Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1898 — Beware of the Tight Collar. [ARTICLE]

Beware of the Tight Collar.

“Headaches, eyeaches? Don’t wonder. You are undergoing a mild form st strangulation. Look here,” and the physician, who in a twinkling had sighted the foundation of his patient's trouble, gave a vicious tweak at her board-like throat environment “This fashion,” be continued, “has put more of your sox upon the all list than any other of your drees absurdities. There hasn't a woman come into.my ottos for over a year whose neck wasn't confined in this tortuous way. I have traced more than one case of congested blood at the base of the brain to thia collar fad. "It is responsible for red noses, bad skins and other forms of repressed circulation. "Now, I cannot Insert my finger between your collar and your throat and yet you wonder Why yon are baring so much trouble with your head and eyes. "Rip up your high collars, my mieguided young lady, and tell your dressmaker not to put another bit of binding about your throat When you do this, I’ll vouch for the headache’s departure.” The shirt waist girl is a trig Httlo body to look at, from her neatly belted waist to her eplok and span linen choker. 'lt Is half an Inch higher, if pos* slble, this stiffly starched collar, than the one she wore last year. It has crept tip just as close as it could at ths lobesof her ears, and she wears It In sublime indifference to Its discomfort. But the time of reckoning is coming. When the drop In throat stock arrives, and It Is only a question of time before it is heralded In Bvedom, oh! what a walling there will be over departed throat beauty! The high collar win have left its traces in Criss-cross lines, discolored skin and ugly neck circles. Then there will be a grand hustle for massage, for cream baths and like remedies. And the woman who has bravely gone about during the high collar period In waists with old-fash-ioned, turned-away throats, will thank her lucky stars that she had the good ■ease to keep out of the movement.— New Orleans Picayune.