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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
The Ignorant Man Who Rescued
CorSetS.

The advantage of the corset is that it
distributes the pressure of the strings
and bandE over a larger surface, and so
this pressure is not so soon fatal. Well,
four years ago, the evils of this press
ure had become SO apparent, and so
much had been said about the better
way of supporting the clothing on the
shoulders, that cOrsets seemed to be in
danger of discard when, who would
you suppose came to its rescue? Not
the mantua-makers, who could not fit
dress without them not the women
who wore them, not the merchants who
made money by selling them, nor the
wealthy firms who coined 1t by making
them, but William Draper, professor of
physiology, esteemed the highest au-
thOrity on physical causes which mold
the race. He wrote two elaborate ar
ticles, and, in these articles, taught dis
tinctly, specifically and earnestly, that
the only proper point in the female fig
ure on which to support clothing is the
hips, Just as the shoulders are in the
male, because women do not breathe
below the diaphraghm, and men do
Ye gods and William Draper! How /
did stare, and read and reread these
fateful articles in which I saw the
death-warrant of thousands He elab-
GRATED and illustrated his opinion by
specifying that weight on the pretty
shoulders of women would drag them
down, and crush the lungs placed under
their protection. He did not explain
what kind of hinge a woman's shoulder
bones are hung upon which permits
this dangerous descent, or in what par
ticular the bones in a mans shoulder
differ from those in a woman's but he
urged the propriety and healthfulness
of pressure around woman's body by
quoting the belt, or girdle, worn by
gladiators f; the scripture phrase,
Gird up your loins as preparatory
to hard work; the custom of athletes
and blacksmiths in drawing a band
tightly around the body, below the ribs,
when about to make an unusual exer-
ton. He urged the retention of the
present style, on the ground that it cor
responded with the costume of women
in ancient Greece, where, he assumed,
the clothing was all supported on the
hips by a girdle, on which he held the
corset to be a vast Improvement. In
short, this great physical scientist wrote
out most elaborate certificate of mas
culine ignorance in what most concerns
the physical well-being of women-a
certificate as full, explicit and conclu-
sive as that since given by DR.. Clarke in
his "Sex in Education ;" as full of
physical ignorance as Goodwin Smiths
"Female Suffrage" is of mental and
moral darkness. .-lfrS. Jane q. S1UisS.
helm.
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Industrious Italy.

Charles Warren Stoddard writes to
the San Francisco Chronicle "It has
become custom to speak of the Ital-
ians as "lazy" or " shjftless," and to
apply to them several other unpleasant
epithets; I am afraid l have indulged
in this pernicious habit myself, and
here, before it is too late, wish to do
what I can to rectify the error. Proba-
bly, in no country in the world are the
people more universally industrious.
Begging, the most disagreeable feature
of their civilization, is also the most OBJ
strusive, yet there may be some excuse
for this. Begging is kind of industry;
the vast multitude of lame, halt, and
blind in Italy cannot work the people
are for the most part miserably poor
where nearly every able-bodied man,
woman, and child is employed in some
sort of industry there is nothing left
for some of the willing hands to do. In
Naples, the city of the LGzz0TO1ai, who
are the embodiment of all that is pro-
vokingly amiable and hopelessly indo-
lent, nearly every woman one meets of
the poorer class is either spinning with
an antique, primitive distaff, or knitting,
or busying herself about something
the men are off at work even the chill
dren are occupied in some way. have
seen a youngster of six years running at
the heels of a donkey nearly as small as
his driver and beating the beast with an
enthusiasm worthy of a better cause,
while his little brother, three or four
years his senior, skrieked at the top of
his lungs a catalogue of the wares these
little itinerant merchants had to sell.
There was lately work Of excavation
going on in the neighborhood of my
hotel at Naples, and the whole work
was done by company of ten or
dozen boys, the eldest of whom could
not have been more than sixteen years
of age. All along the road to Castella,
mare women are in the field doing mems
work women hoe the potatoes and reap
the grain with sickles women draw
water from the shallow wells with their
buckets hooked to old fashioned cranes.
! have seen them at work by the hour
dipping water and pouring it into the
trenches that feed the cutters in their
gardens. This seems to be the only |
method of irrigation known to them, |
and it is very slow and fatiguing work. |
In all the factories you find large pro-
portion of young boys. The little girls |
knit. string beads, sell flowers, and bun
dies of grass )r fodder and one might |
almost say with truth that the Italians !
are the most industrious people in the |
world. IF the children have been de- |
MED schooling in books, they have all |
learned how to make themselves useful, |
and are therefore comparatively inde |
pendent at the age of twelve"
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The Cremation Case.

