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Show WOMEN CAN STAND MORE COLD HERE'S WHY FLAPPERS LAUGH AT CRITICS THAN MEN, SCIENTISTS REPORT , - By NE A Service. NEW YuKK. .Inn. 27. Ever year during the cold season cartoonists, HH humorists, reformer and tbe male B species in enenl are thrown inio excitement hy the pnire of the flap Because she trips throiuh the zero weftther with feet encased or rather v-' -.po-' ,i n attenuated silk, jr-' I Or as the fashion veers, she ;.) pears shod In buds tan tin! galoshes bm w ith the upper edcre of her collar i WM sunk indefinitely below her ears nnd I I shoulders. "How does she dn It?" we all ask. The cynic murmur.' something about Die relative efficiency of vanity and Bteani heaf The moralist smells lire and brim-But brim-But now comes science to the : i J nf the flapper. THEY CAN STAND COLD. "Vanity, nothing!" says sclcnee J "It's a scientific fact that women -and especially young women are not , as sensitive to cold as men '' Then science explains that, women have a layer oi fatty ti.-sue under the skin. It is this layer that gives round-nc-sri and smoothness of contour to the feminine face and form. Bui, scientists nay. tbe biological function of this fatty layer isn't to give f?.ir sex an opportunity to display dis-play its charms in cold weather. FOOD RESERVE In.stcud, It's a reserve supply of lood Jmat'er. Stored up against the day of child bearing Fat, scientists sa , is formed In the houv WOOD one lakes in more loou ami energy than one uses up Then it serves as a reserve supply until there is need for more energy than one's , taking in. Periods of excessive draft on vital 'resources are unusual in men. Hut they occur normally In women in con ;nection with tbe bearing and nursing OI children. So ihe flapper laughs at Jack Frost and enlivens the dullness of life and the hosiery industry by virtue of her warm "uhden oating." |