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Updated: May 2, 2025
They wore tiny boots, which cost eight dollars a pair house boots, and street boots lacing up to the knees; they had house-coats, walking-coats, dusters, sweaters, coats lined with ermine, and automobile coats with head and chest-protectors and hoods and goggles and each coat fitted with a pocket for its tiny handkerchief of fine linen or lace!
You might as well light a bundle of wooden tooth-picks and put it in the fire-place. If you could sleep all the time you might be comfortable, for they give you a feather-bed to cover yourself with. Outside you may do well enough if you keep up a steady walking, but indoors you will have hard work to keep warm. You must wear chest-protectors.
The more you pile on, the more you choke and "flabbify" the skin and make it ready to "strike" on the first breath of cold air. Too heavy flannels are cold-breeders, and chest-protectors inventions of the evil one. Trust the skin; it is one of the most important and toughest organs in the body, if only given half a chance.
"Catchy on a day like this!" suggested the druggist, with a chuckle. "I'll admit they gave me the key for my own windows." Richard's gaze followed the other's glance and rested on piles of scarlet flannel chest-protectors, flanked by small brass tea-kettles with alcohol lamps beneath. "We carry a side line of spirit-lamp stuff," explained the dealer. "It sells well this time of year.
On her knees beside the couch there, the second waistcoat was already taking shape beneath the cocksure needles. The old pinkly moist look had come out in her face. One million boys "out there" were needing chest-protectors!
Does a little mother with something like that to bank on have time to be miserable over family rows? You're going to knit while I'm gone. The busiest little mother a fellow ever had, doing her bit for her country! There's signs up all over the girls' campus: 'A million soldiers "out there" are needing wool jackets and chest-protectors.
To sum up, if you wish to revel in colds, all that is necessary is to observe the following few and simple rules: Keep your windows shut. Avoid drafts as if they were a pestilence. Take no exercise between meals. Bathe seldom, and in warm water. Wear heavy flannels, chest-protectors, abdominal bandages, and electric insoles. Have no heat in your bedroom.
"I always like to see people well dressed, sir," I said, "because it makes such a difference in their appearance." He slapped his thigh fiercely. "My gosh! that's true. He's got you there, Sour-dough. I never thought of that." "He makes me wear these chest-protectors on my ankles," said Cousin Egbert bitterly, extending one foot.
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