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Show DARE CLOTHES ARE HOTTER. M. Flammarion, the diverting French astronomer with a Jules Verne imagination, imagi-nation, recently made an interesting experiment ex-periment by which hot weather victims should be able to profit. . He placed two thermometers, one 'of ordinary glass, the other painted black, ln the sun. In the white glass the mercury rose to 144 (C). Under the black glass it went up to 157. .- M. Flammarion therefore concludes con-cludes that people who wear black in summer are some 1J degrees warmer than those who dress ln white. In other words, men, generally speaking, are greater sufferers from the heat than women. . Also, for the benefit of victims vic-tims -who go around ln top hats, M. Flammarion tells that putting on a silk .hat, and standing In the July sun for an hour, thermometer - placed on your skull beneath the. heat .will register from 107.6 to 114.8. Detroit Journal. |