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“Wash every day and you’ll die young, my son !” People often said those words,
long ago, of course. Napoleon’s wife had new clothes every month, instead of a bath.
(“It’s quicker,” she always said.) Rich people did not often have a bath. They
washed their hands and faces, but not their bodies.
Many poor people did not wash at all. A young man once said to a doctor: “Soap
and water have never touched my body.” (And the doctor answered, “That’s true.
I know ”)
Why didn’t people wash in those days long ago?
Well, they did not have water in their houses.
They carried water from rivers or from holes in the ground (=wells). Towns-
people bought it from a water-carrier. Sometimes it was expensive, and soap was
always expensive. They drank water, of course, and so they were clean inside. They
did not think about the outside! And this is true: they just did not like a bath.
Modern life is different. We use a lot of soap and water. And we are all quite
clean. However a few people use too much soap, and they often get ill. Who are these
people?
Many young women work as hairdressers. They wash and then “dress” other
women’s hair. That is their job, and they like it. Young hairdressers sometimes
wash thirty heads on a busy day! Their hands are soapy for seven or eight hours,