Show CHINESE WINTER in tit the north of china whore where the winter is very scheie the inhabit inhabitants ants adopt a curious mode of protecting themselves against 0 the cold they put on one olla suit of clothes over another until they carry about them their whole wardrobe their figure being thereby considerably inci ci eased cased bythe by the bulk As spring comes on they gradually discoid these vestments and legain their ordin ordinary try dimensions chete is one peculiarity however which is ia golthy of notice that notwithstanding 0 the mount amount of clothing with winch which they envelope their body and limbs they invariably leave the throat unprotected however intense the cold As they do riot not suffer from coughs 0 and rarely from disease of tile the lungs we must conclude that the exposure of the throat has a beneficial insult arid and in this respect we might Z take hints bioni the celestials Celesti als they talc take more cale however of their theira auricular ui appendage 0 those of all classes being 0 protected froni from frostbite by small cases called tau tan fi fitting exactly over the car and lined with rabbit or squirrel skin I 1 these are arc connected by a thin cold coid which passes round the wearers bearers wear ers chin or upper lip and thus keeps them in place from this description of the winter garments gar menta of those singular people the chinese I 1 cannot help thinking the cl cunning inning celestials Celesti als have discovered pet perhaps haps unwittingly a vei y important fact it is by that means of the stratum or layer of air aai which must exist between bac each h of their numerous nume num ious cious suits 0 of f clothes tile radiation of beat aiom the body is in its passage to the outer air thus it is retained it in its original ginal temperature for a much longer period th than thania anif it had merely to pass pas s through 0 one gai ment arid stratum of air each of these strata also being naturally lly wa warmer iner than the last lastar as they approach the body from the outer air in in coming it leaches ica clies it considerably modified in temperature thus for the same reason we find two pairs of gloves warmer thin one thick one |