Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-04-10

IrreparsbIs Injury Done by Tight Lao
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II is matter for rejoicing that fashion
is no longer 10 decree q slender waist az
something indispensable 80 propriety
| and grace. The natural waist of the
woman of average height is about %
inches, and any less size is attained
only through arrested development, or
compression Of means of wnalebone and
steel. The amount Of room inside these
20 inches is absolutely needed for the
proper working Of the machinery of
the internal economy. In spite OF this
fact girls very often bind the yielding
RIBS into such narrow compass that the
waist measures 20 or % inches only,
and you viii now and then hear some
mother of a family, with a very differ
cnt waist now. boast as IL it were some
thing 20 be proud of that when she was
10 her waist measure was 10 too. Ii is.
however, Of no use to talk to youngpeo-
pie about the injurious effect of com
preston on stomach, heart, lungs, liver
and the arterial system. They are not
anatomists, and they do not compre-
bend the matter nor want to do so:
they observe that they feel as well now |
as they did before, and without weigh !
ing the thought that il requires time /
10 work ruin, take il for granted that |
they always will feel as well, although |
they have been told and taught that in
post-mortem examinations it has been
found that wherever tight Iacing has
been the rule, every organ was out of
nal t..t
though 10 does move them trihe TO be
told that red noses and eruptive skins
and fiat chests are 10 be laid TO the ac-
count Of the too slender waist, vet on
the whole neither common-sense nor
luld-wife wisdom nor doctors have the
power OF conviction that fashion does.
md when fashion says that there is no
beauty in wasp's waist, but that the
ines OF nobility and health made by
ieep breathing are the really lovely
ines, fragility being something rather
% be feared than loved, why then
ragility begins to be avoided, and the
ines of the Venus de Milo, OF the Diana.
Il the Pallas, begin TO come in.
The habit of tight lacing has already
one almost irretrievablc injury. If it
we're continued there is no knowing
hat shape It might eventually have
eveloped Even no sculptors declare
hat model with a natural waist,
Looping outward rather than inward.
! something not TO be found, even the
'ost charming figures otherwise hav-
" the hour-glass tendency, in how
YER slight n form sufficient to spoil
lem for posing for anything de-
landing the freedom, the beauty and
race OF the antique. The Greek
oman supported and stayed her
If with bands of linen, but there
as no compression in the swathe, and
n natural waist made her of perfect
'auty; and to-day the natural waist
the Circassian does not interfere with
e reputation of her loneliness. The
loption of European dress by ladies'
the harem, and of Japan, showing,
it does, either Il want Of the knowl-
&c OF true beauty or a willful aban-
OF its principles, will prob
Is lead to tight lacing in the orient
ST as we are relinquishing it here. r
" by anyone should ever have imag-
'd that q waist which looked as if IL
ne going to break in two could be
IRE attractive than waist which |
Iked capable of supporting it's head
d arms and shoulders is a mystery
great mystery that the effort to
We it Is TO be given up in satisfac-
n over the report that the foreign
ators of the mode have recently
,ed themselves the question if the
.pc that the Creator chose for the
man body was one they could inn
've.--Ilarpcr's Bazaar.