If to preserve health be to save medical expenses, without even reckoning upon time and comfort, there is no part of the house-bold arrangement so important to the domestic economist as cheap convenience for personal ablution. For this purpose baths upon a large and expensive scale are by no means necessary; but though temporary or tin baths may be extremely useful upon pressing occasions, it will be found to be finally as cheap, and much more readily convenient, to have a permanent bath constructed, which may be done in any dwelling-house of moderate size, without interfering with other general purposes. As the object of these remarks is not to present essays, but merely useful economic hints, it is unnecessary to expatiate upon the architectural arrangement of the bath, or, more properly speaking, the bathing-place, which may be fitted up for the most retired establishment, differing in size or shape agreeable to the spare room that may be appropriated to it and serving to

! exercise both the fancy and the judg-ment in its preparation. Nor is it particularly necessary to notice the salubrious effects resulting from the bath, beyond the two points of its being so conducive both to health and cleanliness, in keeping up a free circulation of the blood, without any violent muscular exertion, thereby really affording a saving of strength, and producing its effects without any expense either to the body or to the purse.

651. Whoever fits up a bath in a house already built must be guided by circumstances: but it will always be proper to place it as near the kitchen fire-place as possible, because from thence it may be heated, or at least have its temperature preserved by means of hot air through tubes, or by steam prepared by the culinary fire-place, without interfering with its ordinary uses.

652. A small boiler may be erected at a very small expense, in the bath-room, where circumstances do not permit these arrangements. Whenever a bath is wanted at a short warning, to boil the water necessary will always be the shortest mode; but where it is in general daily use, the heating the water by steam will be found the cheapest and most convenient method.

653. As a guide for practice, we may observe it has been proved by experiment that a bath with five feet water at the freezing point, may be raised to the temperature of blood heat, or 96 degrees, by 304 gallons of water turned into steam, at an expense of 501bs. of Newcastle coal: but if the door be kept closed, it will not lose above four degrees of temperature in twenty-four hours, by a daily supply of 31bs. of coal. This is upon a scale of a bath of 5,000 gallons of Water.