Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-01-12
A. SENSATIONi
Opinion of n Fashionable Woman OF the
World.

world.
HDo YOU expect to win in your dress re-
form movement was asked of Mrs. Annie
Miller, 10 Z. l4th St, New York,
editor OF Dress.
~ hope tol"
"Why d, you object to the present
stylel"
HIt is ungraceful, deforming and injuri-
ous."
ado ladies' generally support the reforms"
ayes, very generally. My correspond
ence is very heavy. Next to Mrs. Cleve-
lands mine is said TO be the largest daily
mail of any woman's in the United States,
and from not only every State in the Union
but from almost every country of Europe"
sis the magazine, Dress, succeeding ~
every handsomely, indeed. Dress, has
| been published less than year, and / am
gratifed with reports from all over the
world of the acceptance by ladies in the
very highest rank, Of tho reform which
| Dress advocates"
| Mrs. Miller is comely woman in appear
ance, and is very enthusiastic in her dress
reform agitation. AS the New York Graphic
says: "She herself is young and attractive,
with figure so tremendously developed as
to suggest strength, power and beauty"
The reform which she is urging with so
much eloquence and grace seems to be the
coming one. Mrs. Jenness-Miller has the
|
the same family of the late Wendell Phil
| lips, and the poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes.
ut is in the fashionable world, of course,
where all the styles are determined, and
where TIE change nustbyin," she says.
Show do you endure so much work and
keep so wellso
81 dress myself according to my own
ideas, and furthermore, / give myself the
best of care and treatment. Six years ago,
l was nearly exhausted from my work of
lecturing, writing, etc"
'Indeed, you do not look like it nowln
"Nos l am not now. | am now per-
fectly well woman and intend to remain so.
You see / understand the laws of life too
well to be, or remain ill, but strange as it
may seem for one to say who is opposed to
medicines on general principles, if | find
myself tired or feeling ill l fly to the one
single remedy which do endorse, and that
is Warmers safe cure, which gives new en-
ergy and vitality to all my powers. 1t is in
deed what sometimes call my stand by
l have many opportunities to recommend it,
and embrace them gladly, because know
that it is thoroughly reliable, and for women
especially effective. Indeed, often find my
self recommending it to my friends as
warmly as do my magazine, or indeed my
improved garments, and this would not dc
did not personally know of its virtues
Mrs Miller insists that all women can anG
must be beautiful, and will be so if they
follow her style of dress and self treatment
"Will you not state, briefly, in justw
your reform consistsW
"Oh, with pleasurel l propose a jersey
fitting garment to be worn next to the body
making Of woman vision of lovelinessl
ii. "Over this / put cotton or linen gar
ment, Of one piece, without bands or bind
ing covering the entire body also.
III. "Inp place of the petticoats, propose
ono complete body covering garment called
'leglettes.'
w. 1--WE abandon tho corset entirely al
totally unfit for use, in its common form
and we substitute therefor supple sup
porting waist, and then we make the out
side gown as beautiful as artistic skill ant
common sense can design"
Mrs. Miller's words of counsel, whicl
every woman should heed, will undoubted
ly give to the women of America some ney
ideas upon q subject SO very near to each o
| them,