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THE UGLY-GIRL PAPERS.
CHAPTER XX.
- Sulphur Baths.
- Bleaching Old Faces.
- Experiments in Bathing.
- Cautions.
- Need of Public Baths.
- Their Proper Prices.
- Method of Giving Sulphur Vapor-baths.
- Hot Baths for Hot Weather.
- Russian Baths at Home.
- Improvements Needed in Public Baths.
- What they Should be.
- What they Are.
- The Russian Vapor-bath.
- After-Sensations.
- Brightness and Lightness of Health.
- Reverence for the Physical.
- Influence of Bathing on the Nerves and Passions.
- Necessity of Public Baths.
It is not a little amusing to receive requests for a way to give sulphur vapor-baths to the face alone. Somebody wants a fair complexion, and fancies it may be gained by bleaching the face like an old Leghorn bonnet in a barrel. Aside from the certainty of being choked to death by this method, there is no way of whitening and refining the face by applications to it alone, when the conditions of health are not regarded in other things. Carbolic
