Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Wearing Linen. [ARTICLE]

Wearing Linen.

“So you liave given up wearing flannel. Why is this?” asked one lady of another. “I gave it up because 1 found something so much more comfortable. I am going to turn the order of undergarments topsy-turvy and wear linen in winter for warmth and wool in summer for coolness if I wear wool at all, which is somewhat doubtful. Why, my dear, do you know that I always take cold when I leave off my linen housedresses in the fall and put on wool onos? I had notio*ti this for several seasons and finally made some experiments, by which I satisfied myself that linen or cotton was warmer than wool, and so I am going to fly in the face of tradition and custom and wear linen, and you will find that my health will improve. I entertain ideas about the hoalthfulness of garments that can only be washed in warm water. “Of course we know that a moderate degree of heat not only does not destroy the germs of disease, but is favorable to their growth, and it appears to me that flannels worn from month to month, sometimes from soason to season, with only warm baths between wearings, must, in the nature of things, accumulate impurities. Suppose thoro is an illness or exposure to disease, how could there be more favorable conditions for its continuance than the flannels as at present.