Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — Keep Clean. [ARTICLE]

Keep Clean.

An old physician, being once appealed to for some general, comprehensive rule for the preservation of good health, replied • ‘Keep clean. 1 ' Cleanliness, from a medical point of view, generally means the absence of noxious germs. The laity generally comprehend in the term freedom from foreign substances, while the psychologist and moralist have reference to the purity of the mind and soul, would make the individual not only free from material pollutions, but would inspire him with a sense of cleanliness, a feeling of purity that would cleanse life and glorify the consciousness of living. There is a meaning in that word “clean” that penetrates beyond things seen, and touches the mental and spiritual nature of humanity. Cleanliness in a material sense may not abhor dissipation and debauches which oppress life with a sense of impurity, vitiating the sources of health and impairing its enjoyment. “Keep clean” is an admonition carrying with it an inspiration which not only invigorates life but m ikes it enjoyable and beautiful. Cleanliness brings not only comfort and health, but it adorns living, gives existence a charm, imparts consciousness of life, real enjoyment, thought and feeling of existence, the purpose and sanctity of living. There is a world of meaning in the two words “keep clean.” The physician, the psychologist and the moralist united in that one advice would give to humanity a law of health, the observance of which would not only purify physical existence, but would inspire a consciousness of the enjoyment of life and animate it with its hopes, purposes and. destiny.-—Sanitary.News*.