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corsets to see the holes IN antl-corse
arguments. There's Mary Wentworth
Mss Wentworth came over from her
dressing trunk.
I'm dressed now for a contortion
sct. and haven't my corsets on l don't
know any contortonist of first rank
who does wear them. But in every
thing else do i wouldn't think of GO
ing without them Yes, ! practice in
them as well as perform. l always
wear them in trapeze acts"
Miss Wentworth is one of the all
around performers, who is considered
to have a long career ahead of her, and
she expects to wear corsets to the end
Of her days.
Just then along came little woman
in pink, simply one bunch OF exquisite
muscles from neck to heels Come
here. Miss Julietta. You always wear
corscts, don't you?" called Miss Went
worth.
Il never go without them. But
what's all this about?"
"Why, you know there are folks who
are trying to get women to stop wear
ing corsets because it Injuries their
health explained Miss Wentworth.
Injuries the health? Look at me.
How could | do nv tricks If I WASH t
healthy? I've been training since L
was three years old, and have worn
corsets ever since / can remember. Do
I look as if they hurt me? See that, "
and Miss Julietta threw up a muscle on
her arms like rock, and took a couple
of deep breaths that We're like filling a
balloon. why, can do anything in
corsets," and the muscular little worn
an hurried to her corner to change her
dress, and in a few moments was say
ing good day.
Miss Julietta is a gymnast, an aero
bat and about everything else except q
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contortionist. She does a wonderful
high rope act now, where she jumps up
and down on the rope, changes her cos
tune, and keeps the audience breath
less, wondering why she doesn't shake
herself TO pieces.
Two aerial performers are Josie Ash
ton and Miss Potter. One works with a
partner on double flying trapeze, and
Miss Ashton in pendulating rings. Both
are devotees of corsets. 1t has become
the fad now among dances on the stage
to scorn corsets. Miss Girdeless per-
forms some eccentric dancing feats and
high kicking, which has been con-
sidered feasible only sans corsets.
Grotesque acrobatic tricks are com
bined with the dancing. All in cor
sets" she says, land couldn't be done
without them"
At this point little woman in street
clothes came in. An English sailor hat
was perched on an elaborate couture,
and as she appeared Miss Jeal called out:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-03
ALL WEAR CORSETS
Women Acrobats and Trepeze
Performers Incased in Steels.
8aformers, Take Notice-The Stars Of the
Circus Do Their Most Daring Acts
In the CorsetS, and Declare
Them indispensable.
lCoPYRIGHT, 1881

tCoPYRIGHT, 1881
HE first request
made of all girls
who go into a
gymnasium is
the surrender
OF co-sets. This
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-03
DOMESTIC DISoRO.
The Unpleasant Result of Simple Little
WifeIy Request

Inc Unpleasant Result OF a,Simple Little
WifeIy Request.
George, dear" said Mrs. Newlywed
the other evening just as they were
about to leave the house for the opera,
''I've left my fan on the dressing case
In my room, and l can't go without it.
Won't you go up and get it-that's q
dear"
George goes up three steps at time.
A moment later his voice comes down
awfully sharp for a man who has been
married but six months.
1T isn't on the dresser" he SAYS.
"Why, yes, it must be, dear. Look in
the upper drawer in that long, blue box
in the left-hand corner. Don't muss
things all up. 1t is there?"
mo, it isn't"
sob. it must be. Look good. Found
it?"
"No, haven't"
"Well, don't get cross about it. May.
be left it OF the hook. Is it there?"
'No; III be-
''Georgel If you can't do little IA
vor for your wife without swearing
about it you needn't do it at all. Look
in the second drawer of the dresser in
that pink box. Is it there?"
NO, it amt! knew it wasn't before
! looked"
You didn't know anything of the
sort. That's not the place. We're late
now. Look on the mantel. know 1
laid it there just now while 1 tied my
bonnet"
NO, it is not on the mantel. I'll
just be eternally-"
''Georgel If you swear again I'll
take off my things and stay at home!
If you'd look for the fan instead of
prancing around and swearing like a
trooper you'd find it. See if it is in
my bonnet box. Sometimes l drop it
IN there? Found it?"
Found it?'" snarls George, ieering-
". Talk about needle in hay
stack It's nothing compared to "a
George Newlywed! Just as sure as
you speak that way again III stay at
home. Look on. the chairs and the
table and what are you doing up
there? Upsetting chairs and kicking
over things and growing like some
wild animal. I'd be ashamed. l sup
pose III have to come and look for the
fan myself, tired as am. Can't you
End it?"
Find nothing! A man might as
well hunt for the north pole or Capt.
Kids treasure or a particular grain of
sand at the bottom of the sea as to
look for"
There, therel Stop making quite
such pitiful spectacle of yourself. If
/ were a man I'd be a mani Look in
the closet. Oh, here's the fan. l de-
clare if it hasn't been lying here on the
hall rack all the time. l remember now
that l laid it down when George
Newlywedl I'd be serving you right if
] didn't go q step with you. Swearing
like that! Come on-wretchl l suppose
you'll snarl and sulk all the way down
town." a prediction that was fully YER
ited.-Detroit Free Press
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see a woman without them unless she
was very slim aud compactly built. I
never heard of woman's being in
iured by broken corset steel. / got
my head smashed land rib broken in a
four-horse tandem hurdle race a year
ago, but the corset steels didn't even
scratch me. Even the lady clown wears
corsets, and she can turn somersaults,
backward fips and handsprings. She
doubles herself up.and rolls around the
ring, and all those, things that dress re-
formers would sayNvere impossible"
The Meers Sisters, who perform four
times within eight hours what would
seem to he most eXhaasting bareback
acts, and at the end of each number
still are able TO go into the dressing,
room smiling and joking looked scorn-
full at the mere idea of not wearing cor
sets.
"What silly notionl" one said.
ave never could do without them"
another exclaimed. "Corsets give the
back support. Sometimes a steel
srnashes, but that never stops u.s."
As to asking about injurious effects
on their three hearts, it was useless,
after seeing the trio make standing
leaps from the ground to va running
horses back. then perform an aero
batic dance and more feats ION horse
back without a breathing space appar.
emily.
Which all goes TO bear out the
speech of DIR. Mary Green, rof Detroit,
sprung on the dress-reform session of
the National Woman's council in
Washington, when she declared that
corsets, when properly worn, were not
injurious in any way, and that she
had even prescribed them. If DIR.
Green wants any arguments, get the
records of these champion women per
formers, who all wear corsetS.
Mrs. MCGUIRE.
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Not Mrs. Hobart.

