Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-02-23
HAVE GOOD FIGURE
WOMEN BY TAKING A LITTLE
CARE CAN PRESENT ATTRAc-
TIVE APPEARANCE. s
Christine Terhune Herriok Talks to
Women About Marvellous Results
Accomplished BY Little Care as to
Appearance.

appearances
Copyright, 1904, by Christin Terhune
Herrick.)
There is no excuse for a wofnaa's
having poor figure. 1t may give her
some trouble to get a good one but it
Is worth the effort.
Some women begin life without fig
ures worthy of the name. While they
are young girls they are scraggy and
HAT, or lumpy and shapeless These
peculiarities do not lessen with age 4
and when to their natural drawbacks
the owners add utter .carelessness, it
is no wonder If by the time they have
reached middle age, they are q trialSt0
the eyes of their friends.
AS a matter Of course, 1t Is easier &
to let oneself go and not take the
pains that the care of a figure de-
mands. But no woman with the least
particle. Of vanity in her make up
and 1t is very poor sort of woman
who lacks it--can help feeling a thrill
of pleasure when she beholds the ilil-
provement wrought in her APP
pearance by a good corset, properly,
worn.
For the corset is the first essential
| ber other things go with 1t, Tho
woman must carry herself properly,
| but the corset helps her to do that.
| She must pay attention to her outer
| dress, and to this. too, the corset will
| stimulate her. Her diet cannot be an
tirely neglected, Il she wishes to have
| her form reduced from over stoutnesS
or redeemed from ultra thinness, but
! with the corset as a. foundation for
her efforts she will be encouraged In
| the work Of regulating her food.
4 Even IN this day there are plenty Of
| people who find nothing bad enough
to say about the corset I have seen
/ one matron give way to tears while
addressing q womans club on the
1 evils that had been wrought by corr
| SETS And she was not a hysterical
| woman either. She had known the
4 corset as 1t wasfin earlier years, be-
fore common sense and science went
to its making and she knew the harm
u 1T had done those who regarded IT as
4 an instrument for the compression OF
A the waist into a smaller, compass than
4 nature had intended for it.
4 The new corset-the Straight
II front" with which fashion papers and
comic columns have made everyone
familiar--is built on a different plan.
1t does not squeeze a womans organs
out of shape, but holds them in place,
AS have said before, 1t must be propv
erly made and properly worn. The
ideal corset is one that is made to or
individual body. but for those who
, can not afford this there are substi-
: tutes in plenty. woman should
seek until she finds what she wants
The new corset increases the size
Of the waist line thereby giying ro2n S, g
There is no difficulty in dsssfh breafh6ss 1T
ing with the woman who Wears a. wen
made corset of the present style. That
is If she puts it on properly. sa .a
II To do this she must loosen the 1aces.
Gone are-or should be--the days
when woman kept her corsets laced
for days and weeks at q time. Now:
!, the woman loosens the LAGOS at night
! and tightens them in the morning.
! When she puts on the corset 1t Is so
! loose that 1T hangs upon her like bag.
, She clasps the garters that are att
tached to the front and, If she be, OF.
i stout figure. to the sides, settles the
corset down over her hips and abdo-
q men, drawing a long deep breath after
5 this is done,. and then proceeds to-
! tighten the laces.l 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
comfort. AS soon as she does this shs
injured her figure AS well as her feels,
ings. When the laees are tight enough
! she should cross them In, the back,
bring them to the front, pass them,
u1QeT the garter oil lAS lSLI SiOsS civ
9 tie them there.
! The great advantage of thus tight
! ening the corset laces every dayiis that
; the figure can be humoured. There
: are days when woman feels that a,
| tight corset Is more than she can bear.
Z Then she leaves the laces loose at first
+ and draws them up later In the day
j when she has reached the point where
q a little closer compression Will ba
grateful to her.
$ I can hear the protests of busy
d women over the time 1t will take to
go to this trouble. But 1t really takes
:, less time than one would think. At
= first. before one is accustomed to the
process, it may require few minutes
more than one has been in tho
habit of granting to ones toilet, but. as
the habit grows upon one OF lac1ng
the corsets daily, 1t will be done more
quickly and,become a matter Of course.
z. And even if 1t does take few minutes
more is not the game worth the cail-
die? When one see the good figures
that have been evolved from shapeless
forms by the use of good corset, does
1T not seem that a little extra care
is a very small price to pay for tne
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, throw
ing her weight on the balls Of her
feet and resisting the temptation to
sway backwards. That Is a tendency
which grows upon women as they ad-
vance in years and in flesh. II they do
not "stand SO straight that they lean
the other way" they let their shoulders
( droop until the middle of the back Is
ligke a hump. AL labout the country
one may see women in the late fifties
| ,yho ,aua hent their shoulders until
they look almost as though they were
deformed. This could have been SPAR
ed them if they had taken a little
pains early in life. And even an elder
Iy woman can do much to correct such
a stoop if she is willing to give herself
trouble about 1t.
Eldon.
EIdon, Feb. 20.--Miss Clio McCrary OF
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