142 THE HOUSE I LIVE IN. 



should be kept clean by washing, every day 

 we live. And yet how many there are, who 

 do not wash it at all, except perhaps their 

 face and hands ! Such persons are not fit to 

 be entrusted with a habitation so fearfully and 

 wonderfully wrought. In truth, they are not 

 usually so long entrusted with it as others. 

 The great Architect usually turns them out 

 many years earlier than he would, if they took 

 care of it ; and in the case of cholera or malig- 

 nant fever, sometimes thrusts them out with 

 apparent though deserved violence. 



THE HAIR AND NAILS. This is the proper 

 place for saying something about the hair and 

 nails ; for these, though not skin, are closely 

 connected with it, and even fitted into it. The 

 hair appears to be the proper covering for the 

 head, but more pains are necessary to comb it 

 and keep it clean than are commonly used ; 

 and for this and several other reasons, it is apt 

 to become sickly and diseased, and to fall off. 



In some parts of Europe, as among the 

 peasants of Poland and Hungary, who greatly 

 neglect cleanliness, and are addicted to other 



