Connecticut western news., 1872-12-06
Fiye.Minute Chats With Young Girls

And now, girls, says bio Lewis, let us return to your dress. In aprevious chat I spoke of one feature of your dress which venture to say must be changed before you can have clear head, good digestion, and healthy liver.
 wish now to speak of the dress of the middle of the body. Every one of us lives in proportion to our breathing. If we breathe strong, we live strong; if our breath is weak our life is weak; the quantity of air we take into our lungs is the measure of our life.
 Now, go with me to tho ball room. Here we are. Notice that couple: they are dancing. Watch them. When they stop observe their breathing. There! he has taken one deep breath, filling all the lower part of his lungs, and now his breathing is quiet. But notice her breathing. See how the upper part of her chest works up and down. Watch her ten minutes. That panting and pumping will go on.
 What do you suppose is the reason for this difference? Do you suppose the Creator made woman's lungs so defi- clent in size that she has to work that way to get her breath? Among young children there is no difference in the breathing of boys and girls. If we visit a farm where persons of both sexes are engaged in outdoor labor. with the same freedom of dress, we shall not find the women breathing in that peculiar way.
 No, the working and pumping of that chest are owing to her dress. The low CT part of the lungs is the large part. There is where most of the breathing should be done. There is where the man does most of his breathing. But she has so squeezed and contracted the lower part of her lungs that very little breath can get down there, so that the small upper end is compelled to do most of her breathing. It is that little upper end which is working away so hard un- der her ribs now. When a lady dances, 1uns, or goes up stairs, she suffers humping of the heart and labored breathing, not because the original con- stitution of her breathing apparatus was 1 faulty, but because she so congresses the lower, larger part of her lungs, that she is like person who has but single lung to breath with. There is lack of breathing room and of course the breath ing is labored.
 With knife on !corset-string, every woman should cry out, "Give me liberty CT give me death!'
 Perfect freedom for lungs, heart, liver and stomach is indispensable to good respiration, circulation and digestion Without such freedom, living is not living, but dying.
 A CASE or CRUELTY.-Col. Freeman tie of the Coldstream guards has fur nished to the London Tunes a cores
 pondence between himself and the Secretary of the Dublin, and Glasgow Steam Packet Company which curiously illustrates the rigid adherence of tn,
 ordinary English official to regulations and his incapacity to discover any cir
 cumstances which might sanction an,
 deviation from them. Corporal Sinclai
 of the guards, while in the last stage O consumption was refused admittance in to the cabin of one of the Glasgow ant ) Dublin steamers, on the ground that i was against the rules of the company t. ) allow cabin passage to non- commis stoned officers or private soldiers so lon, : as they wear the Queens uniform, al though no objection is made to admi } persons of the lowest grade in civilian
 dress. So the unfortunate man wa
 obliged to take steerage passage, tn
 discomforts of which greatly aggravate the mala1y from which he was suffering In reply to remonstrance from Colone Freemantle against this inhumanity, tn Secretary of tho company says tha Corporal Sinclair was informed that i he would cover his uniform with a civi , ian overooat he could obtain Q cabi passage. But as the corporal possesse 5 no such garment, tthe permission was ( little avail, and he became a. victim t red tape. The absurdity of the whol } thing becomes apparent when it is COT | sidered that the shabbiest civilian i England could have obtained on this ot casion what was denied to brave an
 deserving veteran.