The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-11-27
m Dressing in Changeable Weather.


Many women commit the grave error
of wearing the same unHned calico
sleeves and the same quantity and
quality of underclothing through sum-
mer's heat and winters cold, in a
climate varying from thirty degrees be-
low to one hundred and twenty degrees
above zero. Even those who wear
sufficient clothing in cold weather often
iniure the health of themselves or chill
dren by the manner in which they dress
in changeab1e weather. Many physi-
clans recommend the wearing of flannel
during the entire year but during the
hot season this is almost intolerable to
some people. As the debilitating eff
fects of great heat are almost as IN
iurious as the arrangements of the cir
culation caused by sudden changes of
temperature, it would seem a wiser
plan to modify the clothing according
to the weather.
One should never change suddenly
from very warm to very thin clothing in
the spring, or Uice Uersa in the autumn,
but should keep a supply of garments
varying in warmth, and make the change
gradually. But when cool days come.
do not be afraid to resume warm gar
ments again for fear of catching cold
when you again lay them off you will
be far more apt to take cold by going
without them. And during the entire
summer light sacque and other extra,
garments should be kept convenient,
SO that they can be easily slipped off or
on during the cool mornings, or at any
change of weather.
Warm clothing should not usually be
exchanged for that which is not so
warm earlier in the day than the middle
| of the forenoon because the system
/ does not attain it's greatest vigor until
that time, and also because the morn
| ings are cooler and damper than any
other part of the day. Some people
think the only proper time for changes
is upon rising in the morning, and So
because the previous day was pleasant
they leave of warm garments and
shiver through a cool, damp spring
morning rather than resume them.
But little children are the greatest
sufferers from the careless manner in
which they are dressed. The mistake
usually made is in putting too much
clothing on their bodies, while their
arms and lower limbs are left too thinly
dressed thus driving the blood to the
internal organs, not only producing
many colds, but frequently that dreaded
disease, summer complaint. Some
| mothers go to the other extreme and
| dress their children TOO warmly Tor
comfort during the hot weather. Never
let children pull off warm wooden stock
ings and go barefoot in the early spring
substitute cotton stockings for awhile
until settled warm weather comes.
Even in midsummer they should resume
shoes and stockings whenever it is cool
and damp.
During the hot days calico slip and
| a pair of thin drawers are sufficient
clothing for a child but an extra apron,
skirt, and shoes and stockings should
always be at hand to slip on when
needed. And do not neglect to put
them on, busy mother, because you,
who are hard at work, do not feel the
chill of the morning and evening air, or
of the cool, iainy day. And do not
| allow your child to suffer by neglectlng
to take them off when it grows hot.
Trouble? d? Yes, but not SO much as to
have sick children.
/ Cotton skirts and stockings are gen
orally sufficient, but on unusually cool
days woolen ones should be substituted
for them.
Children's skirts and drawers should
button on to waists or shoulder straps,
so that they can be taken off without
unfastening the outside dress.-Hedrth
and Home.