St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-10
HEALTH AND BEAUTY.
Mrs. Annie Jenness-Miller Talks
on These Subjects to Our

Mrs. Annie Jenness-Miller Talks
on These Subjects to Our
Women.
Mrs. Annie Jenness Miller talked to
several hundred women at the Peoples
church yesterday afternoon, and,
strange to say, there were handful of
men among her audience. who seemed
as much interested as the women in
what the lovely disciple Of art and Del
sarte had to say on the subject of more
rational garb for women.
Her first appearance was made in the
beautiful hand-embroidered robe, made
for her by the Turkish Compassion
Fund. an association formed for The pur-
pose of giving work to distressed Turk
lsh women. 1t is indeed work of art,
being robe front OF Brussels net. ex-
Quisitely embroidered. in dull oriental
celOrS. with a sweeping train Ell Wat
teau, Of buttercup-yeliow brocade. Mrs.
Miller has a beautifully nodded figure,
and in this gown looked like the pici-
ures of the court beauties of France in
the time of Louis XVII
Speaking earnestly On the laying
aside of the corset, Mrs. Miller said:
Don 90 away and quote me as say
ing that l think the style of dress that l
advocate is going to make the women
look better all at once, tor they won't.
They will probably look great deal
worse at first, until they learn to sup
port their bodies without help from
outside sources. Women always COM
plain that they
go All Together,
when they attempt to sit down without
the support of a corset. Watch me.
Now do l 20 all together?' Well, that
is the result of daily exercise that
strengthens the muscles of this vital
part of the body and enables a woman
to sit up straight without other than
natural aids. A man needs no artificial
help to sit up properly. and yet, if we
were to dress men for few years as
women are dressed all their lives,
they would be helpless invalids
inside of a very few years; and
| really think if it is essential that
either wear these corSets, bands or
ligaments about the waist, it should be
the man; for hesdOeS not have to mother
the race, and his health would cut less
figure in producing strong descendants
than that of the mother" The men
present looked as though they didn't
take much stock III this theory, although
Mrs. Miller paid them a deserved rib
ute Immediately after by saying that
they were the most ehivalrous men on
earth. always unfolding the women of
this country in whatever they under
! took.
Many lOng-Suffering husbands will
scarcely credit the statement, but it took
Mrs. Miller exactly three minutes to
leave the platform, walk some distance
around into her dressing room, change
her costume and return to the waiting
audience. She made eight of these light
| ming changes in the course of the after
noon, looking more charming, if pos
Sible, in each new gown, with the single
exception of the
Rainy-Day Costume.
This is short gown, reaching about
| to the knees, made of navy blue cloth or
! flannel, and intended to be worn with
overgaiters reaching to the knees also.
With this girlish-leoking suit goes a
| little hood fitting Snugly around the
| face, with a cape like the old-fashloned
sunbonnets. The costume is completed
by heavy donble-breasted coat; and in
this costume, which is striking, to put
il mildly, Mrs. Miller goes abroad in
] New York in rainy weather, for she says
there is no better cosmetic maDutact-
ured than the rain drops pure and
| simple.
| She roasted the ''traln." for street
wearing, to standstill; and SAID that