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1.--Before leaving home, study your trains, pack trunks the day before, don't forget anything, and avoid hurry and excitement.
2.--Look for rooms quietly, in a clean, quiet street or suburb, and see that the rooms are clean and airy.
3.--Rise early every morning, soap down and tub from head to heel, eat a biscuit, and go for a walk.
4.--Regular hours, regular exercise, regular meals, and regular medicine (if you need it).
6.--Enjoy yourself all you can, but 'ware excitement and fatigue.
6.--Strong men may bathe before breakfast, but the best average time is about three hours after breakfast.
7.--Walk at a moderate pace to the bathing ground, so as to be neither too hot nor too cold, and undress as speedily as possible.
8.--It is better to plunge at once into deep water; don't unless you can swim, however, but after bending down and laving the face and both arms, drop right underneath the first wavelet.
9.--If you can swim, swim and nothing else; if you cannot, you can at least tumble about and keep moving, and also rub your limbs with the hands.
10.--Come out before you have actually ceased to enjoy yourself.
11.--It is better to have your own towel, one at least, and let it be moderately rough.
12.--Rub your face, shoulders, limbs, and body, using moderate friction, and finish drying with a smoother towel.
13.--When quite dry, dress, and it ought not to be at all necessary to dress quickly.
11.--If faintness or sickness comes on, which must be looked upon as quite an accident, lie down for a few minutes.
15.--After dressing, a brisk walk should be taken; and now a lunch biscuit will do you service.
16.--Remember that the glow after the bath is the grand event to be looked for.
17.--If instead of this glow a decided chill takes place, and is not removed by a brisk walk, a small drop of brandy taken along with a biscuit becomes a necessity, or for ladies a gla.s.s of some cordial.
18.--If you are an invalid, try to forget it; if a Hercules or a Webb, forget that.
19.--Don't forget flannel under-clothing if at all delicate.
There are various other kinds of baths which we have not mentioned, but trust we have said enough to prove that the baths in some form--and more especially the Turkish--should be taken constantly by all who value good health and hope for longevity.
