The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-26
cesar EVIL OF TIE AGE.
a Medical Warning
NJ the IA

,onn Ellis, NJ. D., author Oh '"'
sV Causes Of Diseases" ,oidable
r.oon;nr simply at ther
nment. health, sS" ,nyslcal devel-
merice and perpetuity OF the
a sa - aa- IAN people, it is perfectly
a.o = that tight dressing. as is
'Eac' led to-day among the women and
gy,.I.is of u country, is the greatest evil
that exists. When the writer was a
boy, seventy years ago, tight dressing
among women was principally contned
to the waist and chest, but to day 1T IS
carried down as low as possible towards
the hips. Of late years we have adver-
tised, by the manufacturers or their
agents, cOrsets for Contracting and
elOngating the waist" and we see the
sad results of their use in tho deformed
women all around us.
Kind reader, you who care Tor the
welfare Of our race, please look at the
distorted figures which are intended to
represent fashionable women to be seen
in our periodicals, and ven in some Of
u daily papers, and which are freely
sent to and admitted into the homes
where dwell girls, young women and
their mothers. With such illustrations
before them, what is more natural than
that the young girls should feel that
their bodies should be forced into the
shape represented in the fashion plates
before them, and too many mothers are
anxious that their daughters should be
know very we'll that the natural human
form can only be thus distorted by the
e of cOrsets, tight dresses or ban
dages, applied to their girls while young,
so as to f0rcibly restrain the natural de-
velopment and growth of the waist, alb
domen, and hips, mechanically as the
chinese fashionable mother prevents the
growth Of the feet Of her girls.
In the symmetrical, well-formed wo-
man the hips are much broader in pro-
portion to the breadth of the shoulders
than they are in men, but when the de-
velopment of the waist and abdomen
are mechanically prevented from ex.
banding, the muscles which extend
from these structures to the bones OF
the pelvis being thus bound down, they
hold in and prevent the full develop
ment Of the pelvls. In many Of our
in proportion to The shoulder than it is
ia men. This defOrmity is ~far-reaching
in it's consequences.
Now, intelligent reader, just look at
the pelvis or hips and abdomen of our
fashionable women as represented in
the fashion plates in our periodicals
with the pelvis thus formed, and the
bowels crowded down upon the organs
within it, judge for yourselves, what
chance is there for an orderly develop.
ment of the unborn child in that free
dom which the Lord intended for il
when he created woman? What are
the results all aroundq Unnecessary
suffering and danger attend child bear.
ing in a vast number of cases, and pre-
mature births.are not infrequent. Only
and functional arrangements which sc
frequently result from tight dressing
all profitable to the doctors, but, alas
entailing suffering upon SO many of oul
women, especially wives and mothers
Nor are the diseases and suffering causr
ed by tight dressing confined to thu
lower portion Of the body.
DR.. Mary Wood Allen in The Journa
Of Hygiene and Herald Of Health in al
excellent article on "Round ShouldeIe(
Girlsn says, in regard to the organs with
in the trunk or chest and abdomen
'.They are packed by the hand of Di
vine skill and to interfere with them j
q matter Of vital import" Deformit,
Of the shoulders is common, and a won
derful ~lessening Of the capacity Of thu
lungs for breathing is an inevitable re
suit Of this evil habit.
DR.. Nathan Allen, of Lowell, VIII,
made careful Investigation into tn
facts, said in the Popular Science Month
" that while in 1850 it was the excep
ton where an American mother couii
not nurse her children, it was then (1883
in Massachusetts q question whethe
0ne-haf of them could do so, and it il
safe to say that there has been no inn
provement since the above date. VIII,
this inability to nurse children9 First
the waists Of the women Of our countr,
had never been compressed and elon
gated to the extent they have bee
since 1850. The irritation and compress
sion caused BY c~0rsets, stays, and tigh
dresses applied to young ladies. some
which, when these organs begin to se
crete n0urishment for the child, inham
and Assesses result, which interior
with nursing; and then the compression
OF stays, cOrsets, etc., often causes a re
traction of the organs through whicl
the child derives it's n0urish ment ; whicl
renders it difficult for the child to nurse
Palpitati0n and other arrangements o
the hearts action often result from tigh
dressing. Second, there is often a wan
OF lung capacity to properly removals
and purify the blood, owing to tigh
dressing, and an inability to digest th
food required to sustain the vitality o
the body, owing to the composed stat
Of the stomach and bowels. Third, ow
ing to the want Of an adequate base 70
the due support of the head, shoulders
and arms. resulting from the contrac
ton OF the waist and abdomen, it is diff
ficuIt for our women to take the activ,
work which are. necessary to give th
vitality and strength required by
mother of children. THE worker
shall inherit the earth"
Han the Alliance Been Sold Out Again
B. r. Capital item.
Now, as to the Alliance vote for Mi
Caffery, The Item has taken this posi-
ton which we believe to be a cOrreC
one: The Alliance throughout til
country has advocated d silver polio
and has demanded the passage of o.
anti-optiOns law to prohibit gamblin
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