Show VA I I II e I l f m n. W 1 r r i fP If fA i A tJI V la lit K S fI 0 z w It lI fJ 11 I BY WILLIAM B sacra o I II I Wool vs Cotton Underwear j I In an m article dealing with common car Infections a very excellent physician physician physician phy phy- I who edits a 3 prominent medical Journal advocated cotton or linen underwear underwear un un- un-I un for or these reasons Cotton or r linen should bo be worn next the thc skirt skid I Wool absorbs and holds moisture and Invites colds The skin Is badly hadly educated educated edu edu- b by woo wool inasmuch a as It becomes relaxed and falls fails to contract BO so to speak when such protection Is needed DecrIed by hy the body This automatic response I Is essential if it we wo are to resist undue un nun- due exposure to cold currents I was a Just about to put on m my light lightweight lightweight wel weight ht all wool imitation of the coat of hair my 01 great to tho uto nth power grandfather lost when he tucked his tall up under his arm and began strutting strutting strut strut- ting about on his hind legs fie Tho article article article ar ar- worried me I 1 haven't caught cold in ill a long time lime not since 1 l learned that dra l. l are salutary and weather changes are arc conducive e to hood good health And I didn't want to take chances So I to the tho doctor Always write to a d doctor clor when you 1 0 want to get at the truth of or things concerning health and hygiene I said Wool Z ool isn't a very good absorbent In surgery surg-cr we use uso cotton colton to absorb and hold moisture never wool Light weight knitted wool underwear underwear un un- permits free evaporation of moisture between Its meshes whereas where where- as cotton colton or linen tends to hold the moisture and this makes the Uie skin clammy It If you have havo ever worn a cotton and then a woolen bathing suit sulL I you know how much less chilly and clammy the wool feels when you come u up for air and parade about th the beach The arguments you oU put up hold true for tho the old time tightly lightly woven flannels flannels flannels flan flan- nels of oC our grandfathers But Hut modem modem mod mod- em ern knitted goods overturn It all Whereupon the doctor replied replied for for I you see 1 did not forget to a stamped addressed envelope for his I convenience 1 know know ell oh how well I know that know that a doctor octor Just naturally grinds rinds his to teeth th in fn uncontrollable rage when he receives a loose or worse wort e estill still till an attached stamp or two In n a letter leUer Here Herc is part of or what the tho doctor I Isaid said I i confess that I like to be bundled bundled bun bun- died up in wool In in very cold weather being one of or those deteriorated elt city dwellers fire Tho vasomotor system of oC primitive man was on tho the Job Wo We have to shield our vasomotor system carefully and brace It up with tea and coffee We 0 have to wear wool Youre You're perfectly right We Wo ought not notto notto to need It but were we're soft orL orLOf I Of course coure a doctor is not required I Ito to practice what he ho preaches But i he ho ought to preach to present day man and arid not to the tho cave e dweller droller whoso whose I hair was ample amplo clouting clothing Wear light weight knitted wool underwear underwear un un- un and anti stockings s s of ot a similar weight of or wool or sulk MIlk Then Theu you ou are aro as hard harl as primitive primitivo man lUau ever was in all his Ilis glory |