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 198