How then: shall we dress? Grownups may affect sheer silk hose and cobweb blouses at "wearer's risk." Those responsible for dressing jehildren, however, will not wilfully expose them to chill or discomfort by too little clothing, remembering ut the same time that it is quite as easy to impair ai child's health by_ excessive inutiling.
The ideal material for children's underwear is a loosely woven wool, with woollen or merino stockings or socks. If socks are worn, he sure that gaiters or leggings are put on for outdoor wear. "But I don't want gaiters; I'm quite warm," cries the impatient _five-year old, "all the others are waiting for me." Amah will be readily to omit the tedious buttons than his hygienic mother, who wil] have to decide whether his circulation is really equal to keeping him warm. It is not for nothing that dimpled knees rhymes with sneeze, and there are physicians, moreover, that baring the knees to bluster is simply inviting jvheumatism for later year, since there is little chance for the cir-bony joint: Surely no one would wish arthri on a defenceless youngster.
Tur Bearties or Woot.
Wool is particularly favoured for underclothing because, being a slow conductor of heat, it equalizes the surface conditions incident, sudden plunges from warm mrs ito chilly hall or outdoors; it does not absorb perspiration but permits evaporation: it does not clammy when the skin' perepires freely. Some children grow up under the delusion that all winter underwear ig a veritable shirt of Nessus because their mothers have not taken sufficient care to nrceure a light-weight, fine grade of wool. In the case of exceptionally sen: si tive s a silk lining for the union suit may be made.
It is not up-to-date to use the familiar term "catching colds,' but I think T am within my book in saying that unkygien'e clothing, leither too little or too much, is tone of the predisposing factors which render a child susceptible to the germs of coryza, influenza or other form of the."'so-called"' colds There is a mistaken idea that the neck is delicate' and should be swathed in furs, a fallacy which by overheating promptly produces sensitive condition.
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