My dear girls, I want to speak to you very plainly about baths.
The clearness of the mind, the brightness of the spirits, the beauty
of the skin,--in one word, the purity of the whole system, depends
upon the free escape of the worn-out matter. You all know about this
economy of nature.
Look at this dish of fruit,--grapes, peaches, pears; how beautiful,
how fragrant, how delicious. How lusciously they melt in the mouth!
Transfer them to the stomach. If we could watch the interior
processes, we should find, in a few hours, these exquisite fruits
changed into filthy, poisonous liquids and gases. How shall
we get rid of this stuff? The most simple avenue of escape is found
in millions of small holes through the skin. Out of these the effete,
poisonous matter passes away.