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NOME, ALASKA, NOV. 27, 1915.
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The question of whether frequent
bathing is or is not conducive to good
health and longevity is again creeping
to the fore in the even broadening dis
cussion of the proper methods for keep
ing the human mechanism in good”
working order.
The majority of the health sharps
are more or less in agreement on the
subject at present, by far the greater
number holding that bathing is es
sential to good health while many are
of the opinion that it is not a neces
sity but at the same is a beneficial
practice. But, now comes along Dr.
Elmer Lee, health culturist superior,
with so many letters tacked after his
n .me that he resembles nothing so
much as a hyphenated citizen and out
of his yawning treasure chest of health
wisdom issues a definite pronounce
ment against what he unqualifiedly
terms, “an unnecessary' and even harm
ful practice." Shades of our barbar
ian ancestors. What do you think
about that? Remember, Dr. Lee is a
health authority of eminent degree,
a hygenic oracle of superlative merit.
That's his business. Tet, he is found
issuing a most solemn ban against
one of our most revered Institutions,
the bath, whether it be of the warm,
soapsudsy variety, the shower .spray
or the chilly morning ‘‘tub’’ of our
British cousins. There all wrong he
says and then proceeds to pronounce
this damning denunciation of that most
sacred of: all our household appendages,
the bath tub. "A bath tub is an enemy
in the house * * * begets false
security against disease * * * weak
ens and injures the skin” does sundry
and divers other things in extracting
bodily energy and magnetism and, "en
tails on society a needless and useless
habit.” "Man is an air anumal,” says
the doctor, “not a water beast, and
bathing is therefore simply an acquired I
habit.” I
We have often wondered why it
was that the average small boy La so
decidedly opposed to the maternal
partiality for a clean face and hands.
We remember how. when we were a
shaver ourselves, the sight of a large
sponge and a basin of clean water was
a sight repugnant to our soul. We
remember, also, how we used to envy
the kid who lived around the corner,
whose parents were usually referred
to as "those people," who enjoyed the
sublime pleasure of going all day long
with uncombed hair and with divera
strains of multitudinous boyish adven
tures discoloring his impish counten
ance.
Many times we have paused to won
der why it was that smudge faced
young cub was such an object of at
traction to the clean faced brigade de
spite motherly admonitions about "that
dirty boy" But now good Dr. Lee
has given us some light on the mat
ter, has helped to banish some of our
many speculations and we begin to
realize that our regard for that un
washed kid was animated simply by
the unconscious wish to be like him—
to be able to get good and dirty—as
dirty as we pleased—without fear that
hasty punishment in the shape of a
liberal application of sudsy water
would be certain to follow our reap
pettrance on the domestic hearthstone.
We loved that begrimed chap in the
same degree that we hated the oppo
site of what he represented—cleanli
ness. We, all of us detested with all
the fervor of our being the frequent
applications of soap and water to which
we were subjected at home and our
hearts went out to him in unconscious
respect for his superlative freedom—
for that he was able to escape that
which our youthful and habit free
souls abhorred We reulize now that
we were unconsciously upholding the
dictum of Dr Lee that man has no
natural affiliation with water; thut he
is "not a water beast.” Young as we
were we recognized this fact. Per
haps some surviving taint of our un
washed primeval ancestors whispered
to us that we were simply the unfor
tunate victims of "an acquired habit,"
and "unnecessary practice.” Anyway,
we were absolutely sure of it all the
lime, Just us the average small boy of
otday is sure of it and voices his as
surance when ever the hour of ablu
tion approaches by sneaking off behind
the woodshed in the hope that mother
will forget, That's why we envied
the blissful freedom, the utter disre
gard for dirt, of that boy around the
corner. Since Dr. Lee has enlightened
us we begin to see that all our regard
for that kid, all our hatred of water
was simply the uppea) of primeval in
stinct. it was a harking back to those
days when our prehistoric forbears
toamed the untracked wilderness
blissfully unconscious that wa
ter was good for any thing but drink
ing and who were doubtless well con
,inced that it was otherwise simply a
disagreeable something which made
them cold ajld uncomfortable when
ever it touched their bares kins and
which was therefore to be shunned
whenever possible. Any way, one may
oe sure they never employed tubs as
a household necessity or sported with
not or cold sprays as accessories to
I leulth and long life and they proba
jly got along very well at that. The
doctor is right, all right. We are a
.ong way oft our natural course. Here
we are slaves to a habit, a foolish,
useless habit, according to the learned
doctor's pronouncement. We have been
leluding ourselves that bathing was a
good thing and also that it was in
some sort a necessity when all the
while it was a well ascertained fact
.hat most of our ancestors lived quite j
is long as we are likely to and enjoyed
excellent health in spite of their lack I
of acquaintance with the delights of i
tubbing save when they inadvertantly '
fell In the creek while bringing home 1
cows. Here we have gone on year af
ter year bound by the dictates of an
acquired habit and In the face of ex
cellent testimony that good Queen Bess
and a host of other notables of the
same or earlier periods probably never
took a bath in their lives and lived j
to a good old age at that. It is as
clear as clear can be that we are sim
ply the victims of a habit that is
not a part of ourselves, an exotic some
thing that we have brought Into our
lives and have now become it bond
servants. We don't ned to bathe at
all if the doctor is right and if we
want to live in conformity with the
way we were intended to live, if we
want to be no longer bound by the
exactations of "a needless” habit, we
must forget the admonitions of the
health cranks and abolish the bath tub
from our midst. It is an enemy in the
house, says Dr. Lee, and he had ought
to know.
