The sun., 1904-08-28
THB YENUSR0Rx AND BUSTLES
A WHIM OF FASHION ALLEGED
TO BE WITHOUT EXCUSE.

Other Means Of Acquiring tho New Figure
which Ii to BE Modish without Re
| sorting 70 Use OF the Bustie-Ant
/. Bustles Arc Pronounced Unhealthful
Bustles are being worn again. There h
no doubt Of it. Women feared them In the
! spring, and in the early summer there wa
vague prophecy that the curse was about
to fall upon the wise and the foolish alike
And now this last pleasant week OF summer
they are an accomplished faot.
/ While the older men and women who
remember the former dark age OF bustlee
may earnestly and Intellectually protest
/ younger girls will accept them reluctantly
and wear them proudly. and younger men
will sni6 at them, and walk and dance
with the girl who wears them. 4
But all, even young men, will not snih.
One astonishing man has recently had the
extreme temerity to venture, pen In hand,
into that mysterious bourne Of fashion
from which no man ever returns COM
placent and to defend the hustle.
His trenchant argument in favor Of hustle
| wearing is as follows The hustle is good
thing because 1t is the death decree Of the
fashion Nor slender women. The slender
woman is bad for the race, and that she Is
seeking to change her figure by bustles is
an indication that there is a renaissance
of appreciation Of the more robust type.
In other words, large hips stand for
, higher ideal of womanhood; and 30 even
fake hip il a step in the right direction.
OF the unworthiness Of the slender woman
to consider. If she is by product, her
vogue will soon become extinct. There
| Is really nothing to fear from her II nature
| once has her eyes opened to an essential
fault.
And granting, too, that the robust type
will cause fewer domestic problems, the
hustle is still helplessly and forever out
| of the reckoning as q factor in the physical
| improvement OF women. While 1t may on
one hand indicate that the Japanese fem
other nothing will 80 soon bring about that
| very figure as hustle wearing.
The heat and weight OF hustle large
enough to add bulk to the figure not only
| reduces flesh, but IL worn constantly enough
first fattens the back and then produces
slight inner curvature Of the spine: And
this spinal injury results In general Ill health
loss OF flesh and terribly shattered nerves.
Tight lacing, high heels, heavy skirts
gauze underwear in winter, all symbols oi
power OF working permanent injury with
the padded iron hustle. And even the cotton
pad and canvas hustle, which are never
strong enough to be popular, are heating
| and exhauStlng.
If the American girl Is called upon by
fashion to sacrifice her delicate, graceful
outline, il it is smart and good form tS
consider the we'll being OF posterity, Il
Venus de Milo is. to supplant Psyche as q
type, then, for the sake Of her reputation
natural means instead OF deceiving anc
deforming herself with mechanical con
| trivaIces.
And there are ways Of increasing one''
size, II one will lake thought and ths
| right sort Of diet and exercise.
Starchy foods are necessary, wit hou'
acids; vegetables rather than meat, and oat
meal rather than salad. This for genera
latitudinal increase, to put on the TAT
which it has been the object Of feminine
existence not to 40 for ,a years s,r.S past. oros
in the right way and avoid the sort Of physi
cal culture that the 1880 gowns have beer
making popular Walk enough to get ar
appetite and sleep for few minutes aftel
luncheon and dinner.
Don't 20 over your golf course too many
times day. Don't swim more than thret
times a week. Don't tramp, twelve milei
q day, and do sleep as much as you car
As for special outdoor exercise there il
nothing that will 90 deyelop the body abou
the torso as rowing. Incidentally, It meani
fine chest expansion and Is good ange
| to scrawny arms, but it's most marked ef'
| feet Is in giving to the body that volume O.
strength which the man defender OF thu
hustle fondly hoped to discover In thu
Naturally. it takes moro time and money
to cultivate hips than 1t does to fake them
But the cultivation, on the other hand, means
strength and health, instead OF q return t.
the anpmic. dyspept9 type OF ne bust. bus 4.
to be doubted II the modern girl, will
her prize complexion and grand stand
muscle, would actually ever consent to the
life OF any fad that would mar her health
and beauty.
It Is certain she would not without the
connivance of man. A third Of all women
dress to please men. and q third Of all
men admire smartness and fashionable
ness moro than grace and beauty In clothes
| and this third Of the masculine world ia
admires is not conventionally fashionable
| in attire. Or rather 1t saves itself EN-.
| barrassment by not admiring q woman
who hasn't q long distance smartness OF
dress, and the woman who dresses for its
| admiration viii risk much for the unintelli-
Where there IL no time or inclination for
| rowing bustles will be raptnrously welcome.
! But try the rowing Il you can.
Start with small dory. with good oar
| looks and well balanced oars, on still water
Sit squarely in the middle. Of tho middle
i
slowly and steadily.
Bend forward from the waist, so that you
are pulling with your body, not your neck
and lungs. And row to get somewhere.
| You will row better with goal, just as you
| write better for check.
The rowing movement which sways the
! hips back and forth, and which is q steady
pull on waist muscles, will develop the
trunk OF the body more than any other
exercise, natural or with apparatus. Enough
Of 1t viii remodel the figure and revivffy
| the constitution. little rowing won't
| do il, or any amount Of rowing. II the position
| and bending are wrong.
And it's Q good idea to dress sensibly
to get the best out Of rowing. A girl is not
| going to quiet her nerves II she has to watch
| her sleeves to see that they don't slip down
! and strike the oars, and II her skirt and
pettiooat drag and get moist, and II her arm
| holes cut and her corset is tight or long.
The best rowing dress is O blouse, q real
sailors blouse, loose and broad shouldered,
| an ankle skirt and knickers. gymnasium,
rubber soled low shoes, sleeves rolled up,
,, and no hat, or light cap. The skirt should
be scant, to be out OF the way. and dark,
not to show splash.
Really the best made, smartest, most
! profoundly approved of bustles is no ade-
| ouate substitute for this sort Of figure