CHAPTER XVI.
HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THE SKIN.
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Uses of the Pores of the Skin.~--Many years ago, at a great celebration, a little boy was covered all over with varnish and gold leaf, so as to make him represent an angel.

The little gilded boy looked very pretty for a short time, but soon he became very sick, and in a few hours he was dead.

Can you guess what made him die?
He died because the pores of his skin were stopped up, and the sweat glands could not carry off the poisonous matter from his body.
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Cleanliness.~--Did you ever know of a boy who had his skin varnished?
Not exactly, perhaps; but there are many boys who do not have their skins washed as often as they ought to be, and the sweat and oil and dead scales form a sort of varnish which stops up the little ducts and prevents the air from getting to the skin, almost as much as a coat of varnish would do.
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