MORE MEN THAN WOMEN FAINT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 846, 18 June 1910, Page 11

MORE MEN THAN WOMEN FAINT.

"More men than women faint nowadays/' Dr. J. Kice Gibbs, a prominent physician, declared recently. He said his declaration' was based on observations extending over many years. It may upset traditions so firmly established that they have long been accepted as unquestionable truth. Fiction of 50 years ago was built • around Jieroincs, who fainted with the least excuse. Women understood that they were to faint at opportune moments, and they did, or appeared to. Sometimes they do faint. So do men, but for one reason or another the "fainting:? of men seldom get. into print. The •truth is that not only do many men faint, but they faint sometimes with . apparently no reason for doiug so. In substantiation oi\ this is the statement of a prominent tailor, who states that four times within a year men haw fainted in his place while trying on clothes. Ho said that this waft the experience of practically all tailors. .The only explanation'he could make was that men on whom partly finished clothes aro being ,fitted. arc apt to stand in a stilt' attitude, and this unusual strain, interfering with respiration, is enough to send them to the lloor. This is interesting, but probably if inquiry were made, it would be found .that the process of having a dress tried on makes many a woman faint. Dressmakers are ( prepared, for this, and they say that the customer who is most liable to faint is the bride who is using Tip all her energy in getting her trousseau frocks,' and comes .to the dressmaker worn-out and nervy.