Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1885 — Washed Twice in a Lifetime. [ARTICLE]

Washed Twice in a Lifetime.

In Abyssinia there is plenty of water, and the soap grows on trees, but an Ethiopian will tell you without a blush that he is necessarily washed at birth, washes himself on his marriage morn and hopes to be washed after death. When he feels hard and uncomfortable he will ano nt himself with mutton fat till his head and body glistens in the sun. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.— Addir' non. ' ..... •' ■ A talent may he perfected in solitude, a character only in the world.