Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1913 — Wear White When Traveling. [ARTICLE]

Wear White When Traveling.

A physician who has had a good deal of experience attending the victims of railroad wrecks sounds the knell of the black dressing gown, silk, muslin or wool, no matter what the material, so often worn by Women traveling at night "When traveling at night women should make it a point to wear white even more than when sleeping safely at home in their own 'beds," said this doctor. ‘‘More than once in my own experience among railroad wrecks I have known women wearing black traveling nightgowns or dressing gowns to be passed by in the search for victims.

“They had been made unconscious by injury or else had fainted through shock and fright; and nurses and doctors searching for victims. failed to find them simply because their carefully donned black night robes made them indistinguishable in the surrounding darkness.”