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Show Use Caution With Xmas Costumes . . . A child wearing a gauzy costume cos-tume and holding a lighted candle can be transferred into a flaming torch in a few seconds. Santa's whiskers are also fuel for flames. A movie star who played Santa Claus for a children's party forgot he was wearing a big white beard and lit up a cigar. The beard flared up in his face. A New York girl wore a black net evening gown at a Christmas party. She brushed against a lighted candelabra which immediately immedi-ately ignited her dress. These incidents emphasize the need for caution at Christmas. Wearing of inflammable flimsy costumes cos-tumes and dresses of net or gauzelike gauze-like fabrics should be discouraged. If they are worn, they can be made flame-resistant with the following solution: 9 ounces borax 4 ounces boric acid 1 gallon of water. The fabric should be well saturated satu-rated with the solution, then wrung out by hand, and hung to dry. Fabrics so treated will retain their flexibility and softness. However, the flame-retardent qualities are lost when the fabric is washed again, and the process must be repeated re-peated after each washing. |