Stains on the hair are removed by sponging, or, when the coat is very dirty, by the water-brush; the whole being finished off by a linen or flannel cloth.

This done, the mane and foretop should be combed out, passing a wet sponge over them, sponging the mane on both sides, by throwing it back to the midriff, to make it lie smooth.

Baths - 117 The Cold-water Plunge Bath - 118 Sea Bathing - 120 The Shower Bath - 123 Ablution, or Sponging - 125 The Warm Bath - 188 Chap.

The tepid, or cold salt-water shower bath, should be used every morning; but if it cannot be borne, sponging the body withsalt-water must be substituted.

Sponging the whole body also with cold water with bay-salt in it every morning, should be insisted upon, if possible: it preserves cleanliness, and greatly invigorates the health.

In conclusion: if the bath in any shape cannot from circumstances be obtained, then cold saltwater sponging must be used daily, and all the year round, so long as the proper reaction or glow follows its use; but when this is not the case, and this will generally occur, if the child is delicate and the weather cold, tepid vinegar and water, or tepid salt water, must be substituted.

It is to be remedied by using those means that shall invigorate the frame, and promote the child's general health (a daily plunge into the cold bath, or sponging with cold salt water, will be found signally efficacious), and by avoiding the original cause of the distortionnever allowing the child to get upon his feet.

ABLUTION, OR SPONGING.

As a remedy, cold water sponging, and the application of ice and iced water, are often ordered under certain states of disease by the medical attendant, and frequently followed by delightful results.

Cold water sponging is a convenient and grateful method of moderating febrile heat of the surface, provided undoubted powers of reaction be present in the system.

Cold sponging employed daily, and the surface of the body rubbed dry with as rough a flannel as the delicate skin of the child will bear; friction being very useful.

The sponging of the infant's body daily, either with cold or tepid water, must depend upon the season of the year and constitution of the child, as well as upon other circumstances.

Sponging the head with cold water night and morning is almost invariably atttended with great benefit, and may be resorted to in every case without fear; and now and then the use of the warm hip-bath, for several days together, will be ordered by the physician, which, by acting upon the skin, diminishes the determination of blood to the head, and thus forms an important source of relief.

Of the treatment we have here nothing to say, except that the gums must be carefully examined, and scarified if they require it, and the temperature of the head reduced by cold sponging, or the application of a bag of ice when necessary.

Sponging or the shower-bath, with cold water and bay-salt, with considerable friction in drying the body, should be commenced in summer, and employed every morning upon the child's rising from bed.

Ablution, or sponging, 125.

Skin of the infant, importance of its perfect cleanliness, 72. , friction and sponging of, beneficial, 73.

Sponging, 125.

She rose and emptied the remains from her plate into a tin pail, sponging the plate with a piece of bread.

As soon as the Children were able to Walk without holding on, he started them for the Corn-Field, and told them to Pay for the Board that they had been Sponging off of him up to that Time.

When the ransomed natives departed with their families, the Governor had them pursued, reparked, and subjected to a repetition of this sponging process, and again a third time, so admirably did it work.

Always I should think he reacted very quickly to his own physical sensations, and he was, as yet, too young to know that you cannot lay ghosts by the simple brushing of your hair and sponging your face.

"The meaning, my dear madame, is, that Miss Clara Brandon is arrested for debt, and carried off to a sponging-house; and that unless you pay the money, or file bail, she will tomorrow be lodged in jail," replied the unmoved man of law.

[Must be a poor relation sponging on our landlady,pays nothing,so she must stand by the guns and be ready to repel boarders.

" A certain workman, notorious for his sponging proclivities, met a friend one morning, and opened the conversation by saying: "Can ye len' us a match, John?" John having supplied him with the match, the first speaker began to feel his pockets ostentatiously, and then remarked dolefully, "Man, I seem to have left my tobacco pouch at hame.