Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1917 — NOW THE LUMINOUS COLLAR [ARTICLE]

NOW THE LUMINOUS COLLAR

Genius Has Invented Coat With Phosphorescent Cross, to Be Worn In London's Darkened Streets. ■ t By the time the war baa lasted for ' 33 years, only the very patient London-j ers will consent, whatever views the police and old Count Zeppelin may hold on the matter, to go on colliding with I one another and breaking leg after leg and all the available collar bones. We shall all want to light up, like bicycles, and to follow the example of two illuminated young ladles who have an eye to the times in which we live. They were wearing a new line in drop fittings—luminous collars. Most of us are, In this period, as invisible as an Ethiopian minstrel wearing mourning in a coal yard'on a foggy night. The city genius has Invented a collar for women, the tape In which glows a brilliant purple, and the blacker .the atmosphere the stronger the light. It Is a wonderful spectacle. When a representative arrived at the city office, the director, who has applied for a patent for his collar and deserves It—pulled down the blinds, and the two lady clerks had apparently vanished in the Maskelyne manner, only for crossed bars of phosphorescent purple which were the parts of their collars that had been treated scientifically. Even the laundryman, the inventor claims, cannot remove the glow-worm effect. Certainly it would save me from collision with passers-by. Of course a certain amount of risk still remains, for a lamp post, a conservative creature, will not step out of the way of a collar. Meanwhile, what about luminous hats for men and luminous boots? Can nothing be done in luminous curbstones? It is obvious, however, that these things will come and a man will be able to hire himself out for the homeward journey with such luminous devices on his clothes as this: Wear Spinks’ Phosphor Halos and Luminous Blacking. There seems not the slightest doubt that the luminous collar is practical and will be seen all lover London. But what effect will be produced on the mind of a man going home from an earnest evening at the club when he meets luminous collar girls with rub-ber-heeled boots walking rapidly toward him—well. —London News.