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sition movement that bids fair to abate the grievance in the course of 

 another generation or two, having already exploded the chief outrages 

 on hygienic and artistic common-sense corsets and the crinoline. 

 Mrs. Abba G. Woolson's " Dress Reform" should be the sartorial text- 

 book of every girl's mother. 



The Turks and Hollanders, though differing so widely in their 

 general mode of life, agree in preferring warm clothes to heated 

 rooms, and when the in-door atmosphere can be made tolerable only 

 by air-tight window-sashes and glowing stoves, it is a curious question 

 whether a warmer dress would not, on the whole, be the lesser evil. 

 It would save fuel, sick-headaches, and constipation, and by adding or 

 removing an extra blouse, d la Normandie, the several occupants of a 

 moderately warmed room might exactly adapt the temperature to 

 their individual feelings. A German author, who admits hardly any 

 excuse for excluding the fresh air from a sitting-room, proposes an 

 ingenious remedy for cold hands the only cogent objection to an 

 open study-window : a box writing-desk, namely, with a double lid, 

 the writing-board resting on top of a box full of hot sand, that can be 

 warmed in a common baking-pan and warranted to retain its heat 

 for five or six hours. A cold garret library was Goethe's favorite 

 refucre from sick-headaches ; and the Chevalier Edelkranz reminds his 

 fur-loving countrymen that, when the difference of temperature be- 

 tween the external air and that within-doors is inconsiderable, it 

 would be useful to " put on an extra coat on returning home, instead 

 of doing it when going out, since the exercise in the open air produces 

 the necessary degree of warmth, which, in the chamber, in a sedentary 

 state, can only be supplied by additional clothing." 



In our climate, however, there are days when a child of the Cau- 

 casian race has urgent need of all the overcoats his shoulders can 

 support, and the natives of northern Michigan have taught their Saxon 

 neighbors some useful lessons in the art of surviving a Lake Superior 

 snow-storm. Experience has made them eschew our common head- 

 gear ; they wear "Mackinaw hoods," a sort of monk's cowl, buttoned 

 to the mantle-collar and covering every part of the face but the eyes 

 and a small space between the mouth and the nostrils ; double woolen 

 mittens, reaching half-way up to the elbow ; baggy trousers, fastened 

 around the ankle, and shoes that admit three or four pairs of worsted 

 stockings. Their particular care seems to be to protect the neck, 

 hands, and feet ; and it might, indeed, be accepted as a general rule 

 that the parts of the body farthest from the heart are most liable to 

 suffer from the effects of a low temperature. All extremities toes, fin- 

 gers, nose, and ears are especially apt to get frost-bitten, but march- 

 ing against a cold wind also produces a peculiarly uncomfortable sen- 

 sation about the neclc, and I can not help thinking that there is some- 

 thing wrong about our fashion of cropping our boys like criminals. 

 A good head of hair may be something more than an ornamental 



