The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-20


admire toe latter flower, in all its
health and bloom; next day, as agreed
upon, they met before the same
flower; it was faded and next to gone
Courier explained the change. by
showing where he had pinched the
stem, and 80 stopped the circulation
and induced decline. "The same
exactly will ensue with you Mad'lle,
If you continue to compete with the
Wssps."
The art OF committing suicide by
the corset, ia thus a reality it; is a
torture unknown in the East.
Painters and sculptors. sound judges
of female beauty, never take tight
laced ladies for 9 model; the Venus OF
Milo has natural waist. The robe
OF Nora Creina foated as wild a
mountain breezes, and of Roman
lady, "a single pin at night let loose
the robe that enclosed her beauty"
Britard recommended ladies to wear
corsets if they pleased, only not to
lace them. Juno it is said, according
to Homer, wore two belts or corsets,
in order to se6uce Jupiter, one of
these belts richly ornamented with
gold. She borrowed from Venus.
This may explain perhaps why ladies
in ancient times, implored Venus to
conceal their PHYSICAL defects from
their lovers. Andromache wore only
flowing robes, but what motive had
she to 60 in for toilettes, to please a
husband whose state dress consisted
OF seven bullocks' hides? Perhaps
then as now, ladies dressed to v. <
each other, and not to please their
lords.
However, at all times, ladies aimed
to have a fine bust; prominent
throat and a slender waist. The
latter was sign of b auty; the oppo-
site, of defor nifty. What could Mrs.
Fezziweg do there even with her sub
stantial smile? Martial made his
epigrams on whimmins waists, and
Cold enumerated them as among the
cures for love. Sidney Smith knew
a lady that it required a morning to
walk around her. Samonicus in the
third century, the predecessor
OF Bantam, had a remedy for stout
figures and made fortune by his
patent medicines. The simple remedy
consisted OF pcmatGm Of ivy leaves,
goose TAT, luke warm milk, and par
tridges' eggs. Don't smile, for Cato
himself gives more"originaP' receipts
10 his rules of household manage
ment.
During the middle ages ladies wore
a corset not to compress but 10 mould
the figure. Tbs gave rise to low
bodied dresses. 90 low indeed, that
Isabella OF Bavaria, queen Of CHARLES
vi. wac decollete as far as the waist,
and though the clergy Numbered
against that fashion, the ladies 7at.
ronized it just the same. 1t Was
Catherine de Medicis, who introduced
in 1882. the bust corset into France,
and which soon spread 81 over En-.
rope, despite toe denuncistion OF the
clergy. The Emperor Joseph II,
believed to have put down the mode,
By ordering all infamous women to
wear the corset and paniers. Not
bit OF It. 1t was the revolution
which abolished that torture, like
some others; bat it came back with
the restoration. Napoleon l confessed
TO DR.. Caryisat, that the corset sigui-
fed decadence and the destruction OF
race. Louis XIV impotent as he
Was, could not put down stays, and
Charles x lsmsnted, that while
France formerly had Disnas. Venuses
and MODES. she had now only wasps.
Madame TullIsp, Who lived to a very
long age. was once asked how she
had conserved her fresh looks, re
piled, by never in nay life wearing
q corset"
There are 1900 corset makers in
PFris, who on al average, turn snt
one every second day, or total of
$50. 900 annually; five times that
number are made in the dspartm ea.s.
See the consequences; the Academy
OF medicines. Statistics state that 25
per cent OF giils sucsumb from dis
eases contracted by wearing ccrssts,
Is per cent after their first accouohe-
ment, and ss many more become in
firm or deformed for the remainder of
their days.
Since Sara Bernhardt dies every
night on the funeral pyre with Mana
Sabib, she has not time to again
horse whip the furniture. and plunge
daggers into the tapestry, OF her rival,
Mdlle. Colombier, who exposed the
rscesses of the private life of Madame
Bsrnhardt, in the novel Sarah Bar
mum. There are people who swear
both the ladias are Barnums,s Great
interest is taken by the public in the
melodrama OF Mana .Sdbib; emotion
is concentrated on General Whisley,
the governor. one whom the Mana has
with him in Caunpore as hostage.
The tiger orders the general to speak
from the rampsrts, to the English
soldiers beseiging the city, to grant
an amnesty and the honors of var,
historic slayer of women and children,
or he, Whisley, shall be tortured to
death. The general addresses the
soldiers, urges them to revenge the
massacres, and to save him from the
cruellest of deaths, be orders them
as their seperior officer, to aim at his