ALASKA”
NOTES
The Chicogof Mining Company of
Juneau, has been Issued a permit by
the government to build a dam and
power house. The water Is to be tak
en from Rust lake, which empties into
Sister lake, on the west side of Chi
chagof island. The new electric plant
will permit the company to extend
their mining operations.
Fairbanks has started a campaign
to receive all of its mail all of the time.
The Commercial Club has had printed
and is furnishing free copies of a cir
cular letter to be sent by individuals
to all of the newspapers in the states,
setting forth that during the winter
months their publications do not reach
the interior regularly.
Valdez.—The City Express has an
nounced that they will start an auto
excursion service from Valdez to Cop
per Center at once, and that passen
gers will be taken from the coast to
the interior town on the Copper river
for (20 a round trip.
The trip over the Richardson road to
Copper Center is one ol the finest in
Alaska. The road goes through the
coast range at Thompson pass, follows j
the Saitia river to Stewart river, then
Up the Teikhell to its head at Ernes
tine. crossing the divide to the Ton
sina river, und thence across countrj
to Copper Center, a distance of 100
miles from Valdez. »
If the patronage justifies more cars
will be purchased and put on the rA
and regular schedules maintained. ^
John Frame, the Valdez newspaper
man, has announced that lie will agaih
go into the newspaper business in that
town, after having recently been de- |
prived of his outfit by unscrupulous
creditors, lie has already arranged for
ihe purchase of u Job press and some
type which were a part of the plant
if the defunct Cordova Alaskan.
Mr. Frame states that he will start
a weekly paper and will run it along
the same lines as he did before. His
persistence is only another illustration
0 the old saying that "you can’t keep
a good man down.’’
Arthur Bernier, the man who was
sentenced to 99 years in the federal
penitentiary at Fort LeavenworMi,
Kan., by Judge Lyons, in district court
in Fairbanks In 1910, after he had been *
convicted of murder, in asking for
pardon. The murder was committed :
at Tanana in the early spring of 1910,
the victim of Bernier being Charles J.
.Smith. At the same time that he shot
Smith, Bernier also attempted to mur
der Charles Chanquist, who is still a
resident of the lower river town, shoot
ing him through the head.
Bernier's plea for pardon is that
vhisky was responsible for his action
and that he was temporarily insane. :
Many people in Fairbanks are familiar
with the case.
Fairbanks.—The natives of the Tan
ana valley seem to have just been
apprised of the fact that under the
United States land laws, they may
make application for 11»0 acres of lanfl
anywhere in the public domain. Either
that or they are afraid of the encroach
ments of the white man, who they see
day by day making homes in the inte
rior, for a number of applications for
land have been received this month in
the land office. Prior to the first of
this month there had been but two ap
plicants, that of Chief Thomas on Tat
lanika river, and Luke Thomas on
Tanana river, two miles below mouth
of Wood river. The late applications
are by John Thomas on Tanana river,
one-quarter mile above mouth of Wood
1 river; Paul Williams, on Yukon river,
(three miles abqve Tanana, and Tom
Nicolai, on Yukon river, three miles
from Tanana.
These allotments or "Indian home
steads," as they are called by some,
shall be deemed the homestead of the
allotee and his heirs, according to the
land law. They are not taxable, nor
I is the allotee given patent for them.
Larg« aaaortmant of late records re
ceived on the Victoria. Lomen Bros.
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