Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1888 — Importance of Personal Cleanliness. [ARTICLE]

Importance of Personal Cleanliness.

Very many people do not keep the skin active and healthy as they ought; the fear of catching cold leads them to neglect to maintain perfect claanliness of the body, and as the functions of the skin are impaired, the work of throwing out waste material, which rightfully belongs to it, f .Us upon the internal organs. They will bear the imposition for a time, and will labor to do the work forced upon them, but, sooner or later, they become weakened by the strain, and then the waste of the system accumulates within the body and assists in depressing the vital forces. Thus, by neglect to keep the skin in a healthy state, many a person becomes dull and sluggish and disinclined to bodily effort; all the organs concerned in life share in tbe disturbance, and become indolent and torpid. The need to perfect cleanliness of the body is, if possible, greater in winter than in summer, a fact which but few appreciate; and to the neglect of this essential may be attributed much of the sickness prevailing in cold weather, which really ought to be the healthiest of the year. —Boston Journal of Health.