The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-04-04

Devices FOR Securing Fine Fic ure-Cinisns
Of benefits 90 be Derived.


From Forncy's Progress.l
In 1861 and 1862. while many Amer
cans were engaged In discussion dow
on the Potomac, there were several 81
rious questions agitating England. The
were fought IN the newspapers, an
have not, IT is feared, been satisfactorily
settled 10 this day. Let them be classe,
In the order Of their Importance. a
shown by the number and length OF ID,
printed articles. First, should youns
ladies over IL years Of age be whipped
L. home and in school? Second, shouls
gentlemen wear corsets? Third, should
ladies on horseback wear spurs? II Is x
be presumed that the young lady whip
ping, the male corset, and the female
spur-wearlng 60 On as they did before
TOT while nothing is said about them
now, II IS only fair 10 conclude the agi-
iation neither increased nor decreased
their practice. Like the Sunday prob
lem and the servant ANNOYANCE, these
are matters which one could talk about
until doomsday without results. In this
country few men wear corsets, and
they seem TO like them. Gottschalk,
the pianist, and equally celebrated as 4
beau, always had on corset. The male
corset-wearers are those who take their
coats TO an uptown tailor, whose
advertisement may b. found al
most any morning in the
Lcdger. This ingenious fellow has an
arrangement which he puts into coats,
by which ones shoulders are made 10
look as broad as prize-tighter's. With
one OF ms Inventions, and a perfectly
constructed corset, the figure Of man
becomes irresistible. 1t is secret that
the ladies know as well as ourselves
that the shoulders Of all our coats are
more or less padded, that frequently
our vests are ditto, so that with The ex-
ception Of the hair on our heads. which
Is usually our own, there is about the
man almost as much sham
as surrounds the full-dressed woman.
but our male corset-wearers will not
talk. They hide their corsets, figura-
lively as well as actually, and would
deny the whole thing il they were asked
about it. A daily newspaper reporter
= the authority for saying that the tailor
who makes heavy shoulders out Of slim
ones keeps quiet on the subject. Many
attempts have been made, but all ia
'ain, TO interview him. One must turn
% England 10 discover how man feels
o be tightly laced. Here is a gentle
nan who wears ladies' shoes because he
links them more comfortable, and
,oes for his corsets to a store where
here are lady attendants, as III find
hem much more obliging than male as
istants usually are.r He is connois-
eur in corscts for gentlemen. Listen
o him:
!" strongly advise to have the corset
made TO open up the back only, as / find
much more comfortable TO wear and
lghter than when made to open ia front,
n the now common mode. can truly
firm, from my own experience, that
moderately tight lacing-say three TO
our inches less waist measure than the
atural size-is not only not prejudicial.
ut, on the contrary, is very beneficial
. the health. My occupation j. mostly
. sedentary nature, and used to suf-
'r much from pains in my side and
ack, and from indigestion; but about
year and halfago my sister persuad-
q me to Try and wear corset, and she
TERED one of her own to suit me.
,und II rather irksome for the first few
avs, but that feeling soon passed, and
n my next visit to London had a COR
4 properly made to my own measure
lent. Since then l have had another
ne made smaller in the waist and wider
the chest, which l am now wearing.
he pains have quite left me, and my
ealth Is generally much better than It
sed TO be. Besides this, the feeling OF
sing tolerably well laced. is very COM
'rtable. From my own observation
I'd inquiries, | find the practice Of cor
t-wearing by young gentlemen is be-
,ming much more usual, bat we don't
axe any display OF the fact"
In France and Germany very many
ore gentlemen affect corscts than in !
ngland. Here at home it is impossi-
0 the custom will ever become what
lr English friends call usual.n We
went the time for the intricacies Of .
Q corset. Even the suspender is get !
x beyond the control of the American /,
an, and fellow-sulferer wrote TO the
ew York Graphic not long ago asking .
to request suspender-makers to have ,,
" on poor male humanity and cease !
ding novel machinery To this necessa-
part OF our attire. No. A people !
40 are frightened at so simple thing
pair OF suspenders will never un- /,
rtake the management Of corsets,
dyed about, as they are rumorcd to !
, with whalebones innumerable, Z
'ings by the yard and holes by the 4
zen. II has not been the purpose, in 8
IS paper, to do more than mention
has been done-about the whipping |,
d the spurs. These are themes at /
itch the pen, that did not falter at cor !
$ for gentlemen, wisely stops.
Brain Workers.