Cleanliness a Modern Virtue.
The English upper classes arc clean, but cleanliness of any high degree is a modern virtue amoug them. It is an invention of the Nineteenth century. * * * Men and women born at tlie close of the Eighteenth century did at French people do to-day ; they took a warm bath occasionally for cleanliness, an i they took shower-baths when they were prescribed by the physician for health, anu they bathed in summer seas for pleasure, but they did not wash themselves all over every morning. However, the new custom took deep root in England, because it became one of the signs of class. It was adopted as one of the habits of a gentleman.—Pail Mall Budget.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 934, 24 January 1890, Page 4
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118Cleanliness a Modern Virtue. New Zealand Mail, Issue 934, 24 January 1890, Page 4
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