btu&ets of hot watet to be lugged from the kitchen to the scene of scrubbing and paint - washing operations ; dank and damp cellars to be opened, aired and purified ; curtains and shades to be taken down and put up again ; pictures to be treated the same way; windows to be washed and then polished on both sides until they can stand the inspection of the neighbors ; closet and pantry shelves to be thoroughly scoured and then surprised with a covering of clean paper; stoves to be removed and set aside for the summer a dirty, back-breaking, finger-bruising job; seldom-used dishes to be carefully handed down, like a Supreme Court decision, washed and returned to captivity ; walls to be kalsomined or whitewashed ; meals to be eaten with everybody sitting round like the survivors of a shipwreck on a desert island ; and so on through all the details to the end. I Btlt when it is really and done with !then see the difference. Everything clean and sweet from cellar to garret. Dirt and Disorder arc driven from the field, and th€ I house is in good shape for I months to come. Now there is another house which should be kept clean -I namely, the body. I mean clean inside ; for that is vastly more important than outside cleanliness. The latter is nice and useful, and we are all supposed to look after it out of mere self-respect; but it is the inside that needs attention, because it is never seen and thus gets neglected. Bear in mind that nearly all our complaints and diseases are caused by dirt inside the body. This may sound a bit queer to some of you, yet it is true all the same. " Why, I never eat or drink anything unclean," you say. One moment, now ; let us reason together. The food on your plate is clean. Very well. When it gets on your clothes by accidentthen Por a sore back use a Seigel's Plaster*