1 64 DRESS FOR CONCEALMENT 



(i) Hysteria, expressed in wanton crime. 



(2) Dipsomania, expressed in tremendous 



debauches following long spells of 

 abstinence. 



(3) Suicide. 



Every range man will remember how these 

 three forms of nervous disorder have wTecked 

 the lives of his friends, and how the best men 

 were taken, not the w^eakhngs. If so much 

 disaster is avoided by wearing colours which 

 protect the body from actinic burning, it seems 

 a reasonable conduct to avoid blue clothing, 

 and to copy the hues — such as dun, bay, or 

 brown, which nature provides to guard the 

 animals. 



Protection from Chills. To absorb sweat, 

 all underwear should be woollen. 



Concealment from Enemies. Man is the 

 only animal whose figure is upright, cutting 

 the lines of the landscape, and therefore con- 

 spicuous at a great distance. A single colour 

 is therefore more easily seen than two blobs 

 of colour such as a khaki shirt and brown 

 trousers, or a bay shirt and dun trousers. As 

 armies paint their guns in broken splashes of 

 colour, men's uniforms should not be whole 

 coloured if they are to blend with the landscape 



The Hat. The Red Indian calls the white 



