CONTRAST IN CLEANLINESS.
THE WEIX-BATHED JAP.
LONDON, June 21. The conference of the Royal Sanitary Institute discussed baths in working men's homes. Colonel F. E. Fremantle, M.P., contrasted the cleanliness of the Japanese with the habits of Western workpeople. He attributed the superiority of the Japanese peasants in this respect to the use of the wooflen pillar bath. He said that the vertical bath had a tonic effect, and ■was very cleansing. It also required much less hot water, and was, therefore, more economical than the Western type of bath.
Dr. Watts said that it was widely believed by miners in Lancashire that if they had a bath it was not wise to wash the back. There was a deep-rooted impression that washing weakened the back.
Professor ColHs incidentally referred to the English He said that English people complained of the weather, yet it was the weather that made Britons what they were. If they had the weather they prayed for they would degenerate to a third-class Power.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 22 June 1923, Page 5
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