Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-05-16

Tor the poets splendid Cambo villa are
fresh In the minds OF all. AS they are
made up NJ ethereal Sylphs from fairy
legends withou, much room for internal
organs. he surprised Paris ny his ad-
vocating human figures for human be-
ingS.'
"Montesauiou is right, says Ros,and.
My sylphs" oh, they are poetry, Poets
may idealize in dreams. The nobility of
art liz that II may raise, nature to its high
er plane. We may all travel fairy lands
where nymphs of fire and ice bend like
flowers ON their stalks. Hut In real life
TN" results of compression are partial. i'm
perfect. monStrous.''
The Eau OF the Dressmakers.
MontcsQuious's human forms for hui
man bodies promises. indeed. ,o become
the watrhWard OF ~ strong concerted
movement to rouse In rarisian femininity
repentance for their prcscn; craze for the
waSp-like waist. Rostand took the phrase
! against tn" saying of a famous Paris cor
set maker that N-cen,smeter u9.7-inch,
waists are quite common. that her house
Ia daily turning ont quite normal cor
sets of fortN-nine and forty-cight cent?
meters uS.S aud lS9 inches) for full grown
women. that present day specialists like
herself find forty-sevcn and forty-siX cen
umctrrs uS.a inches and ISL inclies) moth
Ing unusual or extraordinary.
III all this is not !, vicious commercial
"Nac.rration." says the poet. 'uur Parts
icnnes are being drawn into ~ bad affair:
and ii is time for all those who can in
tiu"nce them To join I'm 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 "ompress!ng the internal organs.
w have no influence" laughs DIR.
Dehove. plead with the great dress
makers"
Which shows as was Immediately
pointed oui-:hat Dr. Drbove 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
W" do Is to interpret tendencies"
And as Paris is tn. capital OF art. tho
glorious poet got 1t into his head to ad-
jure all artists, painters. playwrights,
romance writer's and other poets to insin-
iate a-tefde,sry- toward human 1gureA",
in their coming works-and In the con!
sciouSneSs of Paris. ,
Rostand praises the real women ne.
ures of Jane Dirys and Xavierc lie Leka.
Jane, they say. has never worn a cor
set and her proportions. over which nculp-
tors and painters rave. are very close to
Markets. famous average. hips LOG cent?
meters t42 inches) and waist seventy-two
t2S inches). Indeed. she may
be taken as the ideal artists model. waist
undeformed. lines all harmonious.
Proud Of Their Slim Waists.
De Leka's smarter lines are due to cor
set wearing. and The poet. who has no
great hopes OF seeing his beloved Pari-
sienncs go corsctless. adopts De Leka's d.
mansions as II sane ideal-with corset hips
lU2 90 inchcs). waist 81 cent?
meters IA inches). Both Jane Dirys and
DE leka have. of late. posed for "A Quan-
MY OF photographs. to which the praise
OF Rostand and M~ontesquiou and the
whole discussion have given immense
vogue.
Jane Dirys chose Greek subjects, classi-
cally pure. severe. harmonious. DE Ieka
Is Pofnreian-the smart period OF all an
t~iauity-and rather O~pera-comique Pom
p.ian at that.
What the photograp hs cannot show,
however. is n particular feminine grace.
natural To these women with uncom-
pressed waists. and denied To human
wasps.
Redin. the sculptor. refers to its volup-
iuo'is r%xaggcration in the andadura OF
Aadaluslan women: and La Lyrc, a ia
mou.; painter of unadorned beauty. extols
II IN he harmonious undulations OF the
young Venetian girls.
IL Is IN, rlNthincd caGcncr OF the fcmi-
iiine body. of which Dr. Richer has made
IN ai.alN'icaI achema. when he shout
WTlbGIt 10 inc right. tn" hips Wriggle
TIA the lofi, and So on. /. is n supple nm
inlai ion of the bust on tho base OF The hips
To o~seillatc BY the movement of the
limos. III Is 4 COMMUNAL establishment
. 'qNliibriuin ~ the hips diSp!icing them
elves la'oraily while ,hc waist executes
A siiGht rotation IN the opposite sense.
Wei, LA Isic says that The compression
,t n" wait causes the ripid bust to ex-
ssS'raie unpracefully The rolling of the
hips. while the straight corset. abandoning
me higher regions Of the bust to compress
more and more Inc hips ana thighs. estab-
ish'S Il second rigid section and destroys
an POSSIBILITY Of harmonious undulation.
Tight Lacing Condemned.
'If this most precious grace is los, I'm
hotoerapns 7 think that painting can very
well illus.rat. il" says La I.yre. For my
am perfectly willing TO paint q
lru' woman in costume for the coming
Sh" shall hay" the equivalent of a
vast OF ~ '~cntlmei"rs ga inchcs) above
n.ps of 100 c"rtimcters 90 inches).',
The effect of this early bid for Salon
was electrical. Within ten days
'"m" forty Paris painters-fiftecn OF them
very famous had responded To the noe,
cal and promised to paint each
'h' a "tiu' woman" IN costume for one
" me other OF the two great annual Sa-
ons of the coming spring season.
'Thc wasp waist certainly proclairns TN,
weak artistic education OF women" says
'anl Gervais They must lack any sense
" harmony 10 attach to mere sIendern.ss
WAIST al idea Of grace anc beauty, with
'u' c"inprehciding that perfection exists.
Va IN" contrary. in the soft Infections nv
shlch the body. after furnishing the SUI
'rp towering of the bust. gently con-
racts. I" magnify itself again In the am
ne anu tranquil swelling of the f1anks,"
me waisi, says Thcobald Chairