Some may say that if people kill animals and birds for food they might just as well wear a dead bird on their hats, if they wish to be so silly, although the large majority of America's population, I am sorry to find, sincerely believe meat to be a necessary article of diet; yet who will claim that a dead bird on a hat is an indispensable article of wearing apparel?
Why do we dress at all?
First, I suppose, for protection against cold and heat; secondly, for comfort; thirdly, for decency; and, fourthly, for ornament.

Now does the dress of Americans meet these requirements?
First, as regards the weather, does woman's dress protect her from the cold?
The fact that a large number of persons daily suffer from colds arouses the suspicion that their dress is at fault.

The body is neither equally nor evenly covered, the upper portion being as a rule nearly bare, or very thinly clad, so that the slightest exposure to a draught, or a sudden change of temperature, subjects the wearer to the unpleasant experience of catching cold, unless she is so physically robust and healthy that she can resist all the dangers to which her clothing, or rather her lack of clothing, subjects her.

Indeed ladies' dress, instead of affording protection sometimes endangers their lives.
The following extract from the "London Times"-- and the facts cannot be doubted--is a warning to the fair sex.

"The strong gale which swept over Bradford resulted in an extraordinary accident by which a girl lost her life.