ke a net-work of blood-vessels and
nerves. My true skin is covered with a jelly-like substance which gives
color to my skin.

5. My outside skin is not the same thickness over my whole body. In some
parts, as on the palms of my hands and the soles of my feet, it is very
thick and tough.

6. If my outside skin be destroyed, it will grow again; if the jelly-like
substance be destroyed, it will re-appear; but if my true skin be
destroyed, it will never be perfectly renewed.

7. More than half of the waste substance of my body passes from it through
the pores of the skin, in the form of perspiration.

8. If I would have a healthy skin,
I must perspire freely all the time,
I must keep my body clean,
I must wear clean clothing,
I must breathe pure air,
and live in the sunlight.

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QUESTIONS FOR THE FORMULA.

1. Where is your skin?

2. Tell about the skin.

3. How many skins have you?

4. Tell about the true skin.

5. What difference is there in the thickness of your outside skin?

6. What happens if the different skins be destroyed?

7. What passes through the pores of the skin?

8. What is necessary if you would have a healthy skin?

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DIRECTIONS FOR BATHING.

Bathe the whole body at least twice every week. Do not bathe when tired or
after a hearty meal. After bathing _rub well_ with a coarse towel.

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QUESTIONS ON THE SKIN.

Of what use is the skin?--"It covers the muscles of the body."

What can you tell about it?--"It is flexible, elastic, porous, and
absorbent."

Why do you say it is flexible?--"Because it is easily bent."

Why do you say it is porous?--"Because it is full of little holes, or
pores."

Why do you say it is elastic?--"Because it will spring back after it is
stretched, squeezed, twisted, or bent."

Why do you say it is absorbent?--"Because it will soak up liquids."

How many skins have you?--"Two; an outside skin, and an inner skin."

Which is the true skin?--"The inner skin."

Of what is the inner skin composed?--"Of blood-vessels and nerves."

How do you know that the outer skin has no blood-vessels?--"Because if I
put a pin through the outer skin the blood does not flow out, as it would
if I had cut a blood-vessel."

How do you know the outer skin has no nerves?--"Because if I put a pin
through my outer skin it does not make