The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-08-06

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out new attachment. The lean run tc
ruptures, the fat to relaxation of the
muscles. Children may outgrow Their
strength, and need support for weak
ankles and knees and back. and so dc
elderly persons, from the weakness Of
old age"
"Who are the purchasers of the steel
back shoulder braces that figure in such
profusion in your stock?"
"The sale is immense throughout
the whole country to young girls who
stoop over their desks until they become
round-shouldered, a difficulty, strangely
enough, boys are seldom troubled with.
Among small things that men-and
women, too--are always trying to i'm
prove upon and invent new, are garters.
Of the numerous styles now in vogue
there is nothing that gives entire satis-
faction. The same may be said of COR
sets, although fortunes have been made
by various persons who have patented
every conceivable style Of corset. Each
new thing of the kind has its run, if well
advertised, and during the craze for it
much money is made"
"And what and for whom are all
those elastic bands, stockings, keel and
toe pieces, armlets, Wristbands, etc."
"They are for two kinds of people
those who need them for some physical
defect and for those who wear them to
enhance their personal appearance"
care not the two contradictory ?"
"Not at all. For the improvement
Of the figure We have apparatus to gir
in the waist and to hold back the
shoulders and throw out the chest. Their
use is almost equally divided between
the sexes. There are few stout persons
in this city who do not wear some sort
of mechanical support OF other.
ga gentleman recently brought his son
in for truss. He seemed to think it
an astounding thing that any one
should require such articles, and gIanc-
ing curiously around at the, stock ex-
pressed his wonder that Lcyuld make
living at at such saea business. There was
something about his appearance which
led me to suspect that he himself stood
in need Of some OF my wares, and I
questioned him as to whether he did
not feel more comfortable when he sat
with his feet up. He confessed that he
did, and, turning up the bottoms of his
trousers, he asked me what was the
matter with him. I said 'varicose
veins, and though I had been in the
business twenty years l had never seen
man who needed elastic stockings
more than he did. He bought pair,
and, after walking about the store
little, he declared that he had not felt
so comfortable for years; that he had
never known what allied him, but now,
that he did, he would wear the stock
ings the rest of his life. He took his
leave, saying that he now fully under
stood how could make living at such
business. Persons are very reserved
about their wearing an appliance for
an infrmity. We are generally request
ed to deliver our parcels without our
address on them, SO that their contents
may not be suspected even by tboir
dearest friends and relatives, and those
who wear anything for the improve
ment of their figures are even more &C.
cretive and mysterious.
"There are seasons in this as in every
other business. We sell twice as many
crutches in winter as in ven, for
winter is the season fC res and
accidents by slippingo- steps, in
the streets, and fal ing on % ice when
skating Dislocations and broken arms
and legs increase the demand for splints
and crutches. In summer the heat in
iures elastic stockings, shoulder braces,
bust SUPP orters, the leather Of trusses
and the ike, and they have 10 be re-
paired or replaced. Then, also, ladies
who wear improvement appliances wear
them while bathing, SO that no differ
ence shall be detected in their forms
whether in a walking or bathing suit,
and water is very damaging to all such
appliances thus the demand for these
is greater in summer than in winter.
Who buy crutches? We sell thera to
those who have not lost lirab a."
lamed by rheumatism,
or broken legs Those
leg are generally 81
supplied by the gove
fetal limbs, and there .p
for the sale Of them, but tLo sale is be-
coming less and less year by year, as
the manned victims of the late war are
gradually dying of. Clutches very
often need to be repaired if in constant
use. They are made Of maple, lance,
and rosewood, and cost from so to 500
q pair. ."-Ne,o York. Sun.