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...almost as raw and hard as they went in. Blue-cheeked children huddle inside the windowless, dirt-floored, one-room hut to escape the biting mountain wind. Within are a bed, two chairs, and a four-inch figure of the Infant Jesus on a homemade altar; magazine pictures of bathing beauties, futbol players and stern-faced priests are tacked indiscriminately around the walls. The house has no water or sanitary facilities; the nearest public bath is six miles away, but Sabino and his wife have not visited it this year. The only sign of civilization that the second biggest...
...same dish as his master. After a man has become "thoroughly familiar with the leash, one end may be hooked to the dog's collar and the other end looped securely around the man's wrist so he cannot get away." As for giving a man a bath, Ford says a dog should jump in the tub himself, with all fours, splashing the man as much as possible, then jump out and shake the water off his coat and on to the man. After that, "run around the yard in circles. By the time he has caught...
...crew and two sick children, Davis decided to head to head for Rapa, a South Sea Island. The twenty-fifth day out, the approached the tiny island, and in a letter to friends, Mrs. Davis said they "nearly went mad. Our first reaction was to wash ourselves, the first bath in 26 days. We drank a toast to the destruction of the Roaring 40's, then promptly collapsed with the sudden reaction to the terrors we had been through...
...wayfarer could be devised-far better today would be a Thermos of hot milk . . . In rescue work, whether in shipwreck or in exposure to cold on land, alcohol should be avoided as a veritable poison. If the rescued persons are brought into a hot room or given a warm bath, some justification for a modest dose of alcohol might be advanced, but certainly not before. Many a life has been needlessly thrown away through the belief that alcohol gives the body heat...
...finds Bonzo, "the world's most educated chimp," enrolled at an institution of higher learning and winning the big football game for his alma mater as a razzle-dazzle quarterback. Bonzo* also caddies on a golf course, brushes his teeth (and then eats the toothpaste), takes a bubble bath and displays the finest of table manners while dining on mashed bananas, banana fritters and banana shortcake...