Show I I Keeping ng Cool When Its It's Hot h By SCIENCE SERVICE WASHINGTON July 4 4 The The wIsecrack wisecrack wisecrack wise wIse- crack that circulated In iii recent years about women outstripping the men when It comes to keeping cool was Just lust another true word spoken in lest Jest Whatever psychological Inhibitions the ladles ladies may have heaved overboard with the close o of the late lamented Victorian era they certainly certainly tat b bought 0 11 g h t WEAR WEAK FEWER themselves mo more mere r e CLOTHES comfort and betTO betTO betTO bet- bet TO KEEP health in hi h hot o t COOLER weather when they shed t their h e 1 r supernumerary petticoats Even with the he returns of somewhat longer skirts within the past year or two they have still stUl kept ept the essence of ot their emancipation from heat Skirts If they ar are not too numerous numerous numer numer- ous or too voluminous are arc much better hot weather garments than trousers This Is evidenced In part by bythe bythe bythe the ancestral lines of the two types of garment Trousers were Invented apparently In the cooler parts of the he world the cold northern lands around the Baltic and the uplands of ot Persia and China Skirts are evolutions evolutions evo- evo of the hot lands They were worn by both men and women In an ancient an- an dent Babylonia and Egypt and they are still worn by brown and black peoples who take the thc trouble to wear any my mentionable clothes at all The burnoose of the Bedouin while not exactly a skirt does embody the Idea idea of getting the principal garment as loose as possible catching quantities of ot ventilating air under its s folds The poor sweltering male suffers another disadvantage which Is anatomical ana and inherent rather than traditional He insists on holding up his trousers with a belt and he hasn't any proper waist for the tho belt to cling cUng to Even a slim sUm young youn fellow has to pull himself In quite a bit In the middle and as for poor portly Plus Forty well Plus well hes he's just out o o. o luck Men would be much better of off If they would boldly wear suspenders even when their inhibitions permit them to remove their coats They might take a hint from the Joyous Tyrolese and Swiss who wear leather shorts without apology and who make mako their elaborate suspenders things of ot beauty and Joys forever with embroidery and sliver silver buttons As for the masculine Insistence on wearing a halter round his neck inthe in Ip inthe the shape of a collar and necktie necktie- well man has only himself I to blame for that He shouldn't consider his Adams Adam's apple with so much self self- lf- lf consciousness and try to suppress it St To be sure he has mitigated the in insanity insanity insanity in- in sanity of or rigid starched collars In but he would do well to summer continue continue continue con con- the thc crusade and Insist that his purveyors of ot personal linen either loosen his neckline another couple of Inches or else do away a with collars altogether |