PERFUMES.

Perfumes, if used at all, should be used in the strictest moderation, and be of the most recherche kind.  Musk and patchouli should always be avoided, as, to many people of sensitive temperament, their odor is exceedingly disagreeable.  Cologne water of the best quality is never offensive.

THE BATH.

Cleanliness is the outward sign of inward purity.  Cleanliness of the person is health, and health is beauty.  The bath is consequently a very important means of preserving the health and enhancing the beauty.  It is not to be supposed that we bathe simply to become clean, but because we wish to remain clean.  Cold water refreshes and invigorates, but does not cleanse, and persons who daily use a sponge bath in the morning, should frequently use a warm one, of from ninety-six to one hundred degrees Fahrenheit for cleansing purposes.  When a plunge bath is taken, the safest temperature is from eighty to ninety degrees, which answers the purposes of both cleansing and refreshing.  Soap should be plentifully used, and the fleshbrush applied vigorously, drying with a coarse Turkish towel.  Nothing improves the complexion like the daily use of the fleshbrush, with early rising and exercise in the open air.

In many houses, in large cities, there is a separate bath-room, with hot and cold water, but in smaller places and country houses this convenience is not to be found.  A substitute for the bath-room is a large piece of oil-cloth, which can be laid upon the floor of an ordinary dressing-room.  Upon this may be placed the bath tub or basin, or a person may use it to stand upon while taking a sponge bath.  The various kinds of baths, both hot and cold, are the shower bath, the douche, the hip bath and the sponge bath.

The shower bath can only be endured by the most vigorous constitutions, and therefore cannot be recommended for indiscriminate use.

A douche or hip bath may be taken every morning, with the temperature of the water suited to the endurance of the individual.  In summer a sponge bath may be taken upon retiring.  Once a week a warm bath, at from ninety to one hundred degrees, may be taken, with plenty of soap, in order to thoroughly cleanse the pores of the skin.  Rough towels should be vigorously used after these baths, not only to remove the impurities of the skin but for the beneficial friction which will send a glow over the whole body.  The hair glove or flesh brush may be used to advantage in the bath before the towel is applied.

THE TEETH.

The teeth should be carefully brushed with a hard brush after each meal, and also on retiring at night.  Use the brush so that not only the outside of the teeth becomes white, but the inside also.  After the brush is used plunge it two or three times into a glass of water, then rub it quite dry on a towel.