The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-02-17
A SAGE'S ADVICE.
Wear Wool and Retain Your Health.
Natures Laws not TO be Violated
with Impwnlty.-The Bible not
a Scientific Treatlse.

Mr.. EDITOR With as little repetition
as possible upon points in my former
communications, wish again to assert
that tits the property of linen to be a
conductor of heat-that it conducts heat
away from an organism covered by it,
rs a natural law. The science of phys
ics proclaims these facts, and natural
philosophy informs us why it is inferior
to wooden for garments in our winter eli
mate, for all persons compelled to ex-
posure.
If, then, it is a natural law, the cor
ollary of the proposition is that the
woolen fabric retains the animal heat
when applied to the surface of the Or
ganism preventing its es;ape into the
colder atmosphere and the linen, when
60 worn, conducts it away. Scientists
depend upon these natural laws, and it
is science that decides the linen and
wooden question; it being truth OF ma
ture, the whole story is told. But il
there is anything left, it is mere sophis-
try; and all the stultiloquence of our
promoter of this noxious innovation
that "woolen is entirely unsuited for
wearing apparel next the skin," only
stultifes himself. 1t is carrying language
to the height of travesty, when in his
rhapsody in describing the properties OF
H., /.t ,,or;oDoa NTH oniaDf;f,c foctsh
when worn as underwear, our conductor
of the Independent" declares "it pre-
serves the natural heat of the body and
all0scs the skim to breathe. There are
many things not dreamt of in our phi
losophy; many discoveries which will
immortaliZe those who make them, and
confer upon the human race advantages
which, as yet, perhaps, We are not in a
condition to appreciate; but natural
laws are an irrefragable fact, and ever
will be immutable and inaccessible to
caprice or outside influence. Hence,
the fad of our editor of the ''Indepen-
dent rests on no scientific foundation,
nor logical thought, and therefore is a
monstrous assumption only. 1t is this
that "overweeningly rules him out OF
court" and not myself.
A mythical legend makes that tabled
monster called Satan, or Devil, appear
to the great French scientist and nat
uralist Cuvier, as he did to Luther, and
exclaim, "I'll eat you'll" Cuvier, did not,
as did Luther, throw at him his inkstand
and depart; he looked at his feet, and
yelled out, "hoofs - then at his head,
exclaiming, ''horns graminivorous 1t
can't be done - Neither can the con-
ductor of the "Wayne Independent
change a conductor of heat into a non
conductor, or rice rerSd it can't be
done no more than a graminivorous
animal can be changed into carnivur.
GUS one. Any discussion which can moi
be brought into unison with results OBJ
tanned by science is worthless and sense
less and a disputant armed with this
fact may defy his Satanic majesty or any
other person.
1t is not true that a conductor of heat
as linen or cotton, worn as undercloth'
ing by residents of our hemisphere, il
our latitude and in the winter months OF
our climate of Wayne county, Pa, af.
fords them so safe a protection from the
weather seventies as woolen material
No I n 1oH Of NofI
tains the fact. l must thank the editor
for "heartily endorsing the point made
in my last article, viz :-"Whoever inter
feres unnaturally by clipping an anima
unseasonably, or by dressing the body Of
a person to conflict with natural laws
should be handed over to the Society fol
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. .
Now, this is in a nutshell, the paRctaD
salieNs of all have been contendine
for, in these communications; and if ht
will correct the spelling of the name o,
the daughter of Esculapius, and poin1
out where / ever wrote that linen un
derwear is somethingnew, 1 should fee
grateful. 1t can't be done
In the year 1913, in locating here as &
physician, found of all ages, many, il
the dead of winter, dressing with only
cotton underclothing, and advised
wooden for the best of reasons and an
pleading for it still.
Regarding his gratuitous slur, viz -
"Our learned friend does not pin hi
faith very strongly to biblical teachings, >
will answer, how does he know? L
is useless and palters with the truth, t.
set up the fgment of a doctrine which
contradicts itself; that dictates mani