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Show o ( HAIL TO GREAT UNWASHEDl Get a Good Crust and You'll Be Healthy, Says Founder of New Aristocracy. V who tako our tub as a duty, our hot bath as a religious rite, and our Turkish cleansing as a sacrament, mny no longer be an aristocracy. Our foundations of hot and cold, soap and i towels aro annulled, Tho founder of ' a new aristocracy Is Sir Almroth , Wright, and tho washed are to be j submerged by the unwashed; th ! cleanly fow representing an old sys tern are to fall before the oncoming black hordo. "As to washing," Sir Almroth says, ' "thero Is a belief that by doing so. people waBh off the microbes. W do J take oft a certain amount ot microbes, 1 but wo also destroy the protective Bkln which is all around our bodfcs like the tiles of a house." Again:' "When ono has a horny hand, no microbes mi-crobes can ever get near the skin. If one has a skin like a tortolso, microbes mi-crobes will never get through. To have a Turkish bath Is to tako away one's horny protection. A tjreat deal of washing Increases the microbes of the skin, so I do not think cleanliness Is to be recommended as a hygienic method." The untubbed heroes of tomorrow may reach heights of efficiency of which we never dreamed, but it docs not follow that their presenco or passing may be more fragrant than that of the generation they superseded. super-seded. London Outlook. |
