The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-03

In undue fednesS OF the nose, and. besides,
they retard the circulation. Anything which
due quantities affects the circulation Of the
face, and the nose, being the most promi-
nent member, is the first to hang out the
danger signal to the distress Of its owner.
The multitudinous and infnitesimal veins
and cells, distended in an unnatural man
her part of the time, ultimately go off on a
strike with the unreasonableness of other
hard laborers, and refuse to perform their
work of contraction even when all obstacles
are removed and hours shortened to their
liking, and this results in permanently
glowing member causing great annoyance
result is most disastrous, as the circulation
is more apparent, while if the feature Is
cartilaginous there is little or no blood cir
culation and the effect ia not go palpable
and distressing. There is nothing which
really harrows the soul of pretty woman
SO much as an old-rose tinted nasal mem
Der; and the time and fuss she devotes to
it's decoration with powder would if given
to any other speciality in art, rank her with
the Angeles and Raphaels of history. To
be sure, she is rather of an impressionist
in her methods, but it is her enthusiasm,
her energy. her singleness of purpose, that
would bring her glory.
"As for the superabundance of fiesh,' she
added, everyone understands how corsets
encourage it's accumulation and then deposit
it in most undesirable places. The diges-
. tive forces, all thrown out of order by cor
fusion, cannot perform their functions sue
cessfully. Like crowded army, they serve
to work their own destruction only. Lack
of digestion means lack of assimilation.
and lack of assimilation means fat. You
may call it what you will-embonpoint,
obesity, corpulence- is only fat after all.
permeated with depravity. obstinacy, and
determination. A woman fights it in vain
with frightened girdle. She may keep her
waist measure at certain figure by hang
ing herself up on horizontal bar while she
laces her corsets, and never breathing
again until she takes them of, but the leg
ions of the fat demon pile it on with spade
and trowel above and below the corset bar
rier.
For many years a handsome figure sig
nitied only pretty waist Bodices were
not fitted so tightly, and skirts with crino-
draperies concealed the figure below the
waist completely. But now, when fashion
has taken from her deformed devotees every
dear disguise and kindly curtain. exposing
them to a heartless world in dresses as
clinging as riding skirts, fitted as closely
scarcely more reserved in their revelations
than the ballet girls tarlatan, now it is
that women are learning that tight lacing,
resulting III wasp waists and dispropor-
tionate abdomens, is not conducive to
beauty.
II could tell you great many more
evils resulting from corset wearing and
tight lacing,'' concluded the philosophical
little woman, "but It's no use writing them.
Women will only skip them as they read.
You see, I've been in the business long
time, first with regular corsets now with
these waists. remember that the pretty
young girls who used to insist on my pull
ing up their corsets until the new laces
snapped like threads, came hack to me in ten
years with sailow skins. pale lips, and dull
eyes. Liver gets all wrong, you see, and
when your liver gets wrong everything is in
a jaundiced condition. Marriage is a fail
ure and life is burden ana heaven is q
myth. know a lady who will admit now
that she has really reformed, that three
weeks of tight lacing will thicken her skin
like piece of parchment, and makes her
believe that her husband is in love with
some one else, her cook steals the sugar,
her diamonds are paste, and her baby is
stomach. could tell you. too of the girls
oculists send here because the wearing of
tight corsets has affected their eyesight.
don't quite understand how, but it doesn't
signify. No one will believe it. If you
really want to cure woman of tight lacing,
just persuade her to keep the measure Of
her abdomen on the same paper Yith her
waist measure, and to watch her shoulder
blades and the tip of her nose. Why, some
times their shoulder blades get crowded up
and stick out like rudimentary WINGS and
they aren't pretty with evening dresses
ssIhere is comparatively little tight lac
ing now" said the corsetiere in one of the
large shops, s.but think it is less the in
fuence OF the reformers than the cut of
corsets which obyiates the necessity of
tightness by giving women the appearance
of having long and slender waist without
1oas <I,a IF Aroec clrirfc
reveals the figure SO decidedly that many
women are being fitted to larger oorsets
about the waist to bring its slenderness
into proportion with the size about the
hips. frequently a woman expands her
lungs with long full breath and tells us to
dressmaker, who insists on making the
waist larger to take away from the size of
the hips. You see. the dresses are drawn
in SO about the feet and draped in such
way as to exaggerate the abdomen and hips,
and, unless woman is fairly emaciated.
the conventional skirt. The great strug-
gle this summer is for small hips rather
than waists, for bodices are 90 draped as to
disguise that to certain extent. Really
the fashion seems to have been designed for
living skeletons. and the woman with the
ton for slenderness in the conventional
gown. The vanity of our grandmothers
evolved the chrysalis of a corset made of
two boards laced together under the arms
This is its apotheosis." and she held up a
shimmery blue and silver brocaded gi1dle
with q fall of lace at the top drawn up on
tinted ribbons. Its evolution has been slow
and it is not SO very long ago that the most
fastidious woman thought abe was we'll fitted
in q corset made of straight strips of buck
ram, with two cores for the bsst and one for
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