A good story, illustrative of the pro-
sale nature on which art makes no inn
preston, is told by the,New YorklEvan-
geliSt: In the ''m0numept-room" at
Trinity church is thetlarge marble tab
let in memory of the late Bishop Eo-
bart 1t is reliefrepresenthg the
bishop-a portrait-in the agony of
death, sinking into the arms of an ale
gorical female figure, presumably in
tended for the Angel of Death. 1t is
said that an aged couple from the rural
districts were being shown abouts the
church, and, pausing long before lthe
tablet, the old lady remarked TO ther
husband: That's good likeness Of
the bishop, but" regarding the an
gelic parsonage attentively-''it's very
poor one of Mrs. Hobart. L knew her
wei, and she didn't look like that"
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EOlSON,S ADVENTURE.
Bow the Great Inventor Saved the Life
of Child.

of Child.
The authors OF ''The Life and Inven-
tons of Edison" tell good story of the
manner in which their hero once saved
the life of a child at the risk Of his own.
He was then the newsbcy OF. q train
running between Port Huron and De-
troit. The station agent at Mount
| Clemens had boy year and a-half
old, with whom Edison-"Al," as he
was called-was fond of playing during
the half hour or rlore that the train
stopped at that station.
On summer forenoon, while the train
was being taken apart and made up
anew, car was uncoupled and sent
down the track with no brakeman to
control it. Edison, who had been look
ing at the fowls in the poultry yard,
| turned just in time to see little Jimmie
On the main track, throwing pebbles
over his head, utterly unconscious of
danger.
Al dropped his papers upon the plat
form, seized the child in his arms, and
threw himself off the track, face down
ward, in sharp, fresh gravel ballast,
without a second to spare. As it was,
the wheel of the car struck the heel Of
his boot.
II was in the ticket Office" says the
chiId's father, "and, hearing shrek,
ran ont in time 10 see the train hands
bringing the two boys 10 the plat
form"
Having no other way OF showing his
gratitude, the agent said:
''Al, if you will stop off here four
days in the week, and keep Jimmie out
of harms way until the mixed train re-
turns from Detroit, l win teach you
telegraphing."
"Will you?" said Edison.
II will"
He extended his hand and said: cts
a bargain" and SO Edison became
telegrapher.
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9''H6T do You SO, Miss Pihk Cheeksp
Do you wear corsets?"
''Miss Pink Cheeks" who is one Of
the flying billions, looked surprised at
such a question, and dropped into her
dressing chair.
DO you wear corsets IN your act?"
NO, don't"
The girls looked surprised as she
went on. Il never have worn them
while performing"
Why, you look just as if you did
when you walk into the ring"
II know it: that is because every
muscle in my body has been developed.
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hanging limb of a large tree II,
front Of a farmhouse. On the lamb
were several turkeys al roOst- The
exhaust steam was SO strong that IL
knocked hen turkey from her erch
and she came down upon the bell rope.
The bell rang and the engineer
brought the train 20 halt. Them, Of
course, the conductor fastened forward
10 know what was the matter, and one
OF the crew discovered the bird still
fitting upon the rope and giving utter
ance 70 notes which, il is far toFpre-
sumo, were expressive Of surprise.
The men set Up a rear, says the Phil
sdelphis Ledger, the bird took wing
ana the engine again began 70 puff.
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ter how cleverly the satttr has been re-
vived. Rubbing the eyelids in bath
of cologne and water sometimes bright
ems them, but the South American
women squeeze orange juice into the
eye to obtain briniancy of their orbs.
If the undiluted juice stings too.severe-
" it can be weakened, and still a good
~esult is promised
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-03
USE OF FACE PAINTS.
Harmless. Artidotes Against Facial Evil
depre OF Fatigue.

