The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-03-22
a CURSE IN THE CORSET.
a Minister Wife says II Is nS Great an
Evil to Women ms Rum Il To Aleu,

n Mlhistcr's WIG says IL Il n Great an
Evil to Women ms Rum Ia Ia 0len.
RinGAon DtTGtch IN NcV York Herald,
Mrs. lluizinSs Is the vice president oil
tho Ulster County Temperance Union
and the wife Of tho Roy. o. II. lIuizinGa,
oil Now Paltz, She is highly cultivated
and has n commanding presence. The
convention which was held in the new
st. James Methodist Church here bus
just closed, but her paper is still the
tlOmO Of h most lively aud general dis
cus6iOn.
Tho paper was entitled physician,
Heal ThygOlf," III which the essentially
feminine vice vas handled in q plain
and pointed manner. Shu said:-"lhe
human body is the most beautiful Of
created objects. |. IS strong, delicate,
supple and graceful. This applies pre-
eminently 10 the female form; but
while woulan seems 10 be satisilod with
the way God made the trees, flowers
and animals, she ia not satisfied with
the way lie made her body, so she seeks
TO improve perfection.
SIlo lIubLa NOu W alliUC Hllu pun
tho universe, but not her body. for
which he put Il sufficient number OF
bones inside her body to hold it erect,
she. lorsooth, must supplement them
with 4 layer OF bones outside TO change
and improve the outside OF the figure.
So VIC have tina: abomination known us
the corset.
History tolls us that as nations have
grown wealthy and %extravagant, the
people giving themselves up to the
excuses OF all kinds, the corset has
been laced tight, and even tighter, rs
the climax OF irivolity approached. The
consumption OF corsets in America, not
including those imported. is said 10 be
sixty millions yearly. What does this
argue for tho state OF morals in our
country? 1t is said that national dress
keeps pace with national history. Both
begin in simplicity and end in voluptu.
business.
but, OIL. HOW DIFFERENT.
Tight lacing has been n OF The
high water marks OF the seli-indulgent
period. The body, when encasea in
stiff bones or tight lacing OF any kind,
is incapable OF graceful motion. noalth-
jul exercise arG ability 10 perform the
work OF life.
The Venus OF Milo,' tho acknowi-
edged Standard oil beauty OF form, has q
waist about twice the girth OF the mod
ern belle, and the u~ndulating lines and
curves OF the statue flow into each
other, revealing great refinement OF
curvature and iulpcrceptible gradual
lion.
How different is the corset made
form, with high, square shoulders, waist
like an hour glass, hips extremely
prominent, an artificial and ungainly
attire!
III your horacs, cattle and dogs were
subjected to the cruel treatment young
women intlict upon themselves the
newspapers and the officers for the pre-
vention OF cruelty to animals would be
on the tracks OF the guilty parties. But
why should women exhaust their vital.
ity by injurious modes OF dressing?
oh, it's the fashion, comes the reply.
But what is fashion that her laws
should be obeyed in defiance OF all the
laws OF beauty, fitness. true grace and
health? Ii abe declares that woman
shall wear a hump at her back, wide
crinoline skirts trailing in tho dust and
a waist like q wasp, there seens to De
no resistance. The plates and faehion
papers of the day represented only car
features OF the female form.
IT DwARFS THE oUL
"The corset curse among women is
| more insidiou, than tho drink curse
among men. Both sins seek to extenu-
| ate themselves on tho plea OF modera.
| ton. 4 woman al no more be trusted
with n corset than n drunkard with q
glass OF whisky.
"Morc harm to the health and vitality
| OF oar race as n whole is dono by cor.
sets than by rum. This article OF cloth
ing violates the laws OF coed health. II
weakens the body, cnfeebles tho mind
and dwarfs the soulw
Tho large audience which listened
earnestly to the reading OF the paper
was divided in its views on the corset
| question, and many a tight-laced woman