Hints For The Bath

We "take cold" through the skin, it should be reraembered, as we also breathe through it, throwing off superlluous heat - whioh becomes fever when perspiration is suppressed - and also semling oft' waste product. Persons who hayo any tendency to pulmonary difloases sliould make their skins active. A doublé bandfnl of cominon salt thrown into the bathing water after the eleaning process has been performud is a beneficial addition. The saline partióles are verv penetrating, and no amouiit of rubbing will remove thom trom tne siciu, upon which they exert a most nseful, though a gentle, stiraulatinj; inflaeuce, espeeially salutary in cases of slugsish liver. "Not only does this act locally on the skin, increasing its secretions. but also increases the processes of nutntiön in all the tissues of the body. Thuinbless tnitlens of ordinar.v Turkisli toweling are as good as the most cosiy spongos for .the luxury of tbe daüy "rui) bath." A large ïurkish towel, wrung out in either tepid or cold water, will expedita the biithn process; and by all means provide a goodly sized towel for the dry rub afterward. ïurkish towels that come the size of crib sheets are the most useful for this, and the luxury of keep]nx Iïïii lineo buth sheets in daily use is kixjwn to the initiated few. After either a cold or a warm plunge bath ihe ttnrnediate covering of the whole holv in a large wrap of linen or the so.'i tnlted cotton gives the sensation o luxury that some puople never know. 'Xcw Orleanx Picayune.