The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-28
DEATH IN MANS ATTIRE.
With the Possible Exception of the Col
lar Button, No Article is Safe.

| With the Possible Exception of the Col lar Button, No Article is Safe. Clothes may not make the man, ac- | cording to the old maxim, but accord | ing to a well-known Chicago physician they may unmake him with facility that ought to turn the fool killer green with envy.
 "Go into the big, modern furnishing
 house." said he, and you can scarcely put your finger upon an article of
 wearing apparel that isn't murderously
 menacing or insistently detrimental to
 health In fact, you might arraign all
 clothing with good deal of common
 sense and consistency.
 "In the first place, we breathe through our bodies just as truly as we
 breathe through our nostrils. You may
 prove this by vanishing a mans body;
 not all the work his lungs can do will
 keep him from smothering to death.
 Then, just to the extent that clothing
 interferes with the functions of the
 skin, to that extent it is detrimental
 Among all the murderous forms of
 dress underclothing takes the lead, and
 OL tlllS COtlOIi anu lliCi 6ul pLS
 the chief offenders. The cotton shirt
 especially is vicious thing. When it
 has become damp from precipitation 1t
 Is virtually alright, and draft strik-
 ing it converts it into a cold storage
 lining, which could not be better de- signed for pneumonia. A garment of
 genuine wool takes up this precipitation and the warmth of the body under 1t evaporates the moisture.
 "Flannelette in this category of un- derwear is especially vicious There may be no thread of wool in it, and the careful combing out of the inner cotton flores of the garment makes only still further receptacle for clammy moisture from the body. Chronic colds, sore threats and even consumption may re- suit from the continuance of this kind of undergarment.
 "The ordinary vest, worn by all male kind, is one of the most insidious of murderous garments The vest of winter suit is especially heavy in front and is made of wool; at the back it Is cotton, Farmers satin or perhaps thin satin. Such combination could not better further all lung troubles. Under the shoulder blades mans lungs are much nearer to the surface than they are in front and much more likely to be attacked by compositions that follow cold If men had proper regard for health they would insist that their tail ors make their vests of the same ma terial all the way around.
 "The ordinary silk muffier Is a par ticularly vicious thing. It may keep ones collar clean, but likewise it may send one to a place where collars are not needed. Muffiing the throat at best is certain to advance the possibility of throat and lung affections The muf- fer is something that is easily forgot ten, and for a man who Is used to 1t to go out without it between November 1 and April Is to invite an almost cer- tain infammatory attack in the throat | or lungs Indeer, no matter how care- fully one may seek to drop the thing in least parting cold.
 The macintosh is another horror. | In this climate comparatively warm | rain may follow a period of freezing | weather in almost any winter month. | As I say, it is only comparatively | warmer; the thermometer may register | only fifty degrees, but if the rain is heavy enough the man who has been wearing an ulster that is half an inch | thick puts on mackintosh and goes out to freeze to death. He is likely subject for pneumonia, always. The fact that the rubber rain coat Is water tight is only another of it's evil aspects, IS preventing action of the pores.
 Footwear always has been detri- f mental to the general health. No por- ion of the body Is more exacting in the matter of free pores than the feet yet they are covered often in cheap stockings, colored with poisonous dyes, and, then covered into tight, poiited- oed shoes that squeeze them out of all ;emblance to natural foot. The inside inc of the feet, which should be per- ectly straight, becomes crooked ,round an enlarged joint, the big toe Is turned in and half of the natural func- ions of the feet are strangled. Then when a rubber sandal-or. worse, an lrctic overshoe-is drawn on the foot he work Is complete.
 Some of the brown polishes used on ummer footwear are poisonous, espec- ally when applied to thin leather. Don rohn of Austria died from such poison through thin shoes. Times without number physicians everywhere ave been called upon to treat cases of oot poisoning from the wearing of red tockings.
 "Garters as worn by both men and