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Show HY0IENI0 BATHING. j Fablle Swimming fool liangeroas I rablle Health. The dangers of the public swimming pool should not be forgotten by those suddenly Interested In the subject of cleanliness among the poor of the cltlns. The proper methods of bathing bath-ing are four: (I) I)y the bath In ocean water at the aeaHhoro. For only very few of the entire people, end for but one-fourth of the year ia this possible. Such bathing, like man; other kinds of bnthlng. Is not for cleansing the body. (2) By the bstb tub with pure water, possible only for the well-to-do, and a limited number In public bath house. (3) lit the apray or rain bath, the sols mottA od advisable In publlo baths, and ee-' perlslly If supported by the benevolent, benevo-lent, by the state, or by city spproi prlstlons. (4) Uy means of eposgwof towel at home, even with only a few 1 gallons of water. Tnls method should 1 be encouraged by hyglenlsts, phrtl-elans phrtl-elans and all thote who would dta- ' crlmlnatlngly help forward the cause of the public health. Tho free swimming swim-ming bath for the vast mnjorlly of our people Is Impossible lo provide If the water shall he pure, and It Is Impos-sllilo Impos-sllilo to keep the water pure when It Is provided. We leave out of the count the not-to-he-sneered-nt fact that unless un-less the bathing is done unclothed, soap and cleanliness are not thought of, and, even at beat, morteaty, thst hurdly-won virtue. Is not enoourngod In public bnthlng. The only Incontestable Incontest-able fact Is thnt the public swimming pool Is a danger to. not a promoter of, the public health. The newspapers, the politicians and the sclahly charitable charit-able are right In their chorti to encourage en-courage cleanliness, but tho mere desire de-sire to do good nowadaya does not prevent pre-vent the flnnl result from showing wasted effort, and, not InfrrquenUjiJ positive evil. Science should ballast our aentlmentillsm, and nowhere more I cerofutly than In socialistic experl- ' ment and fervors. 1'htlndolphla American Am-erican Medicine. |