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Show YOUR HEALTH BY OR R H OISHOP. i ! Careless dressing offers an open avenue ave-nue through which the diseases of this season colds. Influenza, pneumonia may attack you. Use care In picking your clothinc this spring! Ovorclothlnr yourself renders tho skin oversensitive so that whon it Is subjected to sudden exposure It is unable un-able to .stand It and you ' catch cold " The popular theory 1 that clothing bestows heal to the body by keeping out tho cold. The fact Is that clothing Is a sort I of afcly valve which regulates the nmoiinl of heat allowed to escape from J the body Naturally also, the clothes do de- fond the body to a certain extent ! against the external Influences of win. I ! and weather KEEPS BEAT INSIDE rio'hlng. no matter of what materia), ma-teria), possesses the power of retaining retain-ing a layer of air kept warm by our I bodies This la'.er of air arles o.e-I o.e-I cording to the fineness and closeness I Of the weave of the material used. Thick uarmrnts -ire warmer than : tbln garments of the same material i merely because thov retain In their i "sto s a greater quantity of heated i air j lxose clothing Is warmer than tight clolblnflr ro also with shoes and ir loves. I With loose clothing shoe or cloves, t hern is a larger luver of heatod air between the skin and the material. Thv circulation of the blood Is froer, too. PERMIT PERSPIRATION Tim material of the clothing should bo such as to allow free perspiration from the skin. We sweat In winter as well as summer, but tho sweat Is In the form of vapor and Is Invisible, T0 help make the bodv strong only the minimum amount of clothing tha Will secure warmth should ba worn Woolepa protect most, but they require the least exorcise of the temperature regulating apparatus of tho bod) Tho wool becomes saturated with tho perspiration which It holds to tho disadvantage of the skin Therefore, woolen clolhLiu," should be confined to outer garments as overcoats, designed eapeelplly for rolder weather Fur coats make the skin oversensitive. oversen-sitive. or |