Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-07-21

waist OF modern BELLE after long course Of
training. "a single glance" says tho author. evil
show better than many pages Of argument what
havoc tight laciug must produce in the delicate !
and complicated mechanism lodged within the Chest
Another effect OF tight corse,s, he further OBJ
serves, ais that those who have been long 50
closely laced become a, last unable TO hold them
selves erect, or move with comfort without them,
hut very Justly said fall together in consequence
OF the natural form and position OF the ribs being altered
The muscles OF the back are weakened and Crippled
and cannot maintain themselves in their natural position
for any length Of time. The spine, too. longer
cusomed bear the destined weight OF the body, bends
and sinks down Where tight lacing is pracced, young
from fifteen to twenty years OF age are found
dependent upon their corse,s that they faint When
ever they lay aside, and therefore, are obliged TO
have themselves laced before going 10 sleep. For
soon as the lhorsx and abdomen relaxed. by being
deprived oil their usual support the blood rushing down
wards, in consequence of the diminished resistance TO
It's notion cinptles the vessels OF the heal an Thus
ca-ions fainting. "-"From 1860 10 abnu l17o, II
the fashion i'm Berlin, and other parts OF Germany, and
also in Holland few years To- apply corset 20 chill
drcn. This practice tell no duse in OF us
being observed that children who did
strait, while those who treated with this
extraordinary care rot by II high shoulder or bunch
Many families might be named, in which parental ioni-
selected the handsomest OF several boys pu, in
corsels and the result that these alone hunc
ed The deforn,ity attributed at first to the mpro
per mode of applying tho corset till il discovered
that child thus Invested grew up straight not men
lion the risk OF consumption and rupture which was
likewise incurred by using them al (says Soemnering)
for my part affirm, that do not know any who,
ny facing ny ans, has OBTAIN
ed ga fine figure, in whom could not, by ex-
animation. point out either high shoulder, oblique,
compressed rbs, lateral incarnation OF the spine
the form of an Italic s. other distortion have
bad opportunities OF verifying this opinion among ladies
OF high condition. who, models of I'm. form. were
brought forward for the purpose Of puing to sic
lence. "''One is astonshej," says Soemmeripg. cat
the number OF diseases which occasion Those
have subjoiue1 rest the authority OF the most eminent
physicians Tight lacing produces in the head: head
ache, giddness, tendency to nting pain in the eyes
PAIN anu ringing IN the anu bleeding al The
In the thorax-Besidcs the displacement of the bones
and the injury done to the breast tight lacng produces
shorness OF breath, splitting of blood consumption de-
rangement oil the circulation palpitaon OF the heart
and water in the chest. In the abdomen-loss of ap-
petite squeamishness eructations, vomiting of blood
deprsvei digestion hauiencc. diarrhn collie pains, i'm.
duration of the liver, dropsy and rupture IL is also
followed by melancholy, hystera. and many disease:
peculiar TO the female constitution, which i, is not
TO inform the ladies' that according our medical in
structor the red pointed which CLOVIS rather inaus
pciously, female faces, is in many the
consequence Of tight lacng."
Reclamation Of Frozen Hsh.-In winter tile Ca.
nadan fishermen erect huts the ice of the lakes and
rivers, and, cutting hole the ice, enclose il with a
screen OF straw, SC TO shelter themselves from the cold
wind Sitting inside the screen, they sink their hook:
through the hole made in the ice Amongst the othei
hsh 50 caught are perch in abundance. After hauling
them up, II thrown aside the ice they speedily be
come frozen quite hard. They then take them home
and place them in near a fire; in short time
fms first CULVER the sills open the fish gradually turns
itself on its belly, moves at first slowly about the basin
and at last completely revves and swms brskly about
Erdil. ". Phil Jour