St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-13

five years and no petticoatS. Oh,
used to stand on street corners during
windy days.. and spend many anxious
moments in unwinding, but do SO no
more"
The petticoat, it seems. had been dis
carded for 1.-THE divided skirt" This.
the lecturer explained, answered all
purposes and was not cumbersome.
The divided skirt. however. was not a
part of the exhibition.
''There are two conditions of Women's
dress" said the lecturer, (which should
always be observed. First. physical
comfort and ease of movement, and sec
Ond, grace and harmony"
In speaking of physical comfort The
lecturer referred to the freedom of the
limbs. by limbs,' she said, Il mean
legs. We have" she went on, ''such
strange ideas of mOdeSty in the use of
our mother tongue. Ii the Creator had
intended legs only for the use Of men
He would have provided women with
some other means of loc0motion."
After some desultory remarks on the
display made by women in bathing
suits, the art of sitting down properly,
and the other subjects more or less re-
lated to the matter in hand, and the
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prepare for her first ILLUSTRATION"
Lightning Changes.
At her special request she was vari-
ouSly timed by the audience. In just
two minutes and fifteen seconds she re-
appeared in something-or-other of olive
green plush with silver girdle about.
the waist. This, the audience appeaaed
to think, was quite the thing, and after
few more appropriate remarks, there
was another two minutes change, and
then came vision of pink india silk
upon the platform. This appeared to
be a garment appropriate for young
ladies to wear at home during the even
ing.
The next presentation was street
costume of drab, embellished with a
streak of pink. ''Do l look conspicu-
tOuS?" asked the lecturer. No? Well,
that is the main point to look at. You
will observe that wear no cOrSetS and
no bone waists, and now Pm going to
show you how to sit down without COM
ing together"
Suiting the action to the word, Mrs.
Jenness- Miller gradually reelIned in a
chair, and then, by series of graceful
contortionS, showed what ''coming to-
gether'' meant. The speaker then be
gan to pull and tug at her dress in vari-
GUS places to show how we'll it fitted,
and how absolutely unnecessary it was
to wear corsetS in order that dress
should fit properly. She then went
through a series of motions and gyra-
tons to illustrate the fact that woman
can be well and stylishly dressed and
yet maintain the freedom of Der limbs
beg pardon, legs.
/ A lady in the audience wanted to
know how she took her gown Off.
Why" said she, nothing easier; just
pull string SO and unhook SO, and
well. some other time will do to explain
this"
If You Have Pretty Arms Show
Them.
Then came the exhibition of full dress.
This was the most striking ''iIlustra-
ftiOn" of the day. Here" said the lee
iturer, reappearing in "low neck and
short sleeve affair, after the usual two
minute intermission-''here you see the
full dress. extreme full dress. 1t would
be Impossible for me to be any more
decOllete without becoming Self-cUn-
sciouS, and that is always vulgar. And
now. as to arms. Certainly none but
prudes object to display of arms. and
my advice is, if you have pretty arms
show them, if you have not hide them.
The costume thus displayed was cut
rather high in the neck for extreme full
dress. 1t was pretty, and fitted the tall,
graceful figure of the speaker to perfec-
ton. ''You see." she exclaimed, chow
can move about with perfect freedom
At this Mrs. Jenness-Miiler swayed her
body about as if she were balancing a
feather on the tip of her nose. Her
effort was roundly applauded.
mo corsets here" she said. s'There
is no space between my dress and my
self, and yet you see how closely my
dress fits. Why" she went on en-
phatically. 81 never yet saw corseted
woman who wouldn't insist that she
could insert her double fist between her
corset and herself"
Mrs. JenneSS- Miller is tall, graceful
woman, with round, plump arms, but
seemingly rather slender in person.
When asked her weight, she said she
weighed ''150 pounds in sheet at the
Turkish baths"