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 I have not a grain of powder left, and the king would doubtless carry his cruelty to the extent of not allowing me any more."

The bath had probably more to do with it than the powder, for think a moment what a bath does. Do you know why of all parts of the body the face is most subject to spots, pimples, and similar eruptions? You probably think it is simply the aggravating way of matters in general. No such thing. It is because the face is washed oftener, the pores are kept open, and the circulation stimulated by the rubbing, so that the effete humors in the blood find there a readier exit, and consequently crowd thither from all parts of the body, giving the skin there too much to do. Wash and rub daily all parts of the surface, and the secretions will be equally distributed, and no one part overtasked.

Many things have been suggested besides water for bathing purposes. There was Prince Jerome Bonaparte, who took a bath daily, the spendthrift, in wine, and that wine champagne. Even during the fearful Russian campaign he did not intermit, or but a very short time, this unheard-of luxury. Whether it had anything to do with preserving him to the age of seventy-six, we do not know.

The juices of certain fruits, especially raspberries and strawberries, have been lauded as sovereign washes for