The Washington times., 1906-02-12
CORSET CAVALCADE
WOULD BE MODELS
All Sorts of Women See
Miss White.
QUICK SELECTIONS MADE
Three Days Session of Dressmakers'
Association Is Now Ready
to Begin.
QUICK SELECTIONS MADE

Tall women, short women, fat women.
ean women, bOmbarded the ante-room
bf the Masonic Temple. at o'clock this
morning. 1t might have been a comic
opera rehearsal or a bargain sale to the
INITIATED, but to the wise ones it meant
the return to Washington of that inde-
tatigable worker and wizard of the cor
set lace-Miss Elizabeth A. C. White.
president of the Dressmakers' Protec-
tive Association OF America.
4 three days session of the assocla-
ton opened at II O'Clock this morning
with a lecture by Miss White on dress
materials. Advertisements In Saturday
and Sunday papers for models during
the convention was responsible for the
early morning attack on Masonic Hall
Models of All Sorts,
When a cordial little woman. one of
Miss Whites assistants. looked over the
choice assortment of models at o'clock
THIS morning, every woman in the crowd
looked at another as II to say You
might as well go home. I'm IT"
The lady examiner went to two wo-
men sitting near the door and said to
one:
'Win you please take of your coat?"
The woman removed her coat, but al
most before she had drawn it off the
lady examiner said:
Yes. you'll do and turned to an
other who looked as IL she had been
1assOed and dragged In by the waist
She was bulgy specimen. and the lady
examiner said. mo. I'm afraid We can't
use you" and to the reporter she con-
fided that 1--WE have to have unusually
bad figures. you know" and the re-
porter wondered how the lady examiner
had made the mistake.
Just as she was turning away q large.
portly form rose from the far corner
OF the room Somebody was heard TO
gasp. Somebody did gasp. Three hun
dred if an ounce For a time il was
hard 10 tell whether the form was 60
ing out or coming in. but soon IL be
came evident it was Just standing still
When the prospective model moved IL
looked very much as If she had gotten
behind and was pushing herself alop~
There was much OF her in front and
considerably more from a rear view.
The attractive little girl in charge Of
the corsets looked Tuefully at her stock
as If II were all over.
Now If there IS one thing Miss White
likes more than another il is a big ng-
ureless figure that she can strap into a
corset and make look like a fashion
plate.
"Ohl Just the Thing"
The assistants crowded around the
large party and declared. Miss White
Will have a fit when she sees you"
But I didn't really come to be a
model" said the visitor shyly.
20, but you must" the girls all said
I'm chorus. You are just what Miss
White wants You just must come"
We'll" said the woman. you know
! saw some one demonstrate a corset
once in Convention Hall, and the wo-
man who was the model-welf, they
they-showed-er do you"
20, we supply you with-well. Wen
fix that all right, and then you know
there will only be women present"
I'll come then, but really I didn't |
come down for that this morning" and
the little girl in charge of the corset Is |
began a desperate search.
The preliminary details of the cOTVen- |
ton were not without their huTnO". !
Miss White carries large assortment 1
of paraphernslia. Last night u rec /
large trucks lined up in front Of the 1
Masonic Temple and began unloading.
Upstairs there was spiritualists
meeting and grave things were taking 1
place within. Mary was telling John 1
how happy she was and appointments /
of various characters were being made /
with spirits OF another world, The Sc /
arce had been in progress all the even !
ing and much of a mysterious charac- |
ter had taken place.
Outside the busy world went its way |
but upstairs in the big hall all was OF /
the spirit kclgdom. When those who /
had sat enthTalled throughout the |
seanCe wended their way down the |
winding stairway. they caught sight OF |
strange things as they passed the ante /
room.
Mummy-Like Cases.
Lined up against the wall were num- |
my-like cases made of stats, and dim !
y disCeTnible within these screen-Iike |
boxes were headless and limbless bod |
les They stood out ghost like against |
the dim light that trickIed through the |
rooms. and perhaps not until today will !
those who went TO the spirits meeting |
know that what they saw was not their
departed friends-or part of them |
but the bust models of Miss Whites /
annual exhibition.