The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21

fur coat She looked surprised. but 1 realized that with the money she was spending on massage and treatment she could buy a beautiful fur coat. which would accomplish the very same result as well.
 Another thing I sometimes order people 10 po is to cqt down their food bill and spend the extra money on pretty and comfortable clothes. eGt rid -f some of Your old furniture and ornaments and buy yourself good clothes. so you can feel fresh and full of life again.
 Wear white. It's expensive, but 1t gives the best returns in good spirits and heaith If you don't believe me wren l tell you that when you 50 about in a dark suit all winter without having it cleaned you are no more than a filth center, attracting and distributing germs and disease every time you move; just pin a piece of pure white satin or linen on your arm and see what it looks like in a short weeks time. Learn to wash your own clothes. Buy cheaper ones and change them often, do anything that your intelligence suggests, but keep your clothes clean and see how much better you are and how much pleasanter you feel in consequence.
 Warm clothes are worn to conserve heat. We eat food to produce heat which is energy. Therefore, if you wear bet ter and warmer clothes you will not n-ea so much food. We proved this in the schools during the war The children had not enough heat-producing food, so we clothed them more warmly to conserve all that was produced, with satisfactory results.
 T approve of dresses with open necks. It is good to have the throat expcrH1. Tight collars and high chokers are respon- sible for great deal of domestic un- happiness. Men are the chief offenders in this When you see man with a low soft collar and a loose tie he is usually good tempered and amenable to reason.
 As to indecency in dress, I think de- cency is entirely a matter of climate, epoch and nation, Perhaps the reason women have taken to dresse scut to very low in the back is because our day dresses are cut low in the front and we have to do something to show that We are wearing evening clothesl think it
 is very encouraging fact that a doctor can give lecture on dress and never mention the word corset.
 Our modern dress is very sensible ex cept our footwear. American women are far ahead of us in their well-shaped and good-looking shoes. Our women so often have loose ankles and so often run down at heel. American women almost never do this and Australian women walk SUI pcrbly. I do not know the reason.
 English children should wear one pound weight of clothing to every seven pounds of their own weight in winter4 l think the poor often pur many clothes on their children, the rich too few. Some sium bothers sew their children up in all the tight clothes they can find on Oc- tober and never rip them open until March. I have found thirteen garments or one small child
 "A general rule for clothes of all ages is to have the material light enough to see through, and loose enough to drop off. In this way air gets through to the body an dalows our skin, which is the first and most important of our cloth ing to do it's proper work.
 Another rule is to make health clothes so attractive that peopfe wr; wan, to wear them. Look at the jumper and the chemise frock. We rebeled in horror from the red flannel vest and knitted pet tieoat of our Victorian grandmothers. But we wear the knitted jumper and sport skirt upon every occasion. and to the hor- TOT of the fashion makers women are clinging to these with a dogged deter mination that promises to win through despite the commercial disasters which would follow strike on the part of women against the change of fashions every season"