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Show I Sounded Praises of 8oap. In a guldo to etlquetto published early In tho last century tho writer says that "soap does not irrltnto tho complexion; some of tho finest com-" com-" plexlons We havo known have been rogularly washed with soap evory day." Tho same authority remarks that "tho dally bath Is now tho rule rather than tho exception, and common senso has triumphed over tho decision that wash. Ing was injurious." And then tho writer has a dig at her great-grandmother, "whoso only nblutlons consisted con-sisted in wotting her cheeks with a cambric handkerchlof dipped in rose water." "In all our directions with ro' gard to tho bath," adds this early Victorian Vic-torian dictator, "it must bo homo In mind thnt wo only refor to those In sound slate of health." |