The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1855-12-20
asgSplrtt Misrslluug. s. s.
Tight and Unsupported Dress.

The folly, the wickedness the slow MUIR
der of tightlacing, have often been expos
ed By the press, and yet, in ordor to be
Sin fashion," many ladies still continue
to perpetrate the cruel suicide. We can
do no more than to warn them again and
again of the awful penalty that is sure
changeable laws.
But another folly almost universally
practiced by females-the injurious effects
of which are not so well understood
should also be exposed and censured.-
1t is best to talk plain in these matters con-
cerning health and life. The ladies, if
they appreciate their own welfare, will
thank US for it,
There is no doubt that much of the i'll
health of females is caused by the load of
warm clothing they wear, the only snp-
port of which is the hips. Thus they are
subjected to continueddrayginy weight,
to- ether with a continual pressure on the
body, and that, too where there are no
bones to resist the tightness. The abdo
men being thus compressed, the breathing,
instead OF being full, is only partial The
lungs, instead of being inflated through
Their whole extent, are only expanded in
the upper part--the blood is imperfectly
purified, and the results are tullnesS
about the head, an a ''dead" pain almost
continually. The lower portion of the
lungs, from want of use, become so tender
If we may use the word-that instead
of being invigorated, the individual posi-
lively endures pain from full inspiration.
Many ladies have seen the foolishness of
such course, and instead of wearing
thei skirts unsupported, use brsces that
the support may come on their shoulders,
where it should be.
Nor are ladies the monopolists of this
system OF torture and wicked folly. A CO.
temporary remarks, that years ago men
would not have thought it possible to wear
pantaloons hanging to their hips; but we
are in an age that likes change, even
though it be sometimes for the worse
Look, dear Sir, at your boys-at the boys
and young men you meet, and see if three
fourths of them do not wear their panta-
looms without suspenders--see if their
young and tender forms are not tightly
compressed with belt, or their pantaloons
drawn to an almost torluring tightness
with strap or buckle. And yet you ex-
pect that nature, interfered with in this
manner, is to perform her functions as
well as if left free to act as God intended
You expect full breathing when the lungs
have no room to act--that the blood will
be purified when the lungs do not expand
to their proper extent-and wonder why
children, with this foul blood penetrating
their delicate brains, have headaches
!. WY, Sir, the wonder, and the only won
ls 70 us is. that they are not thus cursed
all tie time, No wonder that we see pu-
ny boys WI e1*their breathing is stopped
and the circdiation impeded. No won
der that the race is said to be degenera-
ting. We enter our indignant protest a
gainst this numbering of the innocent
Give them the same chances for life that
you had yourselves, fathers, and our word
for it, the children will do well enough;
but grant us a happy release from this
practice of COMPRISING the form of the
tender child, and dragging down his poor
hips by unsupported clothing.-Troy
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