Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — When an Indian Bathes. [ARTICLE]

When an Indian Bathes.

People often wonder why it is that a fleshy Indian is so seldom seen. A scientist has discovered that it is water and not food that makes people fat. Whether this holds good with the noble red man or not is hard to say, but if an Indian were to depend on the water he uses in washing to become fat it is safe to say that he would be the thinnest man under the sun. The only time that an Indian ever gets a bath is when he rides his pony*across a stream or gets tipped out of a boat.— Peck’s Sun.