Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-06-10
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necessary 10 easy breathing, confines
the lungs and diminishes the chamber
in which the heart beats as il fills with
blood and frequently interrupts its ac-
ton and produces ,faiating. From this
practice arises difficult. breathing, pal-
pitation, acute, or low indanmatory acS
lions which are liable to result 10 adhe-
sions of contiguous parts, pain in the
slde,. cough and consumption. This
ractice has is effects, too, upon the
organs in the upper part Of the body.
particularly the stomach and liver
Compression, here exerted, impedes
the delicate processes going on in these
organs, the natural and easy condition
of which is necessary to health. In
this way foundation is laid for dys-
pepsia and all its train cf attending dis
eases.
when tight lacing Is adopted, as ie
often is, at the age Of eleven, twelve or
thirteen. its mischievous effects are ID
a great measure irremidable. The ca-'
pacity of the chest is permanently di-
minished, SO that .dnring the natural
growth Of those parts which are confin-
ed, the lungs are prevented from en-
volving TO their. natural and necessary
extent, thus establishing 4 permanent
disproportion between the breathing
and circulating system, or between the
greater and lesser circulaiious. This
disproportion generates arrangement Of
functions ID vital organs, which tends
TO produce a diseased structure that
medicine cannot remove.
The pricnipal object in employing
the tight dressing apparatus, is 70 bring
about such an alteration in the form
of the body as to throw it out Of all ma
,urai''proportion. This alteration, how
ever satisfactory it may be to the indi-
yidual. is u violation Of acknowledged
principles of beauty. An inspection Of
the exquisite models Of fGrecian scuip-
ture which have come down to US. and
which, because true, to nature, have
stood the test Of criticism for twenty
centuries. and still command the hom-
age. Of genius, as combining all that de-
lights in native symmetry, or elegant
proportion. clearly shows the a6surdity
of that standard which distorts the finest
forms. changes them into resemblance
of certain insect tribes. and reyolts and
sickens at the. richest aud fairest pro-
portions with which the God OF nature
has blessed the world.
Pride commences with our life.
grows with oar growth, and spreads
through all our conversation and con-
duct. She accompanies Us through eve
ry stage, condition and circumstance Of
our terrestrial course. She intermin-
giles with almost every action we per-
form. and every pursuit in which we
engage. She attends US to the grave,
in all the pomp, solemnity, and expense
Of funeral. She engrayes her osten-
tatious inscriptions on the stone that
covers the mouldering body. and when
that body is incorporated with its, orig
inal dust, and these words Of vanity are
no longer legible, she attempts by es!
cutcheons and pedigrees. and genealo-
gical legends. to perpetpate the name
which wisdom had perhaps consigned to
oblivion. This is, more or lesH the
fsible, this the deformity, this the deep
rooted vice Of all mankind. Pride ap-
pears in the cottage as well aA.in the
palace. She sits on the workman's
bench as we'll as on the monarcRs throuo
She struts driving a hock Of sheep, as
well as narching at the head Of a vic-
torisus army. One great cause Of
wrath and contention and rancour =
moug men, is whose pride has right. to
Indulgence who Is entitled 10 that pre-
eminence, Of which both parties perhaps
are equally unworthy and who is au-
thorised to vindicate that superiority
at which all aspire, but which, the gem
erality refuse to every one but them
selves.