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Show EDITORIAL: When Axel Was a Boy When Axel Birch was a boy the girls went to school in the winter, clothed in long handled unmentionables; and they wore heavy black stockings to boot. Now we don't advocate retracing retrac-ing our steps to the days when Axel was in his prime, but for health's sake, and health's sake only we do stand for proper winter win-ter dress. There may be no connection between the serious outbreak of winter colds, pneumonia, and flu, and the fact that school girls I refuse to wear stockincs, yet the i increase in these afflictions is 'pretty well established. It's funny fun-ny but the increase is most ap-naront ap-naront among school girls. It doesn't take the Board of Health or a physician to tell us that we're going to get sick unless un-less we dress for the weather nny sap should know enough to Veep warm whon the temperature tempera-ture goes down. But vanity seemr to have overruled common senw, and bobby socks appear when stocking caps should be in vogue. No, we don't want to roam around looking like the folks did when Axel was a boy, but we do want to keep well, and the only way to keep well is to dress according to the dictates of the weather. Somebody pulled a fast one when he or she talked the school girls into bobby socks; they might look all right, but there isn't a school girl in the Uintah Basin who will say that they are comfortable in zero weather. Let's get down to common sense and ask the young ladies of town to figure out a suitable stocking to replace the bobby sock. Sure, let bobby socks reign when the weather is right, but for health's sake let's ask the girls to put on warm stockings when the snow starts to fly , even if they have to put on the1 same kind that girls wore when Axel was a boy. |
