Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-01-07
9aaies' Column.
PROPER CLOTHING.


Bazaar who will admit that she is not
properly clothed and in her right mind,
though she may be found in zero wealth
er with no thicker appareling than she
wore during the cool days of fall and
summer; and at the same time she will
perhaps boast that she has never given in
to wearing flannel under-clothing. and
that cotton stockings answer her purpose
year in and year out. She may, how
ever. wear the finest of laces and the
costliest silks. and yet, without her out
fit of under-hannels for the winter,
the early fall, and the changea-
BILE spring of our climate, we shall
deny that she has proper clothing. We
are aware that our women dress more
warmly than their ancestors of fifty
years ago, and that there has been
marked improvement in this respect,
yet the reform has not perfected itself.
We are told that our grandmothers
lived to ripper old age and enjoyed
more robust health than the present
generation. though they did not swathe
themselves with layers of wool, like a
mummy, and were unacquainted with
certain garments that we consider in
dispensable. But perhaps if our pro-
genitors had adopted the custom of
wearing more and warmer clothing, their
posterity would have inherited as tough
constitutions and as firm health. In
this day no one is excusable who allows
herself to go insuficiently clad while
she has the means to provide raiment,
even though she should be obliged to
curtail her luxuries for the purpose, t.
forego certain follies and superfuities.
She is not only wronging herself and
shortening her days by a scanty suppl;
of clothing, but in weakening her own
system by her folly she Injuries her child
no less. There are certain foolish folks
who object to additional underwear be-
cause it increases the size /; who prefer
to pass the season in a semi CONCEALED
state, alternating with the fever of in
fuenza, hugging the stove. and making
bugaboo of fresh air; who ignore thu
fact that genial temperature of thu
surface of the body preserves an equa
circulation, that keeping the extremitie
warm prevents the blood rushing to tn
head and discolering the face, disturb
ing the natural shading of the rose-lea
cheek, and giving the nose a rubican'
hue-that, In brief, to be warmly cla'
insures longer lease of youth AM
beauty. Many of US who really believ
in the regimen of proper clothing hest
tate to make a change till the col
weather has fairly set in. when it is tn
early frosts which gives the creates
shock to the system, following SO 500
after the summers heat; and how fe'
of US pay attention to the alienation
of the summer weather enough to regr
late our toilets to correspond We far
, cy that it is scarcely worth while
vary our attire on account of sea-turr
!, when tomorrow will make amends ft
to-day's chill We think We are grow
J ing tough, when we are in reality catcl
/. ing cold. There are few things in whic
G people imagine they can economic
well as In under clothing; every OF
/, must have her best suit, her Sunda
bonnet, and her much buttoned GLOW,
society demands it Of her (; but who wi
know whether her underwear is wool
\; cotton, of the poorest or of the best
a And she is often foolish enough to pos
J. poue proper clothing till more Col
3 venient season rather than resign blu
10 ton from her gloves or a flower fro
her bonnet.-Harper's Bazaar.