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Show oo THE DAILY TUB It would be wrong to prescribe hot baths for all the world of women, for there are undoubtedly conditions when they would bo harmful". But daily tubbing in water of some temperature tem-perature or other Is required in hot weather for looks and health, and. if tho heart Is in good condition, the benefits of the hot tub are undeniable. undeni-able. So the long-dread beauties of ancient Greece and Rome kept themselves them-selves fnir, and so the beauty of to- uay uuiius up uer iuuks iviich aim. linds they are beginning to wane with time or feered life. Every week women wo-men anxious for their looks crowd the Turkish bath, boiling and steaming away complexion hurts, rejuvenating muscles, lightening their bodies of su-ptrtlnous su-ptrtlnous flesh, soothing their nerves. And If they are usud to such bat.hs or to some other preferred kind, the BB S 3BV.J IWmiW Hi i i I feel as fit as race horses for a week f 1 afterward. j Some medical facts concerning the ( usual effects to the hot or cold bath gie this Illuminating information; The hot bath facilitates and stlmu- I jf lates the natural combustion processes f J of the body; the cold bath, to produce " the same results, lavishes just four I times the same amount of energy. The S cold bath Is not sufficiently cleans- ing for the health of the skin, aud j when there is a predisposition to skin I troubles the chilly wator tends to in- I crease them. The process called 'hard-enings," 'hard-enings," which consists in submitting one's system to the shock of cold ; plunges, is thought, too, the worst J thing In the world for any but the most vlgoious constitutions. I |