Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-14
For the VERMONT FARMER
Some Plain Talk.

Some Plain Talk.
think our friend Edith is rather too easy
with corset wearers, not but that she has
some very good ideas. and correct in meas
ure, but does not tell half there is to tell. Cor
sets do add to some persons forms, but they
ought to be willing 10 submit to what their
Creator has formed rather than sacrifice all
else. If they would wear those that are in
tended for support to skirts, and wear them
for that purpose, and not lace them as tight
as possible, they would be a benefit rather
than an injury MS they now are.
Women need support Of some kind. 1t
must be very injurious to them 10 have such
II weight Of clothes hanging upon their hips
with no other support. They not only carry 1t
10 such terribly intolerable excess, lacing SO
tight rs to draw their forms all out of
shape, (natural shape,) but they must draw
them a little tighter and little tighter UNI
til their bodies are so small they can be COM
passed by a mans two hands. Where are
their ribsP they are driven together until
they lap some inches; they must be deform-
ed terribly inside.
And where are their souls? enclosed with
in that little circle? certainly they must be
very small souls; yet they are rs incorrig-
BILE as the winds, though they suffer excru-
ciating pain necessarily; they think they
must have an antique form, small feet, white
hands, lots Of gold rings. false hair, rats. &c
These will draw the opposite sex TO our side
and then we can choose from many suitors,
think they. There are some that are en-
trapped and find out too late that they have
a wife with no life, energy, vitality,-a small
soul and but little affection for her hus-
band. What life must that man live!
life of misery and disappointment. Wha
was the cause of all this? We would say EN-
phatically, "corsets." How can they DO RENE
died1 We will here give some facts in thu
matter with statistics from DIR. Trail.
Each structure and organ is provided will
all the room necessary for its functiona
purposes, but no more. Nature is a rigid
economist. She never wastes. She pro
vides the machinery of life, and the condi
tions for its normal operation. Obey the
law and live; dsobey and die-these arr
her lrrepealable mandates. The vital or
gans have definite relations to everything IN
the universe. Observe and conform to thes'
relations and be well; disregard them and
suffer. Such is the stern teaching of ma
lures volume, but it is also benevolent. L
laws can be disregarded with IMMUNITY
they are practically annulled and exist il
vain. Nature commits no error in tn
enactment of laws,a provides no remedie
for their infraction. Suffering is inevitable
so long rs we act in disobedience to the law
inherent in the vital organism. Unless THU
were so we could never learn to obey the
laws. Experience may BIO dear school
The penalties for transgression may be ter
rible. But neither is too costly or severe un
Ill it teaches us the greatest practical truti
that the human mind is capable of compre
hendlng, that all good is in the line o
obedience to organic law, and all evil IN OPP
position thereto. Cease to do evil and learI
to do welln IN all things, is the divine phi.
losophy, and applicable TO every department
OF human life; in few things are human be-
ings more prone to do evil and more regard
less OF all health considerations than in re
spect TO bodily positions.
1t is evident that II the body is habituall
bent so as to approximate the heart AM
stomach, or if the chest is restricted by lac
ing, so as to lessen the diameter of the ches
In the region Of the diaphragm, every orgal
of the thoracic and abdominal cavities
more or less compressed, and most of then
actually displaced.
The horrid effects Of tight lacing quite a
ruinous to young ladies as tobacco using !
10 young men), or of lacing at all, and Q
binding the clothing around the hips instea,
of suspending 1t from the shoulders, can new
er be fully realized without a thorough edu
cation in anatomy and physiology.
II is obvious that If the diam eter Of tn
chest, at its lower and broader part, is d
minishod by lacing or any other cause L
the extent of one-fourth or one-half, tn
lungs are pressed in towards the heart. til
lower ribs are drawn together and press o
tho liver and spleen, while the abdomina
organs arc pressed downward on the pelvi
vscera. The stomach is compressed In il
TRAVERSE diameter; the stomach, upper IN
testnes, and liver are pressed downward O
the kidneys and on the lower portions Of tn
bowels, while the bowels AFRO crowded dow
ON the uterus and bladder. Thus every vita
organ is either functionally INSTRUCTED O
mechanically disordered, and disease. NOR
or less aggravated, the condition OF all. Ii
post norton examinations the liver has bee
found deeply indented by tho constant an,
prolonged pressure Of the ribs, conseq uenc
of tight lacing.
The braln-organ, protected by a bony In
, closure, has not yet been distorted externa
ly by tho contrivances Of nilliners and man
. tua-makers; but lacing the chest. by inter
| rupting the circulation Of the blood, prevent
its free return from the vessels OF the brai
, and SO permanent congestion Of that orga
> with constant liability to headache, vertig,
J or worse affections becomes second nj
ture."
, The vital resources Of evory person, an
, all available powers OF mind and body, nj
measurable by the respiration. Precisel
l as the breathing is lessend the length Of Iii