have and by the hot soap baths we dry out the skin we create on our bodies a condition similar to that of claa dandruff druff in the scalp and dandruff by the way can riot not be cured by mere shampooing with soap |