HOW TO BATHE WITHOUT A BATH.
No bath-room is required, and there is no need for the ordinary large tin bath, or tubs of water, or any of the usual paraphernalia, often difficult to procure or troublesome to carry about in travelling. The bath is taken in the bather's bedroom, immediately on getting out of bed, and the only requisites are two ordinary bedroom towels and a rough bath towel—the rougher the better. Uncover the upper part of the body, leaving the limbs, from the loins downwards, covered. Apply the rough bath towel to the exposed part of the body, with firm and rapid friction, all over. Take up one of the bedroom towels, previously steeped in a little water in the basin; press it out, so as to avoid dripping, then well rub the whole upper part of the body with the wet towel, passing it over the shoulders and taking the opened-out ends in both hands to well rub the back.
Wring out the towel, and pass it again over the whole trunk for the first dry, after which rub thoroughly all over with the dry towel, and then apply friction with the bath towel until the skin is in one glow, when put on the flannel under-jacket, turning it well up below. Then repeat the whole operation on the lower part of the body.
You may open your window to get an abundant supply of oxygen, and you ought to take a tumbler or two of fresh cold water, in sips, during the operation of dressing, after which go out into the open air for half an hour before breakfast, and you will return with a most uncompromising appetite, and thereafter go through the labours of the day with a buoyancy, ease, and elasticity that will be a new and delightful experience.
Source: HINTS FOR HOUSEHOLDS. (1890, May 9). Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA : 1883 - 1897), p. 4 (SUPPLEMENT TO THE PORT ADELAIDE NEWS).
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