The woman's book, dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 229
bod- ily heat depends less upon the sub- stances of which stuffs are woven than upon the amount of air entangled in their meshes. To prevent the escape of heat a non-conducting medium is necessary ; and air, like gaseous bodies in general, is a bad conductor. Woollen fabrics are warmer than cotton… … The Hoop-skirt and Pannier, 1847. sirable in women's apparel, or in any- The matter of Art in dress, it will one's apparel ; but both of these injuri- be remembered, was violently agitated ous conditions are easily avoidable. A
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