The Republican journal., 1885-08-13
Saving a Million Lives.

A FUNNY MAN GIVES A BIT OF INFORMATION
WORTH REMEMBERING.
Recently this paper has made discovery by
which the lives of millions of people can be
saved, and other millions can be prevented
from taking cold, and when il is once in opera
ton. and the people realize the benefits deriv-
ed, they will chip in readily for bronze stat
ue of Il red-headed bald man enghtening the
world, so quick it will make his head swim.
Thousands of people take cold every day In the
year, and they don't know what is the reason.
Many of them die of consumption from the
cold thus taken, and that settles them.
All tins can be prevented. Reader, that is,
male reader, did you ever notice, when you
have suit of clothes made. that though you
selected the Warmest woolen goods, and had
them made up regardless of expense, that the
tailor makes the vest with IA back of some thin
slaZy material, like cambric, while he often
pads the front of the vest with cotton batting !?
Dld you ever stop to ask what the back of the
vest was made so thin for: If YOU did YOU
We're told that there was no use of wasting
good cloth for the back of Il vest that is never
seen. If you ask the tailor what he pads the
front of the vest for, lie will answer that it j.,
to protect the lungs and keep you warm. He
may put in 4 Wadding an inch thick in front,
to keep your lungs protected, and YOU will 90
out doors and the cold chlIs will run up your
back. where that cambria vest back is. and
you Will have cold on your lungs too quick.
Why:
You know why, now that YOUR attention has
been called to the matter, and 50 does your
tailor. because in front the lungs are pro-
tecled flve times as much as in the back, by
clothing. ribs, flesh, muscle and fat. In the
back the lungs almost come TO the surface, and
you cover them with cambrlc or silk. Now
that you think of it does it not strike YOU as
foolish to bank up your house in front where
no frost can get in. and leave it unprotected at
the back where frost can get in and not half
try: Does it not look foolish that for hun
dreds of Years taiiors have made vests with
practically no backs, where warmth is most
needed, ANA nobody ever kicked about ii !
W ell, all you have got to do to prevent taking
cold, Is to order your tailor to build the back
of your vest of the same material as the front
OF AT least is warm. and after you have worn
Il vest made in that way one season YOU would
shoot a tailor who would make a vest for YOU
in the old way, aud you viii feel like returning
thanks to The sun for steering You on to the
great scheme.
IL would be just as sensible to buy Il wooden
undtr>hrt with "A back made of mu>quto bar,
as 10 nave Il vest made OF wool, with a back
OF cambrlc. The man who should order a
beaver oNercoat, with the back made of an
Old linen ulster would be looked upon as Il
crank, and yet 1t would be ON the same prin-
clple a> the vests are made now. We could
get this idea patented, and charge a ROYALTY on
all vests made with good wooden backs. and
make fortune of millions of dollars, as every
man VIII wear the new style vests after this
season regardless of price, but what do we
care for paltrS million or two when there l.
Il chance to do good to suffering humanity, and
may be get Il Bartholdi statue? The writer
got this idea about vests in studying over Il
corduroy hunting vest. and has told several
gentlemen, who have had vests made with
good warm bac Ks. and after wearing these