“Women should clothe their limbs with regard to health and comfort. Their feet and limbs need to be clad as warmly as men’s. The length of the fashionable dress is objectionable for several reasons: {1T 459.1} “1. It is extravagant and unnecessary to have the dress of such a length that it will sweep the sidewalk and street. {1T 459.2}“2. A dress thus long gathers dew from the grass, and mud from the streets, and is therefore unclean. {1T 459.3}“3. In its bedraggled condition it comes in contact with the sensitive ankles, which are not sufficiently protected, quickly chilling them, and thus endangering health and life. This is one of the greatest causes of catarrh and of scrofulous swellings. {1T 459.4} “4. The unnecessary length is an additional weight upon the hips and bowels. {1T 459.5}“5. It hinders the walking, and is also often in other people’s way. {1T 459.6} | |
Vidnesbyrd for menigheden bind 1 kapitel 83. 459. Fra side 459 i den engelske udgave. | tilbage |
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