vy. Water is bad for the hair.
Constant combing with a fine-tooth comb is apt to irritate the scalp and
provoke dandruff, which can be allayed by brushing, shampooing, and the
use of borax and warm water.

Turkish or Russian baths are beneficial now and then, and the vigorous
massage after a thorough steaming is admirable for the skin. A man
should be scrupulously neat about his toilet articles and appliances. In
your bathroom you should have a rack for your coarse and fine towels.
Always place the towel you have used at the side of a stationary or on
the back of a movable tub to dry. See that the soap is removed from your
sponges, and once a fortnight clean them in one quarter of an ounce of
borax dissolved in tepid water. Let them soak for an hour, and squeeze
them out in clean water.

Hairbrushes are washed in a little soda put into a quart of hot water.
The brush must be dipped downward so as not to wet the back. When they
are cleansed they can be rinsed in cold water and stood on their side,
after the water is shaken out, until quite dry.

Nailbrushes must be turned on their sides, after using, so that the
water will not soak in and crack their backs.

A man's toilet articles, whether in silver or wood, should be of one
distinctive style and material. Tooth and nail brushes should never
have silver handles, but hair and clothes brushes with silver backs are
very smart. They should be kept polished with a chamois cloth, and
occasionally a little silver polish or whiting. Your bureau or dressing
table is the place for the hair and clothes brushes, the combs, the
toilet mirror, nail files, nail scissors, and such smaller articles.
Your nail and tooth brushes and soaps go on the wash-hand stand. Your
sponges are best put in a little wire basket at the side of the
wash-hand stand, or the immovable washstand if your room or bathroom has
the latter convenience.

Your bedroom should be ventilated and all the windows opened after you
leave it, and you should have at least one window up during your
sleeping hours. If you have a movable tub see that it is aired each
morning after using.

Always make a change of clothes and of shoes when you come in from a
busy day and from the street. Nothing ruins clothes so much as lounging
about your room in them. And last but not least, as it contains the
essential of all these rules and hints, be always immaculately clean.

CHAPTER IV.

THE CARE OF A BACHELOR'S CLOTHES.