, 1874-10-25

made from pine shing1e, With onk splints +
or stoop over in them, and she Thought Wher
there was an ineiinatlon in young G'!ls 1910 SO
| the pine shingle might be Eood thlng. AT an.
rate it would hold them up. but those coiaot'
| had strong broad straps ucfoss the fnouldefs
and were therefore .snp3rior 10 The 1noaern ones
The trouble did not lie 80 much in the corset
iteelf, but in the fact of the manner LII wh'ci
ladies' tiehtencd them in those days
For this the men were responsible. Inc ;t Gen
waist so small that they could span it with thei
! hands This had been the model held up ii
long aa the speaker could roneanber. Allen were
| accountable for this crushing OF vltaJs ~ WON
en- 1t had been their fault. but she dld moi
blame them for their mlAtako nhe felt sorr5
for them, a. they had to bear the consequences
as well aa tho women. In accordance with tble
demand on the part OF the men. the women OF
the earlier period Of which she had spoken bad
| laced, aud laced, and laced, ano Aceo. 1Ae}
! had
TIED THE STRINGS TO BED-rosTs,
had gotten their big brothers to draw on them
until the whist which .was situated over the ribs.
had lapped these ribs over, crushed them ill., and
| torn them loose from the backbone. The doc
| had come, now said to the women, Take Oft
| vo,1r corse:s" Not hut that tie doctors were
| lust as fond of seeing the small waist as any
! other mel. .
! WHICH LEct LQUk tA AA0 CA4ct5k0 SAd01 PAAs
| on the long wasted dress. whale
| boned down. Here Ihey found new
opportunities for squeezing, The waists Of these
dresses had now been brought down until they
| had reaolled the soft plnce below the rlbs Here
I WAS an opportunity to mako themselves smaller,
| and they squeezad, aud squeezed. and squeezed:
Then, to make the waist still smaller, they added
| skirts until they reached as many as ten, .
| yards around. with perfectly straight breadths,
| no Eores to take out the fuitness, OF on the
| ,+t.a. F1ty$s1 a
Of bran, the whole of which dragged on the hips.
| This mode Of dressing beca1no 80 immediately
fatal, itik{led so many women outright, that tue
doctors cried ont again, q Put on your eoFseta
Women's souls have 80 long been in the keep
ing of male priests, their bodies in the Eeeping
Of mule physicians, they have not been allowed
to think or act for themselves, 30 that they are
what men have made them. Men have nodded
us, said Mrs. Swisshelm, and We are yery badly
made. And this reminded Mrs. 6Wlshelm OF
ANOTHER sTo1T-
A class of ragged boys in 4 school had learned
to answer the questionsiu the Cateohism by roto.
Ono day Stranger entered to examine them b1lt
unfortunately tho boy who was always 1t tho
asked, "Who made you:" and the boy answered,
s.The dust of the earth" "Oh, mol" was the
ramonstrance, "God made you" mo" was
the response, o the boy that God n1ado iAn't
here" And as Mrs. 6wiselem looked around
her audience she couldn't zee single
AAAs>>
them. They were ali as men had nodded
them. God had made them with Waists so large
(making circle with her arms and hands). and
man had made them with waists 30 large (not1nT
tue circumference with her fingers and thunoo).
The corsets that women wore without any ssrnI's
reminded the speaker Of the three I7sh1nen who
wanted to get the shadow of the moon out OF
the well, thinking it cheese. Tho first took
hold OF the wiudlass; the second graaped bis
fact, and the third suspended himself from the
FIR nf fbia Tina Paddy
hIo'e his hand us'n seriously SO 90 hs ss'A'A cried
ont to the man below: Hou!d On there. Jamie,
till eilpit on hands" He Let go for that pur-
were like the 1rishsnen, when Paddy's hands ahove
were removed from the windlass. Thero was
nothing to support them. or tho clothes su5-
peudcd from them, and tue: all went down in
the same way. Corsets had been worn without
straps until
IT HAD BECOME MURDER.
About gears ago it seemed as II some re-
form would be mado in this mauncr, corhets laid
aside and dresses made free and easy. Who did
the ladies present suppose had come to the
rescue OF the corsets ? The women who wore
them tue mantua-nakerB who desired them to
fit dresses over. the storckeepers who sold rhem,
or the manufacturers who earned money out Of
the mailing Of them? Noue Of these; but no less
. pc.son than Prof. William s. Draper. our
greatest authority on physiological science,
man who hnd written standard works on the
physiological causes which mold the race he
took the ground that womans clothing should
be surported from the waist. lie wrote scr-
cral articles in tho Gaia1y supporting his
theory. He gave tlls reason Tor his
belief, that men breathe below the diaphragm,
aud women above it." The reason for the latter,
Mrs SwiHshclrn remarked, WAS because women
were so frightened up by their clothing that they
could uot breath naturally, as men do. Prot.
Draper upheld his opinion by numerous quota
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