2139. Even our own feelings are sufficient proof of the necessity of cleanliness. How refreshed, how cheerful and agreeable does one feel on being shaved, washed and dressed; especially when these have been long neglected.
2140. Most people esteem cleanliness; and even those who do not practice it themselves, often admire it in others.
2141. Superior cleanliness sooner attracts our regard than even finery itself, and often gains esteem where the other fails.
2142. A clean, fresh, and well-ordered house exercises over its inmates a moral no less than a physical influence, and has a direct tendency to make the members of a family sober, peaceable, and considerate of the feelings and happiness of each other; nor is it difficult to trace a connection between habitual feeling of this sort and the formation of habits of respect for property, for the laws in general, and even for those higher duties and obligations the observance of which no laws can enforce.
PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS.
2143. The following regulations should be engraved on the memories of all:—