Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-09

They Must Go-Mss Jenness- Miller VIII
Tell How aud Why,
slender, comedy lady introduced her
self to the RECORD UNION office yesterday
and delivered letters of commentator
from ladies whose words of approval COM
mand respect. She proved to be Mrs. Car
rol Holbrook, representing Mrs. JeDness-
Miller, who lectures on Correct and Ar
tistic Dress for Women" She has been
engaged TO lecture for the ladies' associa-
alton that is preparing the free kindergar-
ten school that il is hoped will be speedily
opened here. That philanthropic interest
was enough, alone, TO invest the visit with
interest for this vicinity, and such aid as
an interview will contribute to the effort to
open the school. Accordingly the question
was asked:
Who is your principal, madam ?"
g A lady not unknown to the literary
world, who proves TO women that they can
dress elegantly without encasing them
selves in torture
How is that? In Boomer costume ?p
No, sir not a bit of it. Why, she
shows and wears costumes that are per-
fectly exquisite, and that for all the world
can see, are worn just as are the present
misunderstanding ones"
Then the hustle is not to go?"
"Yes, it is, and the corset, too, and all
the bands about the waist, and all the
staying and lscipg, and the collars and
straps and buckles, whalebone, dress-im-
provers and all the rest CT the prisoning
apparatus"
What have you got left?"
why, the woman, to be sure. The
strong, healthful woman without backaches
and headaches, and not the hip laden,
high-heeled, weighted-down and fashion,
manacled creature"
"But how will such a woman look ?"
"Look? Why hundred per cent. more
beautiful. graceful and healthful than the
corseted-up, waist-weighted creatures of the
day"
will fashion stand it?"
Eyes. 1t already stands it, for didn't
tell you that 1.-THE refornl-does not dress
a woman any less beautifully, but in
reality more gracefully and chastely?"
Are men admitted to the lectures?"
''Oh, yes; but the last half hour they re-
tire, and leave their wives and daughters. I"
"Oh!"
"Oh, yes; and glad enough to do so, and
wait for them, for the men are convinced
at once by Mrs. Miller. Just hear what
the editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean wrote,
for instance:
"a heritage from the crude, radical, and un-
cultured pioneers in the reform of woman S
habilaments is prejudice in the public mind
against such movements and movers. But if
dress reform will produce race OF women like
Mrs. Miller, if the abandonment of steel cases
and bone racks for our delicate exotics will
bring them into the full development of superb
w-manhooc which Mrs Miller has attained,
th1 world would submit to a conquest of dress
reform that Bloomerism could never have en-
forced. Mrs. Miller is an ample argument in
favor of her theories"
Does she illustrate by exhibiting the
new costume"
Indeed, she does; costumes from $40
cost, to 81 900, and the ladies clap their
hands with delight over their beauty.
Why, she changes her full costume more
times in half-hour than a woman in the
old style can do in four hours. See here,
what the Chicago Tribune said:
"Mrs. Miller wore q number of different robes
to let the ladies see how they sit upon them.
She charged her toilet as often in ha an hour
as Patti in three hours, and she looked far more
bewitchiag in each of them than the diva when
fieure OF sylph and the composition sense OF
an artist. The ladies clapped their hands in
several rounds of delight each time she ap-
peared.'
What Mrs. Miller is concluded Mrs.
Holbrook. " she will tell You she owes to
the dress reform and to physical culture.
As she says Nature did not intend me
for hesutiful woman, but / have frus.
trsted her ! 90 not want compliments, ]
SPEAK only the truth. / came of con-
sumptive stock. l was foreordained Tor
an early death. Ny chest was hollow
my cheeks were wan | was stoop-shoul-
dered, and had no appetite. l was con-
stantly warned not to take cold, for if
did / should surely have cough, and
knew what that meant. What l am now
/ owe to physical culture
If half the claims of Mrs. Holbrook fol
her principal are realized, Mrs. Miller will
create furore in the local feminine world
and the " Free kindergarten will have {
benefit that will open its doors at once anc
set all It's wheels in motion.