Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-01-11


their beliefs and that from the most UNI
looked for s0urce-the french. Inc
cable announces that Yvette Guilbcrt
has been obliged to submit to a grave
onerafion. no less than the removal of
a kidney. because of injuries to 1t from
wearing tight corsets. She Is recover
ing and says that henceforth she will
abandon corsets and join the crusade
against their use. When one remem-
bers the marvelously small waist that
seemed to accentuate all of her grotes-
queries, the contrast is all the more
striking.
One thing is sure, that the world is
slowly waking up to the knowledge
that the wearing of corsets is the
browning reason why woman is the
chief support of the DOCTORS" and
while the poor victim who serves to
point the moral and adorn the tale is
TO be commiserated, yet one must take
the philosophical view of the most
good to the greatest number"
Now and then a doctor is found who
has fought bravely and we'll against
this foe to the future race, but for the
most part they cater to the whims Of
the fashionable women who are the
source of their income.
The practice of the ancient Greeks of
putting away their MANNED, dwarfed
and diseased children, that they might
not perpetuate their physical defects,
shows how early the Jaw of inheritance
was realized. Strength and perfection
of the body was the ideal of the Greeks
At the present time this has been lost
sight of in a more thorough develop
ment of the intellectual The most
rapid progress must unite the two. DR.,
Kellogg says "it is common to speak
of women as the weaker vessel but
can see no reason why we'll developed
woman may not equal in endurance a
man of the same size and develop
ment."
Savage Women Strong.
This is generally true of the males
and females of the lower animals;
equally among the savage tribes where
the women do most of the har work
The Mexican woman cultivates the
ground, cares for her household, cooks
the meals, makes the clothing of hei
lazy lord and rears his children, and
when moving day comes on, trudges of
with all her household goods piled on
her shoulders and the youngest mem
bers of the family piled upon it all
Stanley says The strongest and most
enduring porters found in Africa were
women. In Germany the peasant
woman tolls beside her husband and
appears to be as healthy as though
she We're a man. In France it is not
unusual to see line of men digging a
trench and a woman at the head of the
line breaking ground.
Imperfect and unsymmetrical devel-
upment is the cause which lies at the
door of large proportion of the sexual
diseases to which the American woman
are subject, and much of this must be
charged to the wearing of clothing
which renders healthy activity of the
muscles of the trunk an impossibility
If civilized women would adopt
some Of the physical habits of savage
women and would dress in such man
ner as to secure To themselves the
same freedom of muscular movement
in every part of their bodies. they
would be as free from pelvic disease as
are the hardy women of the forest, who
compete so successfully with theil
brothers in the fierce struggle for ex
istence which are incident to an I'M
civilized life,
To those who regard dress as a tri
vial and unimportant question. littl
can be said which will prove convinc
ing concerning aesthetic principles 70
sensibility must be cultivated: bu
fortunately for the future Of correc
dress, these are in the minority, an
the triumph of utility and beauty wi
follow naturally upon the heels G
growing refinement and artistic cu1
tnre.
From the time of Gaen to IN
present day in spite of all the anath,
mas hurled against it and in spite {
the fact that all the departments {
medical science recognize and denounC
the great injury which woman doe
herself the corset has prevailed. I'll
word-famed Virchow said: What
the use OF Introducing the principle
and appliances of hygiene Into III
huts Of the poor and ignorant when ii
scions of wealth. pretending INTEL
gence and fashion, especially of tn
gentle sex show their contempt of h!
giene by their dress and gener;
wearing apparel, In days gone by
nave battled against the dlabolical il
vention called the corset, but this crl
SADIE has been given up by me as al
solutely futile"
Doctors Assail the Practice.
Sweininger of Berlin, Minert of Dres
den. Belts of Boston. Bayard Holme
OF Chicago and last of all Dudley ar
active In fighting the corset. DIR. Dud
ley in his new book writes very in
teresting chapter on beauty, economy
health, comfort and. to the properl
educated sense. beauty. all combine
on the side of proper dress He says
~ is marvellous that monstrosities o
fashion have so completely over