THE LONG SKIRT AND ITS DANGERS.
By Philadelphia Press
A SCIENTIFIC man in Rome has just been conducting a very practical experiment. All this time, since the long skirt came into fashion, doctors have been talking microbes, and warning women of the evil of their ways. But has any one thought to put a gown under the microscope and give visible proof of the truth of what he has been saying?—Not a soul, except this learned scientist in Rome. He employed three young women to take their long skirts out on a microbe-collecting expedition. When they returned, after doing their duty thoroughly and well, he took the three garments to his laboratory and gave them a searching investigation. He found all the microbes of the streets. The result was horrible to relate. Allied in force, the microbes of those three skirts were found to be sufficient to contaminate the whole population of China, and that is more than four hundred and fifty millions. Yet the number of these microbes was probably no greater than each one of us brings into the house every time we go out in that article of attire with death in its train. The wonder is that we manage to live at all.—Philadelphia Press.