Fresh Air and Bathing.

Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 8, 23 December 1893, Page 24

Fresh Air and Bathing.

Fresh air in sleeping rooms is a need, as it trebles rest; friction to speed the blood through the veins next the skin, only half working as they should; cleanliness of the most scrupulous sort, as all the secretions alter with age and turn acid or viscid, decomposing quickly and giving rankness to the skin. and clothes. The hot bath, followed by a cool sponge, if agreeable, is the bath for women past youth, and the afternoon rest is much more reviving if a towel wet in "salt and water is laid over chest and abdomen, covered by a dry one.—Shirley Dare.