As severe as the verdict is against the
use OF concoctions that give artificial
coloring 70 the face it remains fact.
says an exchange, that tired women
do resort 70 a few harmless anti
dotes against the facial evidences
Of fatigue Touching up the lips faint
j. with rosaline is one method INDUCED
IN. This ointment does not color them
materially but it sottens, lending a
richness and fexibility that contact
with the wind has driven away. It's
use also prevents chapPing, Il one Is
going again into the air.
Some women saturate the lips with
cologne TO bring the blood, but the
trick Is unadvisable. Alcohol scorehes
the tender skin
Color in the checks IS provided for By
the no. water. but the ere Is an sgETa-
waiting feature when tired Is cuilness
throws . daucer- on H. tsc--G e Z
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request Is sup
ported py physicians, who declare it
utterly impossible to do good gym"
work in corsets.
Dress reforrners tell how injurious to
health the corset is; how the action Of
the intcrcostal muscles IS prevented;
how the floating ribs are crushed, how
the lower portion of the lungs is par
Rlyzed, but here is fact that they viii
find some trouble in explaining salts
factorily. The champion women aero
bats, equestriennes, trick and bareback
riders. eqrilibrists, aerial specialists
and trapeze performers wear corsets.
They do their most wonderful acts in
corsets. Contortionists are the only
class who habitually work withNsst
them.
These women are the most energetic
of their sex, noted for their endurance,
nctivity, fine physical development, and
especially for length of wind. Now,
if corsets are such deadly articles, why
don't they take effect on the queens of
the sawdust ring?
Imagine being introduced suddenly
into the dressing-room of Barnum q
Baiiey's circus, where fifteen stellar
performers of whom you had intended
to ask: "Do you wear corsets?" Fad just
reached the corset stage in their tot
lets. Every one of the fifteen had either
just clasped on a pair or was about to
do so. The sight was convincing. No
questions were necessary.
sob, you do, don't you?" was the
natural exclamation.
''Do wbat?" asked young woman in
lavender tights.
The wardrobe woman, D!lo was the
tntruder's chaperone, made a speech.
Ladies, this newspaper woman
wants to know how many OF you wear
corsets when in the ring, and if the
most difficult feats can be performed in
them"
Then LavendersTights, who was
recognized as Linda Jeal, who flies
through paper hoops and does daring
bareback hurdle act, said:
Everybody that know of wears
them. I'd have broken back if 1
didn't, and guess all the others would.
There's nothing the matter with cor
sets if they aren't laced to death. II
left them off I'd never be able to do a
thing"
Don't they disturb the action Of
your heart? Can you use your inter
costal muscles?"
''Well, I've been in the business over
twenty years and guess I'd have been
dead before now If corsets affected the
heart, and I've got the use Of about
every muscle there is in my body" and
the girls all joined in'Miss Jeal's merry
laugh as she turned to them for con-
frInation.
''Of course, you can't use the lower
part OF your lungs IN breathing. No
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-03
THE COFFEE CUP.
senething of the History OF This Com
mon Tteusti


mon Ctensi.
Historically speaking the cup-in the
sense of tea or coffee cup-is he young
est member of the European ceramic
family. and its form cannot be traced
back TO classic antiquity, ssys Home
and Country. a well-known writer
refers TO the ancient Greek kvathos as
the probable ancestor OF our present
cup.
Although the kyathos had a single
handle it was used as a pitcher and
not 10 drink directly from Even after
the introduction OF tea into Europe
had become general-thzt Is, during
the latter half Of the seventeenth cen
tury-tea cups were scarce. Almost
simultaneously coffee gained a toot-
hold IN Europe, having probably been
introduced from AbySsiniA. Asa Minor
and Arabia Still, apart from Con-
stantinQple, he first zee Guns =
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An enthusiastic art student % wash
ingtOn, D. g, suggests that hypnosis
NAV be an invaluable factor in art.
Certain II : that every attitude expres-
sive Of the deepest emotions can be In
duced n the casalsptic state. There Is
a degree OF reasonAbleaess IN the suG-
gestio1. and another Geld for the Use %
bypnOtIsn may have been found
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"Yss- :he lteTz y ts1Arsisr za. sar
sny a. tAs Cheerful Lido. sn.e-,a las
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said: So didn't take to wearing corsets
until was twenty years old, but l
think you'll find that most women per-
formers, unless they are contortionists,
wear corset intothe ring. There may
be little fondness for making a good
appearance, and nobody would want to
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sag III return them IS soon a. can
Town Topics
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Texas town:
Owing 20 :he low price Il cotton,
ali wool suits marked down 70 g.. %. -
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TURKEY STOPS A TRAIN.
She Comes Down the Bell Rope and
BOOSTS There

BOOSTS Ihere
Swar1ns of locusts are well known to
have stopped railway trains, but up to
this time it was probably never heard
that single turkey had the power TO
accomplish that feat But it was done
in Oxford, Pa.
The engine was putting hard on an
up grade, and passed under an over
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