The starlike camp fires on Round Island were before her, and the incessant wash of the water on its pebbles was company to her.

Dick Wash was her young master.

The lime-wash is the grand sanitary instrument in North Africa.

The by-wash is 6 ft. below the crest, which is about the average difference.

Washing is another expensive article: the servants are all allowed theirs, besides their wages; our own costs us a guinea a week.

Imperfect washing is the frequent cause of bad butter, and in nothing is the skill of the dairy-maid tested more than in this process; moreover, it is one in which cleanliness of habits and person are most necessary.

" Indeed, the washing of hands, as symbolic of purity, was among the ancients a peculiarly religious rite.

This daily washing is a capital stove; for I find all hands say that, when it is once over, they feel like new men.

Personal and household vermin seem to have an instinctive apprehension of the homes that are prepared for them, and flock to the families and dwellings where washing and sweeping are not the paramount law and unfailing habit.

" In the ancient Mysteries the washing of the hands was always an introductory ceremony to the initiation, and, of course, it was used symbolically to indicate the necessity of purity from crime as a qualification of those who sought admission into the sacred rites; and hence on a temple in the Island of Crete this inscription was placed: "Cleanse your feet, wash your hands, and then enter.