The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-27
GARMENTS And MORALS.
4 Cultured Lady Who Vas Selling
Reformed COTSgtS."


The True Philosophy of These Articles
Of Dress-Why the Corsets Of the New
Woman Are a FIat-Footsd Failure.
Corsets That Really Fit-Ths Women
That Have Most Influenced Mankind.
I Speaking of True GentlevEomen = a
Budget of Pertinent Questions for
Readers to Answer-They Deal With
Subjects Widely Apart = Daughters
and Postage Stamps, Wrinkles and
kilograms. Lovers and Husbands.
New York. Jan. Pit came about in
this way. The street door OF the fat had
. become demoralized and preferred 10 stay
open and invite book peddlers. tramps.
I beggars and people We don't want to see
al all to appear suddenly and demand
civility. We had entertained a tramp at
breakfast. the cook had subscribed to a
religious monthly. ny maternal parent
was doing up package of tea for per
feet lady" who snelt strongly Of whisky.
but who denied that she had ever tasted
it. and asked for bi, Of tea TO fetch her
up. Then. the Independent woman con-
fronted me. I was perfectly helpless as
she seated herself in the most comfort
able chair in the room and began to talk.
she was selling reformed corsets on the
installment plan. and incidentally she was
telling Of the pleasures Of independence.
. She told ire that, with 10 tyrant near
her 10 order her about, she made her
coffee on gas stove and provided her
I breakfast out of tin sardine box and
glass jar of ginger snaps. She counted
this as one of the pleasures Of independ-
ence. She told me she had furnished her
fiat by utilizing packing boxes and she
seemed to think had made a great mis-
take in not following the direction given
in the "Woman's Column" of the Daily
Howler' as to how one could live on seven
cents a day, save six. dress like a lady.
ard be highly cultured, and recognize the
uselessness of the tyrant man.
She said if l had par OF her corsets
my heart would throb in unison with her
desire for freedom. l felt that my heart
had done quite throbbng enough that
day, owing to the appearance of a mouse
who transcribed all other mice in his i'm
pudence, and made faces at me while 1
wept. But. to return TO the corsets. which
l am sure nobody would ever do if they
had either seen them or tried them on.
They ceased at the waist line, and had a
queer accumulation of straps and buckles
calculated to leave their imprint on one 5
skin, while they were made of a hideous
gray stun, that she said wouldn't show the
dirt! That was nice reason for buying
them. As if people would wear things,
really nice people women people. that
We're soiled and yet didn't show il. She
said she felt from the way | talked that
l was behind the times. She felt that /
did not understand the uses of a moral
corset, and was probably given over 70
some brocaded thing that came from the
land whore vice reigns Very appropriate
ly. a colored lady who was cleaning win
dows in the next house, began to sing. in
what might be called a strident voice
and with broad twang that would have
delighted the soul Of a Boston woman
this couplet:
THE ladies in France they want to wear
pants;
But they can't do it. yosI know"
This made the Independent lady angry
which was not right. and she departed
talking to herself and quite convinced
that l had given my neighbors maid a
tip as to what melody she should choose
But ] was quite innocent.
However, the independent lady went
next day to a club meeting, and spoke
of me as weak and having no moral
backbone Honestly. | don't think /
have. And that is why I prefer TO wear
a good pair of stays, well-shaped and
PRETTY to look upon. Every woman
should desire to have properly fitting
stays, and by properly hitting ones ]
mean those that are agreeable to her.
A fairly we'll fitting corset never hurt
any woman, but those that are not well
made. that are too tight about the waist
too loose about the bust. and IN Jumps
, about the hips, will not only spoil the
figure and make the bodice fit badly
and look ugly, but they are absolutely
uncomfortable.
Ones stays should fit every part OF
the figure perfectly. hold the bust Ur
slightly, and be as smooth over the hips
as if they were the skin itself They
should not need to be pulled together
to fit in the back. If this must be done
they are too tight for you. The strings
may need little Grawing-just little
but that you should have to pull anC
pull or that a couple of inches of space
with null or silk coming between them
in small Jumps should exist, prove that
you have bought the wrong number, and
that you really need pair of stays two
sizes larger.
The woman whose figure needs i'm
provement should never buy a pair OF
corsets that are too large in the bust
Have them, instead, fit YOU exactly, and
then the additional flesh that you may
need will be put in by your dressmakeI
in the form of cotton or curled hail
One has the recommendation of softness
the other Of lghtness. The dress re-
, former offers in the place of q corset a
bodice bulky with thick cords, shapeless
certain to be uncomfortable on account
of the buttons, and certainly of no use
in bracing one up. It rather suggests to
my mind the iron-stayed corsets worn
by that historical parsonage, Catherine
de Medici.
BY the by, aren't you getting horribly
tired of hearing in the drawing room
at the theater and from between the
book covers, about the woman with Z
past? There is too much talk about hel
and too many Of her, and the free discus
sion as to her doings is extremely unde
sirable Women talk about her exactly
as if she were the most immaculate per
son. Indeed, they seem almost TO worship
her Now, any woman who has been un
, fortunate enough TO have led a wrone