D.—Does she take her regular baths?
M.—No; she won’t bathe hardly ever, and as for taking an injection, she would die first.
P.—No, mother; I do bathe two or three times a week; but then it chills me and makes me tremble so, I don’t get over it all day.
D.—But don’t chill yourself, use the water milder; but take your bath every morning, or at least some time during the day. You cannot be as clean as you should be in a dusty city like this, unless you wash the body every day.
M.—The rest of us take a cold bath every morning, and it does us a great deal of good; we would not do without it on any account.
D.—How much does your daughter walk every day?
P.—Walk! why! mother won’t let me walk. I only go to school and come back, that’s all.
D.—You only go to school and back. Let’s see how far that is; about a quarter of a mile there, and a quarter of a mile back. Then you walk a half mile each day.
M.—She sometimes goes up and down stairs dusting off the furniture in the house.
D.—That is all very good, so far as it goes. Does she ever make bread?