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Show Peasants Are Immersed But Twice in a Life Time New York, March 28. The average RussUn peasant bathes only three limes fiom the cradle to the grave, according to Professor Simon Baruch who is giving a series of lectures on "Water," at Columbia university Tho three momentous occasions which the Russian honors by immersing immers-ing himself- are, the lecturer explained, explain-ed, "when he is born, when he Is married and when he Is laid in his coffin." "The non-bathing Russians,'' he continued, "have their substitute In the sweat bath A Russian peasant if he can get one in no other fasn-Ion, fasn-Ion, will sometimes creep Into the oven after the bread has boon baked. Russia has. however, paid a price of its aversion to water In the tremendous tremen-dous Increase of cholera, a dirt dls-care, dls-care, from 12,000 cases in 1906 to 210.000 last year. 'As a matter of fact, however, the common American idea that bathing opens tho pores of the skin is ungrounded. un-grounded. What it really does Is to keep tho delicate muscles under Ihe skin lu healthy condition and to assist the work of the capillaries, which carry the blood to the surface of the body." |