Of course, the same rule applies to the routine concerning the teeth, facial ablutions, etc. Nature is stored habit, and she feels outraged when her proprieties are disregarded. Let us pray, therefore, that the habit of cleanliness may become contagious! Now, the parallel between external and internal cleanliness is quite obvious. Those whose bowels move but once in two or three days do not realize how foul they are. Others have a scant evacuation once in twenty-four hours, and they imagine that they are as clean as those that take an external bath once a week think themselves to be. Still others have two stools daily, and they feel as clean internally as those that take three external baths weekly. And, finally, there are a few who, defecating thrice daily, feel quite as clean as does the most persistent external bather. Thus we see that cleanliness, external and internal, is a habit, a new nature, attended with exquisite comfort and pleasure--a quality that may lead to the goal of divine purity in realizing the joys of hydropathy. The wild woodland flower grew and blossomed without attention, attracting but little interest. After, however, the florist has cultivated it to the high stage of development in which we find it to-day, with its stalk, stem, leaf, and fragrant petals displaying their marvelous symmetry and beauty, we begin to appreciate the value of labor, pains, cultivation. In like manner, it is our imperative duty to give proper care to every requisite detail in the transformation of our body into a human flower of health, grace, joy, and harmony. The great majority of those that do me the honor to read what I have to say on internal and external cleanliness will, doubtless, not agree with me as to the frequency of the ablutions in twenty-four hours. Yet I have a suspicion that if my objectors were to try an external and an internal bath, on both rising and retiring, they would soon consider the practice too delightful to be foregone; they would soon develop more sweetness of character and be more particular as to the purity of their nether garments, and, finally, would seem ensphered by an atmosphere peopled with angels. My proposition is this: First make a man clean, internally and externally, and thus you may make him good; after you have made him good you can make him healthy in both body and mind; after you have made him healthy you can make him full of joy.