What becomes of the fine or minute portions of perspiration which pass from the body?—"Some of these portions are absorbed by the clothing; some pass into and mix with the air around us."
What effect does the perspiration produce on the air and the clothing?—"It soon makes the air unfit to be breathed, and the clothing unfit to be worn."
What is necessary if you would have a healthy skin? [See Formula.]
Why must you wear clean clothing?—"That there may be nothing impure in the clothing for the pores of the skin to absorb."
Why should you breathe pure air?—"Because air purifies the blood, and pure blood is necessary to make a healthy skin."
How does drinking alcoholic liquors hurt the skin?—"It makes the blood impure, and impure blood makes unhealthy skin."
In what other way does drinking these liquors hurt the skin?—"It gives the skin too much work to do."
How does it give it too much work to do?—"It makes more waste substance to pass from it through the pores, in the form of perspiration."
In what other way does drinking alcoholic liquors hurt the skin?—"It makes it a bad color."