Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1890-06-19
Hygienio Dress.
"MODERN INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE" con-
>lDERED BY THE PHYSIOLOGICAL INsrI-
TUTE.

'MoDERN INSTRUMENT OF TORTURE" CON
sIDkRED BY THE PHYSIOLOGICAL INsrI-
TUTE.
The enthusiasm which has recently been
so thoroughly aroused among the thinking
| women of Boston and its suburbs by Mrs
Annie Jenness Miller, with her practical
lecture and writings on dress, was ably
| contributed to yesterday afternoon by
Mrs. J. A. Waterhouse, of Brookline. who
spoke To the ladies of the Physiological
Institute on "Hygienic Dress and It's Re-
lation TO Physical Culture" These sub
jects, said Mrs. Warehouse. "lie at the
foundation of much of our social and ply
sical well being. Even our educators have
at last come to the conclusion that to be
mentally healthy we must be bodily sound
Our nation is deteriorating In both physi-
cal and intellectual vigor, and the time
has come when some remedial agent shall
be employed whereby can be restored the
stalwart health and endurance, mental
vigor and moral stamina of our forefath-
/ ers. Health Is the secret of beauty OF
| person, too, a> well as OF mind, and W hat
ever contributes to health, must be fac
| tor in the worlds progress. There is no
woman who cannot be benefited in every
way by healthful practices and correct
| dressing, and 1t il now an assured fact
| that hygienic dress is surely and steadily
| winning its way into popular favor, where,
once established. it will surely stay No
one, not even the strongest advocate of
so-called fashion, attempts to DENY that
| the present style of dress is detrimental in
the highest degree to the health of women.
/ lhe theory that dress. in order to be
| healthful, must be ugly, has been made a
> fpyy Q > ~.
demonstrated that in order to look well
We need not be tortured in a straight
jacket all our lives We have seen that we
| can dress becomingly, as every woman
ought, without making guys OF ourselves,
| by combining becomingness and comfort.
Nature Is all grace, and when the phys
lque Is Kept healthy AMI flexible by
proper training Of the tissues and
muscles there is harmony of proper
tion and grace of movement. The
| modern fashion plate, however, is
widely at variance with these attrac-
tions and should be suppressed as per.
nciou> in It's influence upon the minds
Of shallow women and silly girls, because
OF il distorted representation of the human
form, embodyng conditions that cannot
exist, except through long continued tight
laClng, Ii is only habit which has made
women 50 dependent upon this outside in
tiucncc. The power To hold ourselves erect
should come from within la marked dis
tinCton to the effect Of the old regime IN.
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nf our bodies If the raya,,es Of fashions
follic, were confined to their p.rp.tra,or.
they might b. allowed To pass unrebuk.d
bu, they strike a deadly blow At the yery
life Of The lace. No finite mind csp cou-
ceive the misery thcv have produced or the
humber of deaths directly or Indirectly thu,
occa.loueJ. should this linz. of action b,
continued through another generation. /,
would bury all the upprr and middle class.
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propagation of the world To the coarse
grained but healthy, lower classes Let
those husbands who marry tirht laccr- be
prepared for the early burial for their on
spring. Even when the girls attain some
what OF strength. 1t is too often ruthless
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