The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-15
M'KINLEY AND CORSETS.
WHY "BAB" oBJEcTs TO TIE TAR
IFF BILL.

Make Corssts DearerP-Don't They
Want Women to Look Trim and
Neat, With Figure All Divine9
"Bab" Delivers Little Lecture on
Her Sex to Group of Women over
Board Of Tea Cups-What Women
Cannot Do, and What They BAD Best
Do-A Woman Who Has Some Good
Ideas of the Duties of Her Sex.
CCoDVri0htl
NEw YORK, Nov. 14-It would interest
me very much TO know what the Republic
can party have to do with corsets Why
should the Mckinley bill raise the
price on corsets aud pearl buttons? Does
it wish the women of the country to be-
come shapeleSs creatures. and to fasten their
belongings with safety~pinsi
WHY SHOULD CoRsETs BE DUTIABLEl
You can't put entire confidence in a
safety-pin. It's the sort of thing that has
will Of its own, and it's safe or unsafe, as
it desires. But TO return TO the corsets.
What has lovely woman done to the re-
publicans that the price should be raised on
the pink satin affairs, that are veritable
stay TO herl What has lovely woman, who
Sah AhaAc VI POAllCo hL 1oF VIII,
done that the beautiful brocaded French
stays should be raised in price, and be be-
yond the reach OF respectability except
when represented by millionairesi Then, too,
buttons. Every republican official should
be forced to have colored China ones on the
shirt which is his protection by day or by
night, for why should he decide the price of
pearl buttonsl 1t would be a good idea to
make him eat few of them just to see how
they agreed with him at an advanced
price.
o, NO. WE DON'T WANT THAT!
The American man wants the American
woman to look the best in the world; but if
he continues to raise the price on corsets.
she will be as shapeless as a meal bag, and
the women Of every other country can jeer
at her. Another thing. just as men have
seen the demoralizing effects Of the very
loose tea-gown, so when, because Of its high
price, we can't have any more corsets: the
women of the nation will become a dis
grace to it, all owing to the freshness of a
few politicians Il usually avoid slang, but
that word "freshn comes in very well when
men take 20 fiddling with women's belong
ings), and women will all go straight to the
demntticn bow-wows, and sit around look
ing like geese being fatted for the prodi-
gals.
THE WOMAN WITHOUT CORSET.
AAO LuOTdl Oh IL IN bulbs "A woman VINO
hasn't her stays on, no matter how loose
they may be, is given very much to throw
ing herself in free and easy positions, that
are very apt to suggest free and easy con-
versatlon. know / am bridging down on
my head the wrath of the people who be-
lieve that the devil and the corset are in
combination. But, really, my friend, when
do women tell each other a great many
things they had much better keep to thern-
eaIUaG2 r niuhk vzhap ha IN tkva
aside, the easy wrapper assumed. and cons
versation is very confidential. If a woman
were braced up with well-fitting pair of
stays, she would have too much pride to tell
her intimate frIend OF her husbands weak
ness; but, take or the stays, lot her sit in
an easy attitude, her emotions are varied,
she gets little down, and she says what
she oughtnt to say, and gives confidence
that ought to be kept for her husbands ears
alone. So you see great deal more than
the Republican party dreams Of depends on
the cheapness of the well-6tting corsets.
WILL DRIVE Bah TO sMUGGLERY.
BY the by, did you ever meet one of these
lady-like gentlemen who wore long hair,
gave ore a large view of that piece of the
apple that stuck in Adams throat, and
which he has inherited, and who seems 60
spend his life In directing how beauteous
woman should be dressed2 He is accom-
BeAHAOG olWhJc ny bD0 laQY,
who cuts her hair short. wears q high. stiff,
white collar, that. if she ever had any
feminine white curves In her throat hides
them, and who is perfectly willing 20 In
dorse his views and give you few liberal
ones of her own. Nine times out of ten she
has written a book on some nasty topic, and
she is never 50 perfectly happy as when she
can talk about the purity of the mind and
the body inveighing against the vice of the
corset, and not knowing that its influence is
one Of the grearest factors toward dece ICY
and good behavior. It's Just possible that
some editor may think this is tout for a
corset house, which it isn't, for get mine
from the other side, and consequently feel
bitter toward anybody who wishes to raise
the duty on them, and now announce that
l win never pay it; ! will smuggle, first.
Well, there is some pleasure In that
WOMEN OVER THE TEA CUPS.
When two OF three women meet together
over a cup Of tea, good tea. then the sort of
club chat l like has met. You can speak
your mind without offending the president
say what you think without making the
treasurer feel that it's personal, and wear
what you please without undergoing the
silent criticism of about thirty pairs Of
eyes. This sort Of an affair was going on
the other day; the tea was good, and the
spoonful of sherry added to it did not de-
- @Se AtOLh AVS A0fSAs oAA VIC Queet1Ou 10 inc
fore was:
"What has knowledge done for women?"
The speechmaker of the party told how it
had made her a great painter, great
writer, a great scientist; how she had be-
come doctor a lawyer, a dentist: here.
ono small voice added, it was not necessary
to teach her to be a thief; and how the
great libraries were better filled, the great
newspapers made more valuable, and the
world at large altogether better because
women could write a prescription, could
give an opinion as to the law of things, pull
a tooth, and could stand in the pulpit and
preach and unite people In marriage.
WHAT If SHE WERE UNwoMANLY9
A young woman, who had lately wed
Charley, said that If a woman had married
her, she should not feel as IL she were prop,
erly bound to him, either in the sight of the
law or in heaven. She also brilliantly re-
marked:
"What would Charley think, If, when he
came home at o'clock from working down
town all day, he didn't find me in a pretty
gown, ready to make him as comfortable as
possible, and to kiss him and love him?
What would he think il / were writing
books instead of that! What would ne
think If | were running around pulling out
teeth What would ne think, If were sit
ting up on tower looking for stars to
come out and make scientist of myself"
The other two women agreed that Char
Icy would think she was pretty poor sort
OF wife, and that he would have right to