METAL LINGERIE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 October 1927, Page 11

METAL LINGERIE

How would you like to wear metal lingerie—not a vest of chain-mail like the Crusaders of old, but mixed in like silk and wool? Methinks in these days of lightweight “undies” we would find it rather too burdensome, but Miss Grace Prendergast, of London, has had to adopt this form of underwear owing to oveisensitiveness to radio waves. Professor A. M Low, widely Known electrical scientist, prescribed the insulated “under-things” following tests he made that showed electrical oscillations to have caused mysterious ailments from which Miss Prendergast has suffered for four years. “Miss Prendergast came to me and appealed for help,” Professor Low said to the United News. “She told me that doctors had been unable to explain mysterious burns, bruises, blisters and interna] pains from which she suffered

“Miss Prendergast had reached a point where she was ready to believe mysterious spirits or other supernatural causes to be responsible. “Suspecting the trouble might be due to electricity, I subjected her to various scientific tests.

“I found Miss Prendergast was extraordinarily sensitive to all electrical oscillations, and thought they might be responsible lor her pains. “Hence 1 suggested that the remedy might consist of clothing netted with metal, insulating her body, as lead is employed to prevent X-rays from attacking scientific operatives.”

Thank goodness, that although we may get a bit hot under the skin sometimes, we are not as sensitive as that.