The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-08
THE HUMAN FORM DIVINE.
Some OF tho Aids 20 Masculine beauty Thu
Aro Now Employed.


some of tho Aids 20 Masculine Beauty That
Aro Now Employed.
Eerp York Sun.
Sometimes customer will use up
fifteen minutesin admitting that he wants
anything, and then We have to call the
article by surgical name and explain
the beneficial effect it has upon the system
before he buysit. I have a customer who
gets shoulder pads regularly, and every
time have to ask him how his cold is,
and whether the protection is a success.
His shoulders are very hollow, and he is
too sensitive to ask the tailor to pad out
his clothes as he wants them. He looks
fine though, when he's fixed up, and the
protector gives him the build Of a slugger.
Made on scientific principles, you know.
and only to remedy the forgettulness Of
nature. None OF your vulgar cotton pad
ding that anyone can detect, but real art.
But here's something much more useful,
and yet easier to sell, because you see, II
looks surgical. That is sold as an 'abdo'
minal COMPRESSOR or, II man is loosen.
sitive to buy it by this name, we call 1t
the patent elastic ventilated trousers sup
porter Then we fasten one OF these
hooks on it, and our customer buys It to
hold up his trousers. It's very useful for
this reason: You see, many gentlemen
indulge moro in eating than in athletic
sports, and the result is an abnormal de-
yelopment around the waist, most I'M
pleasant and notifying to those who take
pride in their personal appearance. They
are not ut their ease, and they can't
dance"
"Hcw about mems corsets?
swell, they have grown so common that
we look upon them US matter OF course.
OF the genuine exquisite men, to whom
shape and style are everything, ut least
one out OF three wear them, and many
other men OF a more solid class wear them
lust for comfort. Yes, / said comfort. l
suppose they got into the habit when they
were dudes and grew to like the corset.
They are great support, and their con-
slant wear renders useless certain muscles
OF the body which consequently lose
strength and leave the corset wearer de-
pendent on his corsets, just as nearly all
women are. But there is another class oil
men to be spoken Of, and they keep up
the demand for mems cofsets more than
all others put together. / mean some oil
the officers Of the crack regiments. When
you see an officer sailing along in majestic
stiffness, with his back as smooth as an
ironing board and his waist squeezed in
as tight as possible, without showing q
wrinkle in his coat, you may be sure he
has got on a corset, and q good still one,
with strong steel braces.
The dealer drew from glass case some
thing carefully wrapped in tissue paper,
and christening the bundle with care dis
closed most gorgeous corset 1t was
laced in front and behind, and was cover
ed with red silk trimmed all over with
lace. The path OF each whalebone was
marked with stitches OF blue silk. It was
Il work OF art, and the dealer sighed with
pleasure as he laid it away.
'sThat cost S25," he said when the tissue
paper had been carefully readjusted,
t'and les a pleasure to turn out such a
delicate thing. It will be worn by very
stylish young man, and will last him about
q year. II anything is wrong with mans
legs we can pad them together, as natures
forgatlulnesS may require, and we can
take man whose legs are the bane OF his
life and make them fit to come out in
tights. Anything short of absolute de-
formity can be corrected, and no gentle
man of means and enterprise need remain
ugly unless he chooses to.