Moncure ID. Conway writes from
London to the Cincinnati Commercial
The sensational account of the crema-
tion of The body of Lady Dixie, which
has, see, gone the rounds in America as
here, requires but little examination TO
show its apocryphal character. The
furnace used at Dresden, and the in
tense heat around II, admits of no such
minute inspection of the process of COM
bustion as is Indicated in the paragraph
that profeHses to describe it. The
twelve responsible persons who were
present at the event engaged solemnly
not to disclose the details, and there is
no reason to believe that they have
broken their word. The paragraph has
evidently been written by an opponent
so, at least, the London Lancet be-
ieves-to try and produce in the
public mind a revulsion against the
process. No dead person could
have been required for experiment /;
dead animal would have served
as we'll, and experiments have SO
been made at Dresden and elsewhere,
which have shown that cremation is de-
cent, swift, and free from any Unpleas-
ant effects on the senses. Lady Dixie
was one of considerable number of
persons who, since the agitation of this
subject, have made provision for having
their bodies burned after death. The
fear of premature burial has been shown
to be much more widespread than the
fear of not being pieced together prop
erly at the sound of the archangel's
trumpet; and that popular apprehcn-
sion, along with certain unpleasant asso.
Citations with underground composition,
may yet give the cremationists the vic
tory over superstitions about bodily res
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Recent.Assyrian Discoveries.

We may see numerous black stones
in the British museum, which record
the sale and purchase of particular
lands, and the most terrible curses are
invoked upon the heads of those who
should iniure and destroy these evil
dences of the ownership of property.
One of them, lately found by Mr..
Smith, tells us that the ground men
toned in it was bestowed by the king
upon q sort of pOet-laureate, on &C.
count of some panegyrics he had writ
ten upon the kingdom. Still more
plentiful than these are private CON
tract tablets, often in an outer coating
of clay, on which an abstract of the con-
tents of the inner tablet is stamped.
MANY of them are pierced with holes,
through which strings were passed at
tached to leaves of papyri. The latter
have long since perished the papyrus
was used by the Accadians as writing
material at remote date, although the
more durable clay tablets were prefer
red. The mercantile class seems to
have consisted chiefly of Semites, rather
than of Accadams and if we want to
find the fullest development of business
and commerce we must come down to
the eighth and seventh centuries b. O.,
when Nineveh was a bustling centre of
trade. Tyre had been destroyed by the
Assyrian kings, and trade had transfer
red itself further to the east. Car
chemish, which was favorably situated
near the Euphratf s, was the meeting
place of the merchants of all nations,
and the "manch of Carchemish" be-
came the standard of weight, Houses
and other pro- erty, including slaves,
were bought and sold and the careful
ness with which the deeds of sale or
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
A. T. Stewards Mistake.

1t is now understood that Alex. l..
Stewart has altogether relinquished the
idea of devoting the great iron build
ing in Fourth avenue, begun several
years ago, and long under roof, TO its
original purpose of a working women's
home. He is said to have discovered
the plan to be impracticable, for work
ing-women would not enter it under
such restrictions as are necessary. He
tried to induce the women in his retail
establishment to agree to go there, when
the building should be completed, and
they fatty refused. He is reported to
be bitterly disappointed at the result,
because the home was a benevolent
scheme he had long cherished. The
building, with the real estate, has cost
him half a million dollars. Nothing
has been done on it for months, the cause
being mysterious, since everybody knows
Stewart has abundance of money 70 go
on with the work if so inclined. He is
now at a loss what TO put the structure
to. He thinks Of finishing it end rent
ing it as a hotel, but the location is not
favorable. The stories are unfounded
that he had abandoned the undertaking
for the reason that it would not pay him
as we'll as he had thought. His inten-
tion was to charge only a nominal price
to the women-iust enough to preserve
their feeling of independence. As the
home was the only benevolent scheme
Mr.. Stewart has ever embarked in, its
failure is considered particularly unfor-
tunate. e.-NeW York Telegram.
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Reduction of Obesity.

