The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-11-23
NEW CORSET FOR STOUT MEN.
1t Came Into Vogue Contemporane-
ously and as n Result Of the
Shfrtwaist,

II can truthfully say that I was
never so cool or SO comfortable as I
have been since I wore corset" said
the fat man, slipping seltzer lemonade
through a straw, relates the New
York Sun. 81 always had an
idea that man who wore q corset did
so through foolishness or desire for
a small waist. Look at mel"
He was the last man in the world that
one would associa tie with corsets, be-
ing very stout, although well groomed
and with an greatness from the waist
up that is not always one Of a fat man s
characteristics.
"The way I got to wear one of the
things" he said, "was when I noticed
Tonwate going round in his shirt
waist. First I made fun Of him and
then 1 began to notice that his shirt
didn't set in wrinkles, damp and IN
pleasant looking, but that it had a
faut look, and that puzzled me, for
Tonwate weighs more than I. -.
FINALLY / asked him about it and
then he told me of Twenty-third
street corset maker who had invented
a corset girdle for fat men just as soon
as the shirt-waist fad came out la st
year. She reasoned right away that
fat men would be debarred from the
new idea, for the trouble with fat
man is that his flesh creases and law
ers about his waist, and this doesn't
look pretty in a shirt waist.
This woman got up flexible light
weight belt with few good, stiff bones
over the hips, and the result was a
neat-looking waist, the body not seem
ing to come in contact with the outer
linen. 1t was the greatest thing ever
invented, and I ordered several of
them, and I wouldn't be without one
now"
The inventive corset maker is SELL
ing dozens of these girdles to stout
men, and is shipping them in guam
Titles to the summer resorts where
men ride horseback andp golf with
out coats. Il call them girdles," she
explained, "because the idea of a cor
set worn by man is associated with
dudes and military dandies who some
times wear shape stays to give them
graceful waist line.
my girdles are simply to hold in
the surplus flesh about the waist so
that it doesn't come in visible contact
with the outer garment It is this
principle which causes a woman in a
shirt waist to look cool. But when
men went in for the shirt waist in
their endeavor to look as cool as the
shlrt-waist girl they forgot the fact
that woman's body is carefully grid
ed in beneath her waist For thin men
it was not SO difficult, but for fat men
the shirt waist was impossible.
Il thought it all out one day when
very stout man in shirt waist came
into a car. He looked so very i'm
pleasant and warm that. began to
realize that corset was in reality a
COO garment and then T quickly
evolved the notion of the girdle., It
took immediate hold, when displaye d,
one in my shop window with a pic
ture showing the use for which it was
intended.
"Whi.e the shirt waist for men has
not proved very popular in the cav.
1t IS the general rule in the country.
Men ride and row and drive and play
golf and tennis in the loose: waists of
silk and flannel and linen. The dining
room and the drawing-room are the
only places that are forbidden the sum-
w ont L l.
uses Of the girdle have been appre-
ciated. The tailors advocate them
now, as their use does away with belts
or suspenders. The trousers are cut
so that they set over the girdle in mil
~: r., sh.~- "a %
William B. Biles, aged rs years, has
just died at his home at Blue Ball, Cecil
county, Maryland. From childhood he
was blind. He was a man of clear I'M
derstanding, excellent Judgment and
was familiar with the current affairs
of his country and state. He was an
enthusiastic fox hunter, and 20 years
ago was one of the best in the state.
possessing a fine kennel of hounds.
He could distinguish each hound by
feeling it's ears. He could also tell the
color Of horse by feeling. His saddle.
horse was trained to follow a mule
which he used on his farm, and some
one Of his employees or boys would ride
the mule ahead of him on the hunts
over the fields and through the woods,
He could distinguish the voice Of each
Of his hounds when in close pursuit Of
a fox. !,
The Lamp Chimney Industry.
In this country about II, 900 persons
are engaged mailing lamp chimneys.