Image. Three children of a Depression-era migrant worker in Michigan, 1940. Americans were not always so clean and shiny, our teeth the envy of the world. One Brit traveling in the Midwest in 1819 described Americans as “filthy, bordering on the beastly.”[1] He could not get used to “dirty hands, heads, and faces everywhere.” SettlersContinue reading “Cleanliness is Next to Godliness … Sometimes. Ezekiel 24:6,12-13.”