An exchange says "Obesity is made
the subject of an interesting article in
the journal des Commissioners Medi.
Gales, by Corlieu. DR.. Banting's sys-
tenn of cure consists, as is pretty gen
orally known, in abstaining from bread,
butter, milk. sugar, and potatoes
taking about five ounces of beef, NUT
ton, fish, or bacon for breakfast, with a
large cup of tea without either milk or
sugar, and with an ounce biscuit or
toast for dinner, about six ounces of
any fish except salmon of any kind of
meat exclusive of pork, and any vege-
tables save potatoes. Game, fowls, pud-
ding, champagne, port, beer, forbidden.
Another method is described in the ar
ticle before us as tried by physician,
DIR. Philbert, who was himself the pa
tient. At the age of twenty-six he
weighed three hundred and ten
pounds, and measured four feet ten
inches round the abdomen. His sleep
heavy, his appetite ard digestion were
good. Having placed himself under
the care of DR.. SCHNEIDER at Marienbad,
Bohemia, he treated him as follows ::
Get up at six IN the morning from half
past six to seven take three glasses
(six ounces each) of the Kreutzbrunn
Spring from half past seven to eight,
two boiled eggs, a cup of tea, and
roll ; from nine to ten, vapor bath
daily, the first perspiration being fol.
lowed by friction with a gloved hand and
a cold dOuche the second by rubbing
with a soft fesh-blush: the third by
with a bundle of poplar
twigs with their leaves on, then a second
douche of cold water. On leaving the
bath, rubbing the body with vinegar
After the bath, a walk. At eleven A. NJ.
two dishes of meat or fish, one of
boiled fruit without sugar,
half bottle of wine, and two small
rolls. From noon to six, q permanent
stay in the forest surrounding the town,
walk as much as possible without fa-
tigue. At six, a dish of cold meat,
boiled fruit as above, half a bottle of
wine, and roll Of bread. A walk. af-
ter this dinner. At eight, shampooing
with soap; half an hour later, to bed.
Morning and evening, five alkaline
pills. The treatment lasted six weeks,
at the end of which time he had lost
pounds. He then continued
the cure at home with the Mariendad
waters for a fortnight. and afterwards
went to FOntainebleau in order to eat
two pounds of grapes, gathered on the
spot, every morning fasting. At the
end of four months he had reduced his
weight to two hundred and fifty-six
pounds, and has since come down to
one hundred and eighty pounds, enjoy
ing excellent health" "
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04

"What is there more beautiful than
road ?" asks George Sand in "Con-
suelo," that delightful story of happy
life, wandering at the roads will. A
road is the symbol and image of an ac-
tive and varied existence. The free
path seems to fleet on and hide itself in
the woods, inviting and alluring the
way-farer to follow its windings and
penetrate its mysteries. It is nobody's
property no one can close il, or narrow
it. The sky seems always open in front
of the traveller by road, and as far as
the view extends it is land of liberty.
This is perhaps the charm of the life of
the tramp; read always has the air of
leading to some place where fortune
may await the wanderer, or where new
beauties will display themselves to the
eye of the artist GA merry heart goes
all the day" on the road, but it re-
quires the spirits of extreme youth to
have a merry heart in a train.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Improvement of the English Railway
Svsteuu

The Midland railway company, whose
rails run from London through Bed.
fordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire.
Lancashire and Yorkshire to Scotland,
was the first last year to attach third
| class c 5rriages to all its trains, the con-
sequence of which is thaHths receipts
from third-class traffic have risen enor-
monsly but, on the other hand, the sec.
ond-clasa have considerably decreased,
SO the company is about to try great
scheme, no less than the abolition of
second class carriages and the reduction
of first class fares. This, at first sight,
seems a great boon to the travelling
community, bot on looking into it it is
found to be virtually the abolition of
the first class. The people who have
been accustomed to ride. second class
Will now be compelled tosiSffsS the supe-
rior carriages, more especially as they
can do so at a comparatively small in
crease of expense, and thus the great
boon of first-class travel, the space, the
quieS, and the freedom from intrusion,
will be entirely done away with. Equal
ity is nowhere more out of place than in
travelling, and so long as extra comforts
and luxuries can be had by paying fer
them there will be plenty only too will
ing to secure them. The introduction
of drawing room cars on the American
lines and the great use made of these
cars by the wealthier portion of the
travelling public is a proof of this, It
is to be hoped that our other railway
companies will not follow the lead of
the Midland, but if they do it will in
evitably lead to the introduction of
palace cars or their equivalent.
Another alteration in our railway
management is the establishment on the
Metropolitan railway of carriages for
"ladies only" This is an adoption of
the danes 8eaILe8 idea with which we
are all familiar on continental railways,
and is said to have been necessitated by
the behavior of men who make it
practice of travelling by the under
ground line for the purpose of offering
offensive familiarities to women. It is
not probable that the plan will succeed
here, for the underground trains scarce
ly stop more than q minute at each
station, and there is enormous difficulty
in selecting the carriages of the class
for which you have ticket, so great is
the tbrong and confusion the selection
of special compartment will therefore
be almost impossible. One will be curl
GUS to see the style of ladies who avail
themselves of the new regulation. In
the carriages for danes Se1iles in France
never recollect seeing any but the
oldest, the plainest and the most unin-
viting of the sex.-L0ndOn Cor. N. Y.
Herald.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
The Trade in Chinese Women.

