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dinner, who told me that some months ago, when nearly crippled, 

 he was advised by Dr. Ringer, the celebrated medical writer, who 

 makes the treatment of rheumatism a special study, to adopt the 

 all-wool clothing, and that in 48 hours he was half cured, the cure 

 having been completed since. I owed my own adoption of the 

 system to the advice of another eminent London physician whom 

 I consulted for lumbago a legacy of youthful indiscretions in 

 the wading line and having experienced so much benefit myself 

 I am glad to have the opportunity of recommending it to my 

 fellow sportsmen. In an article in the " Spectator" of 13 Nov., 

 1886, on a recent book of mine, 'The Sporting Fish of Great 

 Britain,' in which I advocate wool clothing, the reviewer con- 

 cludes : 



" As we are writing for the benefit of anglers we will add our testimony to 

 that of Mr. Cholraondeley-Pennell in favour of the woollen clothing supplied 

 by the "Jaeger Sanitary Clothing Company." We have tested it on Mr. 

 Pennell's recommendation, and we are well satisfied with the result." 



Another sportsman writes to the Fishing Gazette (4 Dec., 

 1886) : 



" In my fishing suit I follow out Dr. Jaeger's sanitary woollen system, and 

 have nothing but woollen clothing, and no linings or other portions of my gar- 

 ments are either cotton or linen. The result is a uniform temperature, one 

 neither getting oppressively hot nor miserably cold ; and having, in addition, 

 the cloth waterproofed to begin with, I can be out for a day without ill effects." 



The most charming of under garments for comfort is the Jaeger 

 combined drawers and under-waistcoat in one, which entirely does 

 away with all tightening in, tying, or buttoning round the waist, 

 and also with the necessity for wearing shirts of any kind. I also 

 find their patent combination outer garment Norfolk jacket and 

 knickerbockers in one (a natural complement to the first) a great 

 luxury for all sporting purposes. The " combination " part of the 

 business of course gets rid entirely of braces those most un- 

 mechanical of trouser-suspenders and inconvenient of appendages 

 the absence of which, and consequent complete freedom of shoulder- 

 play, I find to be a great advantage in shooting ; and as I have been 



