DRESS SENSIBLY | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 30.

DRESS SENSIBLY.

A SPRIGHTLY woman writer writing to women says: "If you want to be happy, dress sensibly, and according to the season. Women are eaten up with neuralgia, say the doctors. No wonder. They sit still all the morning by a hot register, then tie the five or six-inch strip of bonnet over their hair, a bit of lace film over their bangs, put on kid boots, with silk or thread stockings underneath, and dawdle along the pavement, with cold, raw winds smiting their temples, their ears, their throat, and the bases of what should be their brains. The outraged nerves shrink and quiver under their barbarous exposure. But no matter; the chest is well covered with fur cloaks and sacks; but cold feet, numb ears, reddened temples, the exposed neck, will have their own story to tell.

"Then most of the so-called genteel persons won't wear flannel next to the skin. Why?—Because their waists will look too large, and it is the style to be as near in shapeliness to that delightful and lovely insect, the wasp, as humanity can be forced. Thinking of these things, I sometimes wonder if women really like to ache and groan, and to be laid aside every few days with agonizing headaches or panting, laboring hearts?

"Strange, if true."—Annals of Hygiene.