Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-01-11
WONIaN'S DRESS.
BY HELEN c. LEWIS.

| BY HELEN G. LEWIS.
A healthy dress permits every organ in
the body to perform its functions untram-
melled. The fashionable style does not
allow this free action of the vital parts
and hence the present feeble, crippled
condition of the women of America
This evil, together with other physiologi-
cal errors, is doing much to shorten the
lives of our women and compromise the
health and life of the whole American
race.
To avert these sad results and to i'm
prove the health of our women generally,
it is proposed that the following style of
dress be universally adopted. This dress
has been worn by the writer nearly nine
years, and she is happy to say it has
saved her from consumptive's grave, to
which she was slowly but surely tending.
The waist should be several inches
larger than the body. A little shorter
than the present fashion, and full in front
that the chest may enjoy the frecst action.
The bands of the skirts should be much
larger than the body, buttons to be placed
! on the band of the inside skirt, Just as
they are on gentleman's pants for sus-
p9ndcrs, and the same elastic susrenders
worn, crossing behind. Make button
holes in the bands of the other skirts to
correspond with the buttons on tie inside
skirt, and button on; thus one pair of
suspcnders will carry three ormore skirts.
This style of dress is attended by no dis
comfort to the wearcr, and allows full
action to the body. AT the same time it
is sufficiently fashionable to escape OBJ
.servation. Of course corSetS should NEVER
be worn. And with the skirts supported
as above described, there is no apolC gy for
wearing them.
Whaleboncs have no business in woman's
dress. They spoil all that beauty of out
line which Powers and other great artists
have found in the natural woman. They
interfere not less with that peculiar un-
dulating action of the chest and abdomen
which results from the normal action of
the thoracic and abdominal viscera. And
if the waist be short and loose as advised
above, there will be no need of whale5ones
c to keep it down.
God knew what he was doing when he
made the human body, and made it Just
s right in every way; and we cannot alter
its shape without destroying its beautiful
symmetry, and causing disease and pre-
: mature death.-Leacis' Neao Gymnastics.
THE PHILOSOPHER AND THE CHILD.
A philosopher once asked little ri
: if she had soul. She looked up into his
face with an air oflastonishment and Of
Tended dignity, and replied, ITO be sure
: | have what makes you think you
: have" Because | have" she promptly
replied. But how do you know you have
a soul % Because do KNOW" she an
swered again. twas child's reason ;
but the philosopher could hardly have
given better. "Wcll then" said he af.
u ter a moments consideration, 'if you know
u you have soul, can you tell me what
: your soul is?' why said she, Il am
II six years old, and don't you suppose that
l. | know what my soul is?' Perhaps you
u do. If you will tell me, shall find out
IS whether you do or not" "Then you think
G / don't know" she replied, "but do il
; is my THINK" "Your think r said tn,
philosopher astonishcd in his turn; '.wht
told you SOP "Nobody. | should b,
u ashamed if did not know that, withou
n being told The philosopher had puz
n zled his brain a good deal about the soul
!. but he could not have given better def
milton Of it in SO few words.
!, 81 "Come in, Joe, and let's take
drink "No, Thomas, can't afford it.
d But Joe I'll pay for it." "0h, I'm no
speaking of the loss of money, Thomas
J. Int of loss of health and enerov mora