Lightning And Rubbers

The one thing which a woman most áreads - barriiig, of course, a rnouse and being out of style - is a thuuder tshower. Manymost estimable women, of character and force, who eau lead groat ciusades aud reYolutionize society, go all to pieces at a elap of thuuder, and a good many mei), too, for that matter. It is not agreeable to be struck by lightuiug. Nor is it at all necessary. There is a sure preventiye - as sure as it is simple, inexpensive aud always accessible - a pair of rubbers. If a womau will siinply put on a pair of rubbers when the lightniug begins to flash and the thunder to roar, and will stand on the floor so that she touches nothing else, she will be as safe as if she were sealed in a glass cage. Rubber is a nonconductor of electricity, and if the lightning has to go through a sheet of rubber to get at you it will leave you alone and take something else. Lu other words, when you have on a pair of rubbers and are not in coutact with anything, you are perfectly insnlated. This is not a theory merely. It is a fact proved by innumerable experiences. A pair of rubbers has saved many a life in a thunderstorm. Last sumnier Horace W. Folger of Cambridgeport, Mass. , -was on a pilotboat in Boston harbor, when a thunder shower came up. He was on deck wearing rubber boots, but steadying himself with one hand by a wire cable from the main topmast. Lightning struck the topmast, shivering it into splinters. Down the cable went the current. Polger was knocked unconscious. When he recovered, he was full of aches and pains, but he pulled through. If it had not been for the rubber boots, the cnrrent would have passed entirely through him. As it was the cnrrent could not get through his boots, so it passed down the cable. It rnight be well to add that a pair of rubbers to be effective against lightning must be sound and whole. Do not put on an old pair 'with a crack in the toe because elëctricity will get out of a very small hole when it is cornered, and a pair of defective rubbers will do you no good.