Congressman Page, who is now in
Washington, has just received import
ant affidavits of Rev. Otis Gibson, E. l..
Simmons and Ira M. Condoit, all for
many years resident in China, and now
engaged in missionary work among the
Chinese in San Francisco for the Metho-
dist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches,
certifying that they have personal
knowledge that regular system of i'm
portation of and traffic in Chinese wo-
men for the purposes of prostitution
exists in China and California, and that
at least nine-tenths of all the Chinese
women in California are owned, bought
and sold 'or vile purposes, there being
three thousand such in San Francisco
alone. Mr.. Gibson furnishes an original
bill of sale of one of these transactions
IN the Chinese language, and gives the
English translation, showing the re-
markably open manner in which this
slave traffic is conducted. These affida-
speaker of the California assembly, to
be brought to the attention of congress
by Mr.. Page, with a view to securing
federal Legislation to prevent further
importations of this kind, it having been
held by the United States courts in
California that the state laws enacted
for the purpose are unconstitutional.
President Grant, in recent converse
ton on this subject, expressed the opin-
ion that such importations are in VIOLA
tion Of the spirit of the treaty with China,
but he did not say he believed the treaty
was directly violated thereby, nor did
he give any assurance, as has been in
correctly stated, that he would call at
tention to the subject in his forthcoming
message.-SprinQtfeLd Repu6Lican.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
A CHASTITY Pun.

Some years ago, when cannibalism
was in vogue among the South Sea Is
landers, an English man-of-war put into
one of the FIJI group. Among the party
who went ashore was an assistant surgeon
named Ben JonsOn-a fat and per.
verse person, Who was always quarreling
with a young midshipman named Man.
ners. There were two boats and aH
the surgeon, who had wandered off
from the party when they landed, had
not rejoined them when they were
ready to return to the ship, they put off
without him, but left one OF the boats
so that he might follow. The captain
was annoyed and q little alarmed at
their temperance without Jonson, and
instantly dispatched a boats crew,
under Manners, in search OF the missing
officer. They found his body in the
midst of a number of savages who were
just preparing to devour him, but who
fed ot the sight of the sailors. The
poor fellow was not half cooked. A
grave was soon made for the underdone
remains of the unfortunate Jonson,
while Manners set up board TO mark
thr spot, upon which he managed TO cut
a single sentence with his penkDife un-
observed. The captain was shocked on
hearing of the dreadful occurrence, and
determined TO go ashore and take a last
look at the resting-place Of the ill-star-
red officer but when he got a glimpse
of the epitaph or inscription on the
board he was constrained to turn away
to hide his face from all present for
there, in large letters and deeply cut,
stood the sentence, 40 rale Ben JON
son z"
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A Pleasant Little Farce.

The Tower of London is locked up
every night at eleven o'clock. AS the
clock strikes that hour the yeoman por-
ter, clothed in long red cloak, bearing
a bunch of keys, and accompanied by a
warder carrying lsntern, stands at the
front of the great guard-house and calls
ont, "Escort keys" The sergeant of
the guard and five or six men then
turn out and follow him to the gate,
each sentry challenging as they pass
with "Who goes there?" the answer
being Keys" The gates being care
fully locked and barred, the procession
returns, the sentries exacting the same
explanation and receiving the same an
swer as before. Arrived once more at
the front of the main guard-house, the
sentry gives a loud stamp of his foot
and asks, "Who goes there ?" "Keys. "
"WhOse keys?" "Queen Victoria's
keys" "Advance Queen Victoria's
keys and all's we'll" The yeoman por-
ter then calls out, "God bless Queen
Victoria" To which the guard re-
spends Amen" The officer on duty
gives the word, present arms" and
kisses the hilt of his sword, and The
yeoman porter then marches alone
across the parade and deposits the keys
in the lieutenant's lodgings,
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Detroit Police Court.

"I don't think this world has any
further use for you," remarked his
honor after taking a long look at the
prisoner. "I see you haven't any get
up-and-vote- twice in your nature, and
your character has been allowed TO
tumble around until you feel like an
old omnibus horse" 'Dont abuse
me" replied the prisoner in mournful
voice. "But it annoys me to see big,
fat hulk of a loafer idling away his life
and chewing apple-rinds to keep from
starvation. I'd get under pile-driver,
go to sleep on a railroad track or walk
off the wharf before I'd drag ont such
a life. However, it's no use talking TO
you. Consider yourself elevated fol
three months, and when that's ont come
back for some more. Free Press.