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IN placing before the public a book treating of dress in a scientific manner, I may be allowed to remark that people are apt to look upon the subject in a wholly frivolous way. For my present purpose I will divide mankind into two classes, the people who think and the people who do not think. Now the people who think, the intellectual part of the population, look upon dress as something beneath and quite unworthy their attention; the people who do not think regard it wholly as a means of display. Yet it is in truth one of the great powers which preserve or destroy Health, and its influence is unceasingly felt from birth to death—a matter, not of slight, but of vital importance, for it exercises a powerful, if often unrecognized influence on the health of the community.

Hence, attention to the subject should be considered a matter of duty, and time spent on it ought to be very far from wasted, and it is much to be