The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-03-04
made corset of the present style. Th
is. if she puts it on properly.

To do this she must loosen the laces.
Gone are-or should be-the days
when a woman kept her corsets laced
for days and weeks at a time. Now
the woman loosens the laces at night
and tightens them in the morning.
When she puts on the corset it is so
loose that it hangs upon her like bag.
She clasps the garters that are at
tached to the front and, if she be Of
stout figure, to the sides, settles the
COZ set down over her hips and abdo-
men, drawing long, deep breath after
this is done, and then proceeds to
tighten the laces She does this care
fully, drawing the lower ones first and
then those above the belt line. Never
must she make them too tight for CON-
fort. As soon as she does this she in
jures her figure as we'll as her feelings.
When the laces are tight enough, she
should cross them in the back, bring
them to the front, pass them under the
garter on the left and tie them there.
The great advantage OF thus tight
ening the corset laces every day is
that the figure can be humored. There
are days when woman feels that a
tight corset is more than she can bear.
Then she leaves the laces loose at first,
and draws them up later in the day
when she has reached the point where
a little closer compression will be
grateful to her.
can hear the protest Of busy wo-
men over the time it will take to 60 to
this trouble. But it really takes less
time than one would think. At first,
before one is accustomed to the pro-
cess it may require few minutes more
than one has been in the habit of grant.
ing to ones toilet, but as the habit
grows upon one Of lacing the corsets
daily, it will be done more quickly and
become matter ofcourse. And even
if it does take few minutes more, is
not the game worth The candle? When
one sees the good Fl cues that have been
evolved from sbapeless forms by the
use of good corset, does it not seem
that little extra care is very small
price to pay for the gain.
The corset once on, the woman must
proceed to live up to it. She will find
that it helps her to keep her shoulders
straight and her body erect. She
must learn to poise herself properly,
throwing her weight on the balls OF her
feet and resisting the temptation to
sway backwards. That is tendency
which grows upon women as they ad-
vance in years and in flesh. If they
do not "stand so straigh that they
learn the other way" they let their
shoulders droop until tue middle Of
the back is like hump. All about
the country one may see women in
the late ffties who have bent their
shoulders until they look almost as
though they we're deformed. This
could have b9en spared them if they
had taken littls pains early in life.
And even an elderly woman can do
much to correct such stoop il she is
willing to give herself trouble about
it,
To stand strai ght is neither to bend
backward nor to droop forward. The
woman with trend toward either
should exercise herself every day
standing in front Of mirror. She is
wise if she follows the advice of one
sensible housekeeper and hangs look
ing glass in her kitchen where she can
see herself as she steps back and forth
about her work and bring herself up
with a round turn if she slips into any
slovenly trick OF carriage.
The corset will give good figure
for time, but woman must work to
keep it, If she is too thin for beauty
the task will be simpler for her than
for the woman inclined to put on flesh.
Tue latter has her work ahead of her
The thin woman may have to take ex-
ercise, as the stout one must do, but
she has less to carry about with her
while she is doing it. For both it is
essential that exercise should he taken
indoors and out. The latter is vastly
preferable, for obvious reasons. But
the exercise indoors is far better than
nothing.
One woman who would b called old
if her years were known has never, for
fifteen yea,s, failed to 90 through a
certain course of what she calls her
"gymnastics," on rising in the morn
ing. For ten minutes, daily, she bends
and twists her body, STOPPING until
she sits on her heels and rising with
out laying hold of anything to assist