CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 7, 14 November 1887, Page 2

CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS.

In the Prussian Chamber of Deputies Herr Yon Ziedmatm made the horrifying 1 statement that in Posen he met with a burgomaster who was quite unable to remember when ho washed himself last But it is a well known fact (says a H«uu> paper) that a considerable number of Parisian ladies, admired for their beauty, never wash themselves at all. Lace, neck, and shoulders arc carefully wiped each morning' with a dry towel and then rubbecTwidi a lino ointment. They then appear in all the freshness of youth, with tints varying from dazzling white to a deep pink Only once a year generally in autumn —the com yloxion begins to show cracks and wrinkles. Then the beautiful lady disappears for a season.. All visitors are refused admission ; madam© is indisposed. A fortnight later she emerges like a chrysalis, as beautiful us ever. She has undergone a transformation, a kind of moulting process, which is kept a secret from everybody except her husband, who has to pay for ir. to the tune of 2000 frames. Her far famed beauty is the work of die (iii tilleme. a personage quite familiar to English readers who are old enough to remember the case of Madame Rachel.