The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-27

msiSrity of fashionable women carry
themselves well, straight. and not IN
gracefully, and plump. rounded figure is
By no means rare among the -four
hundred" although marred and rem
dered less beautiful than possible
by the dress and corset m akers
art. 1t is fashionable, too, 70 be clean in
this day and generation, and clubbing" is
English, 50 that the semi-weekiy baths of
our grandmothers have become bi-daily
with their progeny: tennis, yachting,
riding, are all elegant sports-facts which
rather discount in the fashionable world
some of Mrs. Miller's reforms One cannot
help hoping as one listens to her forcible
presentment Of the evils she inveighs
against, and, as one admires the com
Portable garments she has designed, that
she may sometime bring her skill and per-
suasion to the cognizance of class of
labor1ng women 10 whom the adoption of
such healthful and convenient dress would
be of vast value.
TO CONVINCE SHOPGIRLS, SALESWoMEE,
any woman, indeed. whose occupation
necesltates tramping about the streets in
all weathers, or standing for hours every
day at the desk OF counter that they could
increase their strength and comfort, and
actually prolong their lives by merely
adopting different dress, would be deed
of almost incalculable benefit.
One day last winter the writer stood In
one OF the large dry goods stores waiting
her turn to be served at one of the counters.
The girls behind it were very numerous,
but were all busy and hurried, passing aud
repassing one another in the narrow space
to look for required goods. In the confu-
sion, one jostled the arm OF a second, who
was reaching for a box of ribbons. aud
knocked it to the floor. You might have
kept out of my way" impatiently ex-
claimed the offending one, and you might
have looked was the equally i'm
patient rejoinder Then the first speaker
relented: 1T was my fault, Kitty" she
said. but my feet ache me So" and her
voice was almost a wall. Then it was
Kitty's turn: "It's all right" she said
II wouldn't have minded a little accident
like that, only my head is most splitting"
The waiting customer looked the two girls
over. The one whose head ached had
on a heavy skirt Of shabby black
velveteen, whose loose weistband per-
mitted it TO drag upon her hips. A
cheap black jersey was the waist of her
dress, and through its thin texture the out.
lines OF stout cruel corset could be seen.
Around her neck, in obedience to the high
collar fashion, was piece of some stiffened
black velvet covered with bead passemen-
terle. the weight of which neckwear must
have very sensibiy impeded the free flow
of blood through the delicate veins. On
her head, in addition to her own hair,
which was not scanty, was piled
a palpable switch of jute, the struct-
ure pinned on with two or three heavy ball
pins. Poor. misguided child, for the face
was pathetically young, was it any wonder
that hs7 temples throbbed and her nerves
were strung to the last pitch of endurance2
Her companion was CARRIED in a very similar
manner, her dress presented no modifica-
tons that made it more comfortable, though,
doubtless in her case, the maximum
misery Of poorly made. ill-itting shoes,
possibly with high heels and narrow toes,
reduced the minimum Indebtedness of
dragging clothes. What luster to Mrs
Miller's fame to carry the gown form" in
simple, inexpensive design to girls like
these who stand for thousands of their sis
tiers, and to coax from them them their de-
forming and killing corsets. To bring this
preacher and this flock together for such a
result some philanthropist ought to see &C
complished