The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-23


unfortunate husband whom she controls
into voting the Prohibition ticket, while
she wonders that anybody should prefer
which looks like glue and tastes like
paste. Ten to one she's crank at inter-
walls on the subject of reform. and makes
herself an object--spelled with q big 20"
by carrying out her theories.
The feminine crank positively objects
to the corset. She wears boned bodice.
which points a moral and adorns a tale.
She is utterly shapeless, and her appear
ance is enough to drive the feminine wo-
man to tight lacing, which would be
wrong. In summer time she looks hot.
If she is stout her appearance is inn
proper, because it's unbeautiful. And if
she's ahin she looks like a planked shad.
She's usually uncomfortable, though she
wouldn't confess it to save her soul.
/ have said about million times, more
or less, that well-fitting corset hurts no
one. All this talk about having skirts
suspended from the shoulders of women
is really nonsense of the worst kind The
Lord didn't build women that way. He
made their hips broad that they might
sustain any weight that was necessary.
This is the truth, and if truth is mighty
and really does prevail. then, in some
happy future the desirability of the
well-ftting corset will be recognized. All
those nasty, ill-ftting health bodices re-
mind me Of the men who won't have y
glass of wine i'm their own houses, but
are very happy to drink it when visiting.
They haven't independence enough to do
the right thing. and they compromise on
the nanny pamby. It's rather funny that
there are no women in this world rs heal
thy as the English women, and no wo-
men who lace much. The French wo-
men and the American women have, nat
uraly. broader hips and smaller waists.
so that to attain the fashionable, which
is not the hour-glass shape, no lacing
is required. But the English woman,
with her narrow hips and broad shout
ders, needs to make her waist smaller Ia
achieve the shape that she desires: and
yet, where are there women who bring
into the world finer sons. physically. than
the English women? That is one of the
very best answers when objections are
made to the corset. The best specimens
as FAR as size and beauty CO. of English
men, are not what clever girl called
''tailor-made." but to coin an expression
| ''mothermade."
It's very easy to say, put on comfy
gown AID read an interesting book. but
first you must catch your book. Why
doesn't somebody write really interest
| ing book? What has become of the
people with imaginations? Is there no
| body to succeed Dumas and Charles
Reade. Wilke Collins and Dickens, GabO
iau and Balzac--this mingling may seem
odd. yet it covers a class Of books that
interested everybody Doesn't anybody
know how to write book that will get
me up to such pitch OF excitement that
ones heart beats quicker waiting for the
denouement. and the blood courses
| through ones veins, while sympathy
hate, and love are touched upon like the
strings of a harp in rapid succession
These old stories, probable or not. took
one out Of ones self and kept alive tn,
natural feelings. Why doesn't somebod!
write something where there is continual
change and where forty pages are moi
given to Analysing what the herOin,
| thought OF the herO's appreciation OF
music: FIVE to her disappointment wheI
she found lit did not agree with hers. anC
five more to their last meeting, wherein
we are generally told exactly how h'
held his hat. how she looked out from
nder hers, and how. bidding each Other
farewell. they walked off. or out into thu
unknown world? BY the time | have
gotten this far / read no more. trustin.
that then and there they stumble an'
break their necks and are never heard %
again. And the childrens books!
IN my memory there is stored the pie
IRE of three small children gazing in de
light at the representation of Il defian
young man. standing before his father
said father being the typical households
with mutton-chop whiskers, while under
meath was this expression
Robinson Crusoe wants to roam;
My SON." says his father, stay a
home
1t was the story of Robinson Crusot
told in verse that gave so much pleasure
AT first Friday, in his savage get-up, was
orr special chum, but afterwards. trans
formed by Robinson Crusoe into civil
ized being, with a high hat and Il dres
suit. he became almost godlike to on
childish eyes. The possession of thes'
clothes we explained in the same wa!
that we did the rather slovenly Mothe
Hubbard gown and smalIshopping bal