WHITE CUFFS SANITARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 11

WHITE CUFFS SANITARY.

From an aesthetic point of view . (says, the London 1 "Lancet")'the cuff;seems to.be an indispensable part of the clothing,.of. toe . neatly and'cleanly ' dressed individual. . This .course, ? that, ,th&;cuff : '-is.;clean and spotless. 'Bacteriological refinements are ■; often dismissed' by many - peqplov'as; inadmis- . sible in the common - applications,:.of life,' rut. the exhibition of a dirty or even frayed'cuff • is commonly held to be the mark, of. slovenidirtjor s/ixidiipatipnV: that the individual has. lost. ,■ all -regard' ' for his . cleaiilyappearaiic«; l and l cohdition-;,.jThere can .. be no doubt' at' -all that;when. the cuff, picks up, ;as it is so .prono to do, dirt from tho counter, 3esk, or table,, it piclcsup ii'so- a multitude of micro-organisms. |..i.--v , . = Dirt. so. far may be -welcomed,,'inasmuch,. as ; it indicates an insanitary state of affairs. . Thero isV.'therefore, .a very' strong- BC'cnl-iflo V; argument in' favour of the wearing of 'ate- •• rials. which readily exhibit the: signs, of . soiling. The white dress, the drills and the ducks jnust' necessarily,'be cleaned ;at-.regular , intervals, be cause they look unsightly .or are an .pffenco to the eye. The demand of the eye thus encourages the preservation of the hygienio state. It i 3 so also'with the cuff.' > .No : man with any. respect for himself can wear a dirty cuff, and by keeping his cuffs. •' religiously ' clean .or by: changing thoin . frequently ho is reducing, his chances of-coming into 'intimate contact' with a colloction of | . " entities.. , The • adoption - of.!4 '.dark goods," or of those, materials which do not show dirt, may therefore be regarded as a retrograde step, for it is obvious that mch , 'materials must get :soiled justas.minh V'as'.''BoS'.those'.;which easily -show defilement. .They, however, are. not so frequently " cleansed,'because, there is no offence -to the : eye, even after, several, days'; wear, and' thus dirt is avowed to accumulate. 1 - When'a roan finds it convenient, to wear, coloured shirts ; nnd cuffs he ■ means in reality that he can carry dirt for a. little longer; without giving , offence than if he wore a spotlessly white 1 material,, or at all . events a material which readily, exhibits the smear of dirt or grea&v The washing bill is, -of course, reduced, aud - "the.terrors diminished*,of'th§'disintegrating process'which is involved in an -oft-repeated : visit, to, the.laun&rj.; Lastly,.'it- be meii- , tioned that -from the point of view of hygi- ' enic .demand, .the .coloured,: handkerchief-is fan abomination when its colour is merely, adopted . in ordar to avoid frequent washing., ;