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The goveu.meut is right in its eflforta to sup- 

 press any fake remedy that may be put on the 

 market, but it will make a serious mistake if it 

 proceeds against all tobacco remedies on the ground 

 that they are all fakes. The government would do 

 itself honor by instituting research for an efifectual 

 remedy for the tobacco habit. They spend millions 

 ti) lind and adininistw rcrnodies for diseases of hogs, 

 cattle, sheep, dogs, etc. Why not look for a remedy 

 for the tobacco habit which is a disease from which 

 hundreds of men are seeking relief every day? 



Later. The Tobacco Leaf in its March 17 issue. 

 announces that a fraud order has been issued 

 against the Edward J. Woods, Inc., that prohibits 

 the postmaster of New York from delivering mail 

 and paying money orders to that concern. 



It seems from above that Solicitor Lamar 

 may have helped the tobacco people as the 

 notorious Palmer has heljicd the brewei-s or 

 at least tried to help them. Lest it be taken 

 for granted that I favor drugs or medicines 

 to lielp escape the clutclies of Satan, let me 

 point with emphasis to "the Lamb of God 

 that taketh away the sin of the world," 

 and to my closing text. I have been thru 

 the battle and know whereof I speak. 



"From sinking sand. He lifted me, 

 With gentle hand He lifted me ; 

 From darkest night to plains of light, 

 Oh, praise His name I lie lifted me." 



HOW TO TAKE A BATH. 



Some mouths ago I saw a newspaper clip- 

 ping in regard to a divorce recently granted. 

 The good wife complained that her husband 

 had not taken a bath for a whole year, and 

 she could not induce him to "wash up.'' 

 Well, I have heard of more than one iiiaii 

 who had not taken a bath for a whole year, 

 but I have never yet heard of a iromiiii '.v 

 being guilty of any such serious charge. jNIay 

 God bless the women! Whatever they do, 

 they are pretty sure to keep clean and pure 

 and sweet. Well, when I was at Battle Creek 

 I told the good, clean doctor that I not only 

 have some sort of bath all over every day 

 of my life, but that I find it quite nec- 

 essary for me to engage in some outdoor oc- 

 cupation that will bring at least a little 

 sweat or perspiration every day of my life. 

 And sometimes I do not feel real bright and 

 well unless I get this little sweat bath fore- 

 noon and afternoon. The good doctor said 

 that this was exactly the thing to do, and 

 that I was wise in getting away fioni the 

 cold North in order that I miglit have this 

 necessary perspiration nut in tlic open air, 

 every day in the year. 



By the way, in a recent very kind letter 

 editor Collingwood of the Rural New York- 

 er, paid me the following high compliment: 

 It is really a great surprise to me to have you 

 say that you are 81. I am sure that no one would 

 ever dream of such a thing from your letters and 

 from your writings; and, after all, that is about 

 the best test I know for vitality. 



Well, now, I have made a discovery right 

 along the same line; and, like a great part 

 of my discoveries, they are not so very new 

 after all. My discovery is this: Li 



order to have the most perfect bath, you 

 want to get outdoors, say in the harvest 

 field, or something like it, on a very warm 

 day, roll up your sleeves, and go to work 

 until the sweat not only drips from the end 

 of your nose, but so that the perspiration 

 will pour forth from every j)ore in the body. 

 While you are thus dripping wet, take a 

 shower bath or get into a bath-tub. Of 

 course you will want warm water or you 

 may get a chill. The boys on the farm who 

 go in swimming know what I have been try- 

 ing to describe. Sometimes while helping 

 during thrashing time, when they are cov- 

 ered with dirt and sweat, a plunge in some 

 swiinniiag pool near by brings about this 

 exuixMant fending of lieiilth 1 lia\e tiecn try- 

 ing to describe. 



Now, the Battle (Jreek folks have got "one 

 l)etter'' on the above, and they can give 

 you just such a bath any day in the win 

 ter; but, of course, you would not get it out 

 in the open air. Before taking the bath the 

 patient is put in a little round tent, in a 

 warm room of course, with a great lot of 

 electric globes all around him. This little 

 cloth tent is made tight all around, and very 

 soon the sweat begins to pour not only from 

 the end of your nose, but from all over the 

 body. And now comes the good atteiulant. 

 I suppose he must be one of the "fifty doc- 

 tors," and he gives you a good-sized cuj) ol' 

 cold water. He keeps urging you to drink 

 all of it. This big drink of water causes 

 still more sweat, and then he gives you an 

 other cup and urges you to drink that — all 

 of it. I think I drank a full pint, and I 

 never had such a sweat before. It seemed as 

 if the water would pour down my throat 

 (and it was just fun to take it, too), and in 

 a twinkling of time it oozed out of every 

 pore of my body. I was not only getting an 

 external bath, but an internal one, and then 

 I was taken out of the tent and conducted 

 to a tub and scrubbed with soap and water 

 until I was all in a lather from head to foot. 

 And then I began to wonder how he was 

 going to get all the soap clear out of the 

 way. Well, the next part of the program was 

 a shower bath where little jets of warm or 

 hot water struck every portion of my body 

 with sulHcient force to do a most perfect job 

 of washing. After being scrubbed off with 

 dry towels I was pronounced clean, anil 1 

 confess I did find myself nu)st deliciously 

 clean. It was right after that, or soon after, 

 that I rode 200 miles in an automobile in one 

 day; and, altho we passed over some of the 

 worst roads a small part of the way that I 

 ever rode over in my life in an auto, I felt 

 "as spry as a cricket" when I reached 

 home a little after dark. 



Now, in summing up, what I have tried to 

 make plain is this: The very best time in 

 the world to get a perfect bath is when the 

 pores of your body are all wide open and 

 are exuding sweat. If you let that sweat dry 

 on and then try to moisten it up again, say 

 just before you go to bed, you can not get 



