What should be avoided? What affords good bathing?
When should you avoid bathing? How long ought you to remain in the water?
What is the best manner of entering the water? Why?
What should be done after bathing? What should you avoid? Why?
CHAPTER III.
DRINKING.
Many diseases of the body are caused by what we take into our stomachs. You can see, therefore, how important it is that we should know what and how to eat and drink.
TEA, COFFEE, MILK, AND CHOCOLATE.
If I say that tea, coffee, and chocolate are poisonous, and that they shorten life, you will smile and shake your head. Very likely some of you have kind grandmothers who have drunk tea all their lives and still enjoy good health. Perhaps your father is fond of his coffee and feels no ill effects from its use.
No doubt it would be better for all if only water was drunk, but it cannot be said that a temperate use of tea, coffee or chocolate and what are known as temperance drinks, are injurious. Milk is a drink of nature, and therefore excellent, though it does not agree with every person.