Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-30

uOOtOT WHO encourages tne use OF COfbetS -
no more fit to treat a woman for her special
diseases than a Hottentot or a full-grown
gorilla. That doctor who said corsots were
not unhealthy If not worn tight; do not
believe in lacing," hung out his shingle in
very prudent way. but he wisely inserted that
little subjunctive sign 6 | think that doc
tor knows that not woman with corsots on
can throw back her shoulders aud initiate
her lungs fully; hence not woman that
wears them but wears them too tight. Ply
sicians know that many women only half
breathe; consequently half live, physically
speaking. Men are rare that cramp their
vitals in this way, or indulge In perversions
of dress as injurious.
Tight lacing is resorted TO TO produce abor-
ton. The crime is not always successful,
but usually both parties are more or less in
jured, and sometimes fearfully, fatally. In
stances: l am now thinking Of little Mabelle
s., remarkably bright interesting little
girl of six years. Her little brother Eddy,
eight years old, has the same black eyes Of
his winsome little sister, but there is no fire
in them, and the sparkle Lof intellect never
lights up his countenance; there is no STAN
ina to his constitution, and no elasticity, like
his tall, 1.-the sister. lie is an inferiority, an
underling for life. And there are many
such instances throughout the United States
These are facts. Surely wish il were a
fact that not half the wives or daughters
(of farmers even) ever saw corset"
Just rs though woman had not mind
enough of her own to leave off all these ex-
ira ings if she did not want them on, but
had got to put them on to be in fashionr'
Woman has mind enough, rightly developed,
for our bencfcent Creator never leaves his
part of the work half endowed. But she,
also, has sensitiveness and love of approval
she does not enjoy being singularity in So
ciety, an exception. When child recol-
lect being at sewing circle, and hearing
the ladies talk aud laugh and joke about the
crinolne. They wound up the subject by
seriously avowing they should never be
seen in hoops" Before the summer had
passed each of those ladies had donned that
article, and in few months more not one oil
them would have been seen Mt the home
breakfast table without her crinoline.
But now people appear mt public assem-
blies, everywhere, in very diminutive di.
mansions. 1t is fact that fashion does
change a woman's mind fashion causes a
woman to put on and to put off. Some years
ago who would have entered church with
the hair falling in flood over the back ant
and shoulders? "a very natural, sensible
way of wearing the hair, only shorter, and
tastefuly ribboned back.) But fashion has
said bag the hair into waterfall, and it wa,
done; this SIREN has whispered, braid anC
puff, and load and switch the hair, and draw
on the capillary tubes like incisors. And j
is not the majority Of young women tina
have not obeyed, as far as my knowledge
extends.
few years ago any lady felt well dressed
in plain skirt, but now women are in thu
minority who would feel quite at ease n
any kind of party without either an over
skirt, polonaise or redingote, and complies
trimming on one and usually on both
Many woman, more especially mothers
working early and late, weary and worn
have exclaimed: "Oh, these everlasting fix
ms! shall be glad when so many fussing
are out of fashion," Fashion is to say tn
word tCheR to put off. No matter how care
worn. woman does put on what she does no
want on, but puts them on 10 be IN fashion
And our American people are involved /
this slavedom more than any other natio
save perhaps France. ID. e. Eddy in hi
work entitled Europa" says, 81 saw Quee
! Victoria at the crystal palace, and she wa
there dressed less gaudily than ladies sa'
last sabbath in our city--Lowell." Anothe
r writer has said that waiting maids of Amer
lean ladies dressed much more expensivel
f than duchesses. Royalty and aristocracy Sc
5 the plebians of Columbia good example
8 The German people are still palmer tina
Q the Britons in dress, while as n nation the
a with Prussans take the front rank in science
= literature. and general education. Matte
: does not reign in our Anglo-Saxon relative.
And the United States will yet be delivere
q from this thralldom Of frivolity.
f A friend returned from Europe by way O
: California lately remarked: "Some Of you
New England and New York girls ovel
dress. They put on so many trinkets aroun
their necks and their wrists, and so man
furbelows on their dresses and their hat
. that they remind me of those Chinese cir
e OF California. / saw one on the street tn
r morning that if had been in San Francisc
: should have known was an imported Oh
= nese. Occasionally we see people dresse
c in admirable taste, good material, and tn
attire fitting and falling in graceful lint
s over the person, with just enough trimmin
r to relieve, and just enough bright. becomin
h color to present sunny atmosphere. Sue
i persons are as refreshing to lock at as II
5 first sweet violets offspring. Human instin
It instantly bows to such woman, and a
y knowledges the presence of good taste, r.
If finement, and susceptibility. And the tim
II is coming when woman will dress in
!. healthful, chaste, and beautiful manne
y Whatsoever things are true. honest, Lowell
y and of good report, will yet be carried inI
}, every detail of life. The world has contiT
: ued to move with accelerated velocity sine
IS the confusion of the Ptolemaic theory. Sine
y the piercing denuncations against DIR, Ha
IS vey for asserting the circulation of the blOo'
l. its great life-pulses have been throbbing I
:. the very center. In tho United States thel
}, IS published the LdtOs Of Life Science
}. life, Herald Of Healh and Health Reforme
y These periodicals aim to discuss every sui
IT ject that pertains to the health and pure ha
piness of man and woman by their side stan
IS the Woman'S Journal, the Christian Wonad
Is and the Heather Won1an'S Friend, all gran
@ ly IN the aggressive; endeavoring in eve
y way to round out woman to her most syn
a motrical capacities; inclusive among Il
IS items of these journals, are systematiziI
Of of labor, time, and means in manner
g result in the greatest amount of social Gu
is ture, domestic happiness, and aid to Il
l. needy and helpless in every conditio
Is Items from the health journals are scissors
$. into almost every exchange, and flood Il
% land from east to west and are working Ill
" leaven throughout the whole lump. An