A USEFUL HINT.
We have more than once (says the “ Lancet ”) asked attention for the undoubted effect of color on the radiating power of clothing. Remembering that the only source of animal the winter season especially—is located within the organism, and that the use of clothes is to conserve the caloric, it is important to take advantage of every circumstance which will help the result 5 desired. Certainly light-colored sub* stances approaching to white do not part witli their heat so readily as dark. The hear of the polar regions is for this reason provided with white fur, while Ids brother of wanner climates has a dark-colored integument. It therefore seems desirable, to prefer bright to sombre hues, and if this choice were made the result would be an air of chcefulness in the public streets. Fashion is, of course, omnipotent and inexorable, but, if not too late, avc should like to urge the consideration suggested by science and common-sense on those who have not yet laid in their store of winter clothing. The matter may seem of small moment, blit the life we live is made up of small considerations and little affairs.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2132, 22 January 1880, Page 2
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194A USEFUL HINT. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2132, 22 January 1880, Page 2
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