Bad Effects Of Tight Collars

A chapter might be written on the deleterious effects of tight collars, and especlally that variety which projects stiffly beneath the neck to the manifest discomfort of the wearer and the amusement of the beholders. By compressing the Teins they of course interfere with the return of blood from the head and thereby promote red noses and pimpled faces, against which all the cosmetic lotions in the world are of no avail so long as the mechanical cause is allowed to remain. Tight collars are even accused - and with some show of reason of causingr serious defects of the visual apparatus. due to heightened blood pressure, arising from the artiricial impediment to the blood fiow at the root of the neck. We should not be surprised to find that these execrable contrivanees were also responsible for watery eyes, pendent lips and the general vacuousness of e:;pression which nsually characterizes the physiognomy of their wearers.