The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-17

the results OF compression are partial, i'm
perfect, monstrous!"
The Fault of the Dressmakers.
Montesquiouss human forms for hu-
man bodies promises. indeed, to become
the Watchward of q strong concerted
movement to rouse in Partisan femininity
repentance for their present craze for the
wasp-ltke waist Rostand took the phrase
against the saying of a famous Paris cor
set maker that @-centimeter C9.7-inch)
watstis are quite MINOR that her house
Is Dolly turning out quite normal cor
sets of forty-nine and forty-eight cent?
meters ds.3 and 1873 inches) for full grown
women; that present day specialists like
herself find forty-seven and forty-six CEN
timeters Qs.5 inches and 1871 inches) moth
ing unusual or extraordinary.
If all this ts not a vicious commercial
exaggeration." says the poet, Our Paris
ieHnes are being drawn into a bad affair;
and 1T is time for all those who can in
fuence them to join in the creation OF a
healthier ideal"
Who have influence over them? Not
the faculty of medicine-whose members
have never ceased preaching the horrors
of COMPRISING the internal organs.
w have no influence" laughs DR..
Debove. plead with the greet dress
makers"
Which shows4as was Immediately
pointed out-tha DR.. Debove has hazy
ideas about the making of the styles.
w do not make the Styles" says
Charles Klein. Styles are evolved by
Paris-by everyone and no one. What
we do is to interpret tendencies"
And as Paris is the capital Of art, the
glorious poet got 1t Into his head to adj
jure all artists. painters, playwrights,
romance writer's and other poets to tnsin-
uate a tendency toward human figures
in their coming works-and in the con-
seriousness of Paris.
Rostand praises the real women 1g-
ures OF Jane Dirys and Xaviere de Leka-
Jane, they say, has never worn a cor
set and her proportions. over which sculp-
tors and painters rave, are very close to
Markets famous average; hips 1O6 cent?
meters az inches) and waist seventy-two
centimeters (2S inches). Indeed, she may!
be taken as the ideal artists model, waist
undeformed, lines all harmonious.
Proud of Their Slim Waists.
Dc Leka's smarter lines are due to cor
set wearing, and the poet, who has no
great hopes of seeing his beloved Pari-
siennes go corsetless. adopts De Leka's d.
mansions as a sane ideal-with corset hips
102 centimeters A0 inches), waist GO cent?
meters ga inches). Both Jane Dirys and
DE Leka have, OF late, posed for a guam
THY of photographs. to which The praise
of Rostand and Montesquiou and the
vogue. :
Jan Dirys chose Greek subjects, CLASH
cally pure. severe, harmonious. De Leka
is Pompe:an-the smart period of all an
tiquity-and rather Opera-Comique POM
peian az that.
What the photographs cannot show.
however, is a particular feminine grace.
natural to these women with uncom-
pressed waists, and denied to human
w1sps.
Redin, the sculptor, refers to its volup>
tGopa e~aGeeration In the andadura of
Ansalusian women; and LA Tyre, n ia
nous ra!ater Of unadorned beauty, extols
4 in Tie harmonious undulations of the
Tanl~ Nc can girls.
y II tNr rh~' hnlcl cadence of the femi-
iEc hoy. NJ wa!ch DIR. Richer has made
'a - &".Jtieai achan.a. When the shaul-
es ii Sc % &c right. the hips w1irgle