Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — REVEALS SECRET OF WOMAN [ARTICLE]

REVEALS SECRET OF WOMAN

Scientist Telle Why She Can Defy Cold In Decollete—Special Layer of Fat Acquired. London.—Why can apparently fragile women wear pneumonia blouses In the arctic springs of the British Isles? Why can they do these things and wear an evening costume which would be fatal to the majority of men, and yet suffer no barm? These are questions that have pussled the Dally Mirror. To solve them It applied to “an experienced doctor who has studied the subject** He had been puzzled by the same problems The scientist knew that woman’s 'skin was more tender than man’s and their constitutions generally lees able to stand cold and wet, so he looked Into the matter. He then discovered that “women have a special layer of fat all over their bodies, thicker than a man's and acquired #hen human kind dwelt In caves and huts." "In those days," he argued, "the men were able to keep/ therasel ves warm by hunting and flghting. . . . The woman had to stay

at home In the eave.tb look after the baby and cook her husband’s dinner whenever he might bring it in. “And caves or huts must have been chilly abodes in keen weather with an east wind blowing; and women, who had no hunting to warm their blood and enable them to resist cold, suffered accordingly. "So nature set to work and gradually built up on women a special layer of protective fat That took a few thousand years probably, for nature never works in a hurry, since time is no object to her; but bit by bib the work was completed, and now women can play what seem to men foolhardy tricks with comparative immunity.”