Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 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 fit
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 shall
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 ridicule women
will adhere to the prevailing mode and
will 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
The fact that woman
has endured and survived the tyranny
of dress for centuries without more
serious results, says Emmett, Is con-
vincing proof of her power of endur-
ance.
Three Conditions Required.
The prevention and cure of the dis
eases peculiar to women require the
fulfllment of the three powerful prin-
cipal conditions in her dress:
/. Even distribution for uniform
protection against cold and wet.
2. Freedom from waist construction
3. Freedom from traction.
Dudley calls the bands about the
waist a torrid zone of whalebone, cor
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 it, but the compression comes
upon the muscles of the soft parts of
the trunk.
AS the hat-headed woman watches
with interest and growing pride the
progressive depression OF her infants
skull while from day to day she binds
more tightly upon it the fattened disc
of wood, and the Chinese woman
glories in the shriveled and misshapen
stump of what was once her child's
foot, as a developing mark of aristo-
cratic gentility, in like manner does
the civilized mother pride herself on
the smallness and roundness of her
daughters corset-deformed waist, dis
regarding alike the suggestions of art,
the warnings of science and the ad-
monitions which nature gives in the
discomfort and distress oecasioned
by the effort to secure a change in the
natural contour of the human form,
which is more monstrous in it's viola
zion of the laws of beauty, more widely
at variance with the dictates of
reason and more disastrous in it's con-
sequences to bodily health and vigor
than any similar barbarity 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