DUDES BEWARE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1715, 20 June 1884, Page 2

DUDES BEWARE.

" Here, conductor, this young man's fainted." The {words were uttered in a tone of great excitement by a stout woman of about forty year's of ago in, a Columbia avenue car, and as sjo spoke, a slim youth who was seated bosideherin a corner of the car fell forward and dropped in a heap on the straw. A doctor was hurriedly summoned, and after a disappearance of about ten minutes tho young man and the physician came out of- the room winch bad been kept closed, arm ,in t/ ™. Ie young man's face was still p.ile, and he walked with a very perceptible tremor. The doctor said that is the fourth case this month I have seen of tlia deadly efiects of wearing tight tiousers, and had that' youn" man not bedu attended to. promptly he might have been in great danger, t" Tight trousers ?" queried a bystander, mcreduoiisly, "Yes, sir, tight trousers ! Why, you cannot imagine how often we doctors have to treat cases of illness brought on by no other cause. Take that young man for instance. His trousers were, at least four sizes too small for him j not too- short, of course, but too tight, and for hours and hours he had been walking about with a pressure of at least 2751b to the

square inch on his olexii vivisectori arteries, which are situated in the calves of the human leg. This treradons pressure forces the blood into channels not able to carry ib without undue straining; and, though the victim feels no pain, he is liable atany moment to topple oyer in a swoon, find unless relief is promptly giyen, a long and serious illness is likely to, follow. It is a similar trouble to that, experienced when it was in fashion forladies to wear very tight sleeves,, except that in the case of tight trousers the material is heavier, the arteries are larger, and the result apt to be more, dangerous and{difficult and, to relieve,"—Philadelphia .Record,