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Show The blacksmith at his forge, the chemist or metallurgist over his retort, and tho puddler at the furnace are exposed to ten-fold greater dangers from fire than arc women over the cookihg"raup,c". But they do not, like tho women, onvelopo themselves in thin drapery, as inllammable almost as powder or nitro glycerine, but wear woolens or thick, heavy cotton fabrics, which aro not easily ignited. It was only on Saturday lust that a miss of fourteen was sacrificed in this city to the folly of wearing inllammable skirts. She stood by an open rango, and in reaching forward her skirts came in contact with the flames. Our housewives and maid servants need not don the bifurcated garment if they have an unconquerable repugnance repug-nance to it; but when engaged about a fire they might at least put on n cheap lbnnet or other woolen dress. And they might learn better than to empty either powJer-cans or petroleum petro-leum cans into the Blove to hurry a slow fire a form of suicide by which hundreds of women every year hasten their exit from the earthly sphere. Phil.- Times. |