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THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
to do good service in such a skirt, unless the color be too 
delicate. 
A jacket made of ribbed silk, woven so that the figure 
shapes it, is a very luxurious garment to wear under 
cloaks in the coldest weather ; these are quite expensive, 
ranging in prices from fifteen to twenty dollars, but 
those made in wool are within the reach of all and look 
very nicely when made of black. 
For ladies who are very sensitive to cold there are per¬ 
forated buckskin garments, though these are not con¬ 
sidered as wholesome as common all-wool red flannel, 
which can be made up at home from some of the numer¬ 
ous patterns for princess underwear. One of the best 
arrangements for children's undergarments is the combi¬ 
nation vest and drawers of knitted merino. It is said 
that warm under-clothing for children is a recent inven¬ 
tion, and that mothers take more pains to provide a gay 
outside than warmth next to the skin, and leave their 
little ones exposed by short sleeves and skirts to the 
changes in the temperature, which, instead of hardening 
them, undermines their constitutions and sometimes 
proves fatal. You can see by the faces of the children 
and young girls, when they are not warmly enough clad, 
although they do not own it themselves. The want of 
smoothness and moisture in the skin, the narrow chest 
and dull eyes, all show that there is not enough warmth 
in the blood to keep up vitality. A recent writer on this 
subject says: 
“ The hygiene of clothing is as yet little understood, 
hut the time is approaching when it will be, and when 
we shall know that texture of a material may either 
make it a bad or good heat conductor, and consequently, 
a fit or unfit substance to wear in Winter weather. Noth¬ 
ing is for children more necessary than that the trunk 
of the body should be well protected; the arms, and legs 
from the knees downward, will be warm if the trunk of 
the body is thoroughly covered and warmed. There is 
no necessity -to have ugly clothing; on the contrary, 
these knitted garments can be made of the prettiest col-, 
ore and of nice clinging shapes. You may see numbers 
of young girls in cars dressed insufficiently. By their 
appearance you can that it is not through the 
want of means, but from fancy. The thin scanty skirt 
and the light jacket show that the season's need is not 
thought of. There is always a painful expression on the 
faces of these girls; there is no ease in their movements, 
and they sit shivering in corners, not able to draw them¬ 
selves up, but bending their heads down and throwing 
their arms forward. The doctor will have a long bill 
for them; ill-health will follow them through life, 
and maybe they will find an early grave. See with what 
easy grace a well-clad woman, girl, or child bears the 
wintry weather and freely breathes the exhilarating air’ 1 
How they enjoy it, and how, instead of shivering with 
cold, their blood is warmed and bounds in their veins, 
tingling their cheeks with a beaut iful faint red, and not 
discoloring then - lips with that bluish color which be¬ 
speaks of defective circulation ! Three layers of cloth¬ 
ing are needed in Winter, and if these are to carry out 
a thorough heating system, they should be of different 
textures. It is almost a crime to allow children and 
young girls insufficiently dressed to go out from rooms, 
kept far too hot, into an atmosphere which must be a 
sudden and severe shock to them.” C. 
Lay a Fainting Person Down. 
It is surprising how everybody rushes at a fainting 
person, and strives to raise him up, and especiaUy to 
keep his head erect. There must be an instinctive ap¬ 
prehension that if a person seized with a fainting or 
other fit fall into the recumbent position, death is more 
imminent. I must have driven a mile to-day while a 
lady fainting was held upright. I found her pulseless, 
white, and apparently dying, and I believe that if I had 
delayed ten minutes longer that she would really have 
died. I laid lier head down on a lower level than Jper 
body, and immediately color returned to her lips and 
cheeks, and she became conscious. To the excited group 
of friends I said: Always remember this fact, namely: 
fainting is caused by a want of blood in the brain; the 
heart ceases to act with sufficient force to send the usual 
amount of blood to the brain, and hence the person loses 
consciousness because the function of the brain ceases. 
Restore the blood to the brain, and instantly the person 
recovers. Now, though the blood is propelled to all 
parts of the body by the action of the heart, yet it is 
still under the influence of the laws of gravitation. In 
the erect position the blood ascends to the head against 
gravitation, and the supply to the brain is diminished, 
as compared with the recumbent position, the heart’s 
pulsation being equal. If, then, you place a person 
sitting whose heart has nearly ceased to beat, his brain 
will fail to receive blood, while if you lay him down, 
with the head lower than the heart, blood will run into 
the brain by the mere force of gravity; and in fainting, 
in sufficient quantity to restore consciousness. Indeed, 
nature teaches us how to manage the fainting persons, 
for they always fall, and frequently are at once restored 
by the recumbent position into which they are thrown. 
—[ Exchange. 
How to Stop Bleeding. 
If a man is wounded so that blood flows, that flow is 
either regular, or by jets or spurts. If it flows regularly, 
a vein has been wounded, and a string should be bound 
tightly around below the wounded part, that is, beyond 
it from the heart. If the blood comes out by leaps or 
jets, an artery has been severed, and the person may 
bleed to death in a few minutes ; to prevent which ap¬ 
ply the cord above the wound, that is, between the 
wound and the heart. In case a string or cord is not at 
.hand, tie the two opposite corners of a handkerchief 
around the limb, put a stick between and turn it round 
until the handkerchief is twisted sufficiently tight to 
stop the bleeding, and keep it so until a physician can 
be had. 
