Morris tribune., 1880-04-15
WOMEN'S DRESS.
What London Physician Says About It
COrsets Strongly Denounced.

COrsets Strongly Denounced.
DR.. Richardson delivered a lecture
yesterday at the London institution ON
health and dress. The lecturer said the
character of dress stands 80 closely to the
character of the person who wears it that
it is hard to touch the one without the
other. All kinds ofsymyathies are cvok-
ed by dress; political sympathies are on
the most intimate relationship with dress;
social sympathies are indexed by it; ar
tistlc sympathies are part of it. Pro
ceeding then to lay out the plan of the
lecture he begged it to be understood
that it was altogether part from his pur-
pose to depreciate good fashion in dress.
He thought it was the duty Of every one
to cultivate good fashion and that every
woman ought to make herself as becom-
ingly beautiful as she possibly could.
Corsets, wristbands, garters and tight
shoes were especially denounced. The
dress Should be loose, and the weight of
II should be borne by the shoulders. In
mems modern dress, this was fairly ac-
complished; but in women's dress, drag
ing from the waist, there is such waste
OF physical power that if women were in
all respects tree as men, they could never
approach to the position of men as act
i've workers, until they had emancipated
themselves from this physical bondage.
The reform he suggested IN the dress
of women, was that it should IN ali prac-
tical details, have the same advantages,
and should be, IN fact, the same, with
the exception of the exterior robe or
n fou IL
even trespassed lightly on the ground,
was the most becoming for them. This
should play the same part as the outer
coat OF the man, the rest of the dress be-
ing the same, except that it might be
made of lighter materials. The great
surgeon Cline, when once consulted by
an anxious mother, as to what she should
do to prevent girl from becoming de.
formed, answered: "Let her have no
stays, and let her run about like the
boys" He would indorse this wise rule,
and would add: LET the mothers of
England clothe the girls precisely as
they clothe the boys, permitting Knicker-
bockers it they like, and let them add the
one distinguishing mark of light, loose,
flowing gown. and the girls will grow in
to women as vigorous, as healthy and as
well-formed in body as their companions
of the sterner sex" In the next part OF
the lecture the quality of clothing was
| considered, and the amount at various
seasons. The necessity of special care in
| adapting clothing to season was illustra.
ted from the physiological rule first dis
covered by the late Mr.. M1llner, that the
body independent of any will of its own,
underwent two pounds of waste, com
mencing toward the close of September,
and the increase in the first week of
April. Warm clothing ought to begin
in September or early in October, and
ought not to be left off until the close of
April. For underclothing next the skin
he strongly recommended silk, and next
light feecy flannel. Thick heavy flannel,
and every material that absorbed and
held the watery excretions from the skin,
were at all times bad. Heavy clothes
were bad and had really no necessary
connection with warmth. For outer
garments in cold weather those that were
light and feecy were best, and furs were
excellent.
After describing the dangers that oc-
cur in cold seasons from sudden chang
es of dress, and the fiimsy dresses in
which young ladies go IN and cut of the
heated bathrooms during inclement
weather, the lecturer touched on the
ventilation of dress. He criticised Sc
verely the permanent waterproof which
shuts up the rain that distils from the
body at the same time that 1t keeps out
the rain which fall from the clouds
distinction with difference not in fav-
or of the wearer of the permanent water
proof. Then he dwelt on the coler OF
dress, contending that the Lancet was
quite right in stating that white olol
was the best even in cold weather, While
it was admittedly the best in the summer
season. The objection to white was, OF
course, the readiness with which 1t show
ed the dirt,an objection which was strict
| ly an advantage in health point of view
but which would be met practically by
modifying the color to gray. For al
ordinary occasions light gray ought t.
take the place of black for outer cover
ings of the body. Black was in fact O
all colors the worst, and these poor la
dies who thought it necessary after be
reavement to immerse themselves 70
months in Grape were indeed to be pitied
After the suttee it was almost the sad
dest of miserjes inflicted by society OF
the already miserable.
IT is the man with the rheumatism
who is every inch King.
: KISSES by telephone taste like
! boiled china egg on toast.
:. FIa trees bear fruit in California th,
second year after being planted.
WARM feet and moderately COLI
body are better than warm body ant
moderately cold feet.
Il A wELL-KNowN litterateur and humor
list modestly says that his chief literar,
requirements are the books he has boz
rowed and never returned.
III A MAN named his potatoes r Gold
t smith Maid," because they were fas