The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-03-31
REFORM Is NECESSARY,

A FORCTBLE APPEAL TO THE WOMEN OF TUE
LAND TO GIVE THE WAIST A CHANCE"
The Dress Reform movement is sub
iect that has been written up and talked up
and discussed in all It's various phases and
from 50 many points and by so many peo.
pie, that one would be led into believing
that little were left to SAY about it, In
this particular it is strongly akin to the
Temperance Reform movement nor does
| the likeness end here; with all that has
been said and thought aud done in the
great efforts thus expended by our Amcri-
can people in the past few years, there yc,
remain many evils in connection with both
movements. They must be met and combat
ted as best they may by The workers in each
cause. IT'S not my purpose in the limited
space allotted to q newspaper article 10 at
tempt anything Ikea dissertation on either
one Of the above mentioned subjects; more
particularly would | not be held as pre-.
suming TO teach on the subject Of temper
ance, here, where for 50 many months
past we have had the better digcSted,
more tersely expressed and invitingy
dished up ideas, thoughts aud experiences
of the brightest in,cIIects our little city
Affords, to say nothing Of the not
inferior talent from abroad that has
sown so rich field among
US. With til, before me my
weak pen would know still better the
strength of its own weakness, 50 that any
thought to which / might essay an utter
ance would, Of a surety, fall fiat 10 the
ground eer it found It's shape on paper a
few evenings since while Ii,teng to the
forcbly given opinions Of one Of our en-
inent medical men on the subject Of intcm.
perance the thought flashed over me why
does not he, and other men in his profession,
give u women the instemablr privilege oI
of listening TO a similarly torcible and
learned talk on the injuries arising from
tight acing;' and again the question
shaped itself in my mind aud will not
down. There are 50 few learned women,
and the few we have would seem 10 be too
fer removed from the practical, every day
things of life TO give heed 70 their own
physical disabilities, or TO the needs Of Their
less favored sisters either In feeding the
: mind how many Of them are starving the
, hody-draining it Of its vital forces daily
and hourly and bringing in moth.
, iug whcrewith 10 r"plcnish the wasted It's
sues. More than few Of these "wOrkcf,
l as we are wont to call them, are, TO a prac.
.. ticcd or closely observing eye, objects TO he
: commisseratcd, encased as they are in that
e death dealing relic OF the days Of the
e Inouisition, the inncXibe unrccntina
5 CORSET Now is it not subject for rctlec
ton that any human being possessed Of 'h'
l. average amount OF reasoning powers, wouc
= or could so complacently submit to be thus
= slowly but all too surely victimizcd! The
Q celebrated Mrs. DR.. Gleason, OF n. u, very
+; Justly and truly writes in one of her Talk
z to my Patients that "no woman who wear
l. corset ever wears it tight-accolding It
n her own showlng;' nor do they; and ye
S that no woman who ever wore corset 70
ii half year did so without injury TO her
c sell or her children, we have the best an
tholity for asserting namely: the assul
ance of an experience in our own propc
person and the further assurance of clos
observation of our fellow women for
greater number Of years tina
we care to acknowledge to; no
G. do we fear the successful contradiction {
&c any other women, on this subject OF u cor
n uadiction of any kind from any man wi
rs knows enough about the good or bad effect
le of any article or style OF dress to diScourS
is upon the subject at all. There arises
G. my minds eye, while | write, the figure
at frail looking middlc.aged woman who's
e. life for many years has been one burdenC
60 by her wrctchcd health, df anything so Ii
IN tie deserving the name can be Gale
of "hcalth"). once heard her tel
he with seeming pride, that h
of waist measured just seventc'
ed inches, as, indeed it did. But the G