. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . Be that as itmay, I know the fact, which is that these Indians, menas well as women, have hair, long, black, glossy,reaching down to their waists, and they attribute itshealthfulness to the regular use of the mud-pack andrub. Now, while we may not care to pack the hair inmud, we can certainly utilize the idea. I have doneso for years. I often give my scalp and hair a mudbath, and it is both agreeable and exhilarating, and Ihad the assurance a few months ago from one of theleading scalp specialists of the Eas
. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . Be that as itmay, I know the fact, which is that these Indians, menas well as women, have hair, long, black, glossy,reaching down to their waists, and they attribute itshealthfulness to the regular use of the mud-pack andrub. Now, while we may not care to pack the hair inmud, we can certainly utilize the idea. I have doneso for years. I often give my scalp and hair a mudbath, and it is both agreeable and exhilarating, and Ihad the assurance a few months ago from one of theleading scalp specialists of the East that my scalp wasin an absolutely healthful condition — one of the very 171 THE INDIAN AND SOME LI XIRIES few found in sucli condition in tlie large eastern metrop-olis. The Indian also uses mud — and by this I mean theclear, pure, uncontaminated earth and sandy mixturesfound in the rivers of the desert west — for is little doubt but that he learned this from theanimals. ^Yho has not seen a dog, after a fight inwhich he got worsted, run and throw himself into a. A MOHAVE IXDIAX WHOSE HAIR AND SCALP HAVE BEEN CLEANED WITH MUD. mud puddle ? Many years ago — about twenty — Iread an account of a battle between a wildcat and adog, and the writer, who saw the conflict, told how thedog went and bathed himself in mud thereafter. Thebrief sketch made such an impression on me that Iknew just where to find it, and I have hunted it up,and am now going to copy it for the benefit of myreaders. It will help explain why the Indian does the 172 THE INDIAN AND SOME LUXURIES same thing. He has observed the animals bathing inthe mud, when wounded, as this dog did. The dog has won the battle; but he has got someugly scars along his sides and flank. Observe, thatoverheated as he is, he does not rush into that clearstream. He takes his bath in that shallow spring witha soft mud bottom. Note how he plasters himself,laying the wounded side underneath, and then sittingdown on hi
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