Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-08-17
THE AUTOMATIC UNDER
SHIRT.

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son has omitted to mention 1.-THE
fancy of men, whether old or young,
gloomily turns to thoughts of under
shirts. 1t is the season when the
question of disearding the thick under
shirt of Winter and putting on the
thinner garment appropriate to warm
weather forces itself upon every mans
attention, and no matter how it may
be answered, the man always has
reason to regret his course.
Most prudent men wear flannel dur
ing the Winter, and when the first
warm day of Spring arrives they find
the flannel an uncomfortable burden.
The impulse to change it for the light
er and cooler merino is very strong,
and S3 per cent. of our male popula-
tion-as is asserted by careful statis-
ticians-yield to it. Now, it is almost
morally certain that hot day in early
Spring will be followed within two or
three days by cold northeast rain
storm. The effect OF this upon the
man who has Changed use the
technical language of learned washer
women-is very disastrous. He finds
himself attacked by pneumonia, rheu-
matism, or any one of half dozen
other serious diseases, and to q great
extent he dies. 1t is only too probable
that the death-rate in this City in April
and May from diseases due directly to
premature change of undershirt is at
least seven in q thousand, and when
we remember that only the male sex
suffers in this way, we gain some idea
of the lawful extent of this undershirt
fatality
There is, however, one man-Prof.
johnson, of Chicago-who has come
to the relief of perishing humanity with
what promises to be the most valuable
invention of the age. This is "John-
sons Automatic Undershirt," gar
ment which, so to speak. changes itself,
and automatically modifies its warmth
in accordance with the state of the
thermometer. The material of which
this garment is made is kept pro-
found secret by the inventor, but it is
of such nature that it expands rapid
ly with heat and contracts with equal
rapidity when exposed to cold. When
the atmosphere is at the temperature of
zero, (Fabrenheit), the Automatic
undershirt" is thick, compact and war
mer than the warmest hanDel AS the
temperature rises the fbres of the fab
ric lengthen, and it becomes more and
more porous. until, at the temperature
of $50, it is mere netting. which ad-
mits of free passage of air and is
cooler than any undershirt that has
ever yet been devised. Thus the wear
er is never tempted to change it on ac-
count of changes in the temperature.
On n warm Spring morning he finds
that his nndershirt is cool and comfort
able, and If snow-storm comes up be-
fore night, he still finds himself appro-
priately clad. The Automatic I'm
dershirt" thus effectually provides
against the dangers inseparable from
discarding or retaining flannel under
shirts, and can hardly fail to save
thousands of valuable lives.
There is but one objection which the
chVIleT Hiuy uldhc W IulS ndtCuicoo
garment, and that is that it will be-
come uncomfortably long as the warm
weather approaches. The inventor has
anticipated this objection, and his 'Au-
tomato Undershirt' is made in sections,
neatly laced together, so that it can be
shortened to any extent and at any
time. To slightly shorten an under
shirt is very different thing from rad
ically changing it, and the fact that
Prof Johnson's ingenious garment can
be shortened at will renders it ideally
perfect
What is the steam engine, or the
telegraph, or any other famous invcn-
ton in comparison with the "Auto-
matte Undershirt ?" That inestimable
garment will bring peace of mind to
millions of men who cannot tell wheth-
or to change their fannels or to cling
to them. 1t will lessen our death-ratc
at least one-half, and Prof Johnson's
name will be famous long after Keely
and Gamgee are forgotten. .-NeD York
Times.