Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-01-11

beauty shall we choose the natural
lines of beauty of the body or the arti-
fetal lines of the corset, the garment
fitted to the woman or the woman mt
ted to the garment? Imagine the at
tempt to add TO the dignity OF the lion
or to the beauty and grace OF the grey
hound by the use Of artificial means TO
change the natural lines OF their body.
Throwing aside the all-control-
| ling bias OF fashion, who snail
say that woman is so inferior to the
lower animals In form and figure that
| she must be taken in in some places
and let out in others?
| One Of the most serious Of the OBJ
stacles in the prevention and cure OF
disease in woman is fashion in dress.
So long as sensible dress appears
eccentric and excites ridlcule women
will adhere to the prevailing mode and
viii therefore be hampered not only
in the pursuit OF recreation and exer-
else but also in the performance Of
more essential physiological functions.
Under such conditions fashion must
continue to prevail against strong
nerves, powerful muscles and robust
health,
As soon as the girl passes from the
nursery to the drawing room and the
dress Of childhood is changed for the
dress Of fashion some Of the evils OF
civilization become manifest. She can
not run, walk, or even breathe without
embarrassment. The fact that woman
has endured and survived the tyranny
OF dress for centuries without more
serious results, says Emmett, is con-
vncing proof Of her power Of endur-
ance
Three Conditions Required.
The prevention and cure Of the dis
eases peculiar to women require the
fulallment Of the three powerful prin-
ripal conditions in her dress
J. Even distribution for uniform
protection against cold and wet
2 Freedom from waist construction. |
8 Freedom from traction.
Dudley calls the bands about the |
waist torrld zone Of whalebone, cor
set steels skirts and other cumber-
some material and has estimated that
there are thirty-fOur feet Of this band |
age worn ordinarily in the bands
about the waist At this point the
human form has no bony structure to
protect 10, but the compression comes ]
upon the muscles of the soft parts Of
the trunk.
As the nat-headed woman watches
with interest and growing pride the
depression OF her infants
skull, while from day to day she binds
more tightly upon 10 the fattened disc
OF wood. and the Chinese woman
slories i'm the shriyeled and misshapen
stump of what was once her child's
foot, as a developing mark Of aristo-
cratic gcntiity. in like manner does
the civilized mother pride herself on
the smalluess and roundness of her
corset-deformed waist, dis
regarding alike the suggestions OF art,
the warnings of science and the adj
which nature gives in the
discomfort and distress occasioned
by the effort to secure a change in the
natural contour Of the human form,
which Is more monstrous in it's viola
sion OF the laws of beauty, more widely
40 variance with the dictates of
reason and more disastrous in its con
sequences 80 bodily health and vigor
than any similar blrbarity practiced
upon themselves or children by the
members OF any savage or semi-savage
tribe.
How such a Disagreement of the
physique could ever have come TO be