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Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10240, 5 June 1909, Page 6 (Supplement)

Do We Wash Too Mucli. —4 On© of the most cherished traditions of the British race, the "cold tub every morning," is mientoilessly criticised by Dr. J. H. Clark© 'in '"Vital Ebononwes; or How to Congerve Your Strength," publisheid recently by Mi- • Fisher Unwin. Dr Olarke contends that in the matter of health we are emslaived by the words and phrases: "The'pores of the skin' i» a phrase at the sKrin© of wHich many feeble folk are sacrificing the lni&tt_ flicker of their energy in the daily morning tub. 'Plenty of fresh air' is another tyrant which, ha» olalmed numberless victims. "I onee 1 lost a. good patient, who wab always ailing 1, 'by cutting: off his daity morningl tub," says 3>r. Clairke. "Be gi-ew strong and put on weight. . . and it is one of his delights to shook his frietadfl by" telling them! hoiwi miany yiefars it is since he had a bath!" Too much soaping and scrulbbing, aidcordingr to Dr dtkrke, removes the lubricating miatterial secreted,, in the glands of the skin to make it soft and supple, and the removal leaves the skin miore "sensitive-to atmospheric ohangas The skin is a solfrcleansing orgain. By sdakinfj the body th:e self-ctteansing cells absorb waiter, &wall up, and rite. Otne ha« only to ruib oneself after a ibath, and they com© off in little rolls, These do themselves dirty. They remove so imiidb. of the proteciting surface that they the dirt ai real ohantie of getting into the skin." Dr. Olarka recommends as a suibstitute [ for a bath iai folded 1 towel, wtetted in the centre, and passed! rapidly nil over the ''body. This will open the }>ore|s jauffi<jien%f without enrtiailling any shock.

The Dutch Baby's Qraclles. The cradle offered for the royal heir fey The Untrue is of round;, trellis like woodwork in white and gilt. The hood is entirely of lacje made- at The Hague Lace Sk>Kool by 34 .laceimakeirß who ha.v© worked twelve thousand hours on it. !Elmibroidered sheets and pillow cases an3T coverlet haVe also been presented. These have a coronet and the initial' W., for the child's name will foe ■tValhelmina. A'ms-terdatal is also offering aj cradle made of rosewood, and white silk curtains.. The Amsterdam' cradle is stately and imposing, but The Hague cradle: is Considered miore closy. A (third cateidler—ithat used for Queen 'Wilhelmiina hersefcf—will, however, be the most used. Ten thousand buttered 'biscuits . : with comforts were placed in 'orange-wlourejlpaper -bag? for distribution to thfs poor of The Hague. Seven ladiies spent' five days in buttering theira. • ■ Adverti«e Tour h"wti«>Bß T * ••' w*T «'Iii»OPHB tO it.—P. T *('• Adre'i-Jiitine i* the cbiof •• Mixr* tradf.— Took*.