Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-12-26
IMPRUDENT DRESSING.
Few W omen Know How to Protect Then
selves From Cold.

Few w omen Know How to Protect Them
selves From Cold.
Baltimore News
Ventilation and sanitary dressing
are two things that women do not under
stand,'' said physician yesterday,
thereby opposing the contention OF the
editor OF this page that women know
more about ventilation than men, aud
enough about it to make their homes
healthy and Labitable.
As to dressing properly, however, the
editor isn't so sure of her COX. She
sees young women every day in costumes
that threaten their health, il not their
lives.
1t is not necessary, the physicians
says. to wear many clothes. Ii Ia only
necessary to wear sensible ones. That
the girls of the day do not do. They
bundle their throats in furs, despite the
warning of specialists that suoh treat
ment makes them very susceptible to
tonsilitis and all the other itises, and
dress their feet in way TO make even
| an Esquimau feel cold.
The ubiquitous doctor says that sx-
posed feet and ankles lead to 40 many
| ills that it would take an hour to mem
tion them all. 1t is sufficient to say, to
scare the timid, that appendicitis some
times arisea from thin stockings worn
with low shoes in cold weather; also
rheumatism ard neuralgia, Not that
this announcement will really scare the
readers; for it will not. They have
heard it all before, and, having ESCAPED
with slight ills up to this time, are will
ing to take their chances in the future.
But there comes day when tine
weakened frame cannot longer resist,
and then MademoiselIe has time to re-
greet the mprudences Of her youth. All
that the most virulent Of her critics ask
is that woman dress with some uni
iormity. 1t is not desired that she
render herself unbeautiful with worsted
stockings and dis6guring flannels; but,
on the other hand, il is not enough that
when she goes out that she smother hel
neck and hands in furs, leaving tbs
front Of her heavy Jacket open 30 thai
the chill winter winds can penetrate tC
her chest through her cotton bodice
A costume that one bright woman hal
designed Tor her cold. weather wear con
sists of union suit of silk and wool
1t extends to her feet hut does MOI
reuch to her chin, because this woman
, wears evening dress a great deal, anC
| III thhd Dl hcE lthuuoi ~ pun oh
decollete irooK would, she thinks, bt
suicidal Ona skirt only does she wear
and this is short one of dainty flannel
] She wears isle thread stockings ant
high shoes when she goes out and he
chest is protected by her coat. Her boz
is for ornament only, and she take
J care that it does not hug her throat to-
, closely. She declares that she does no
, feel bungleaome at all, and her com
i plexion is lovely and her health perfect
r She's stylish and as willowly as he
. friends who do not dress as comfortably
Sins of imprudent dressing invariabl
. find the dressee out. This sounds lik
. a very doleful doctrine; but ask tn
, throat specialist and the general prac
titioner and see il they do not subsorib
! to it. 1t may not be until ore Is o.
, and greyheaded that retribution comes
but that is soon enough TO be racke
( with pain and crippled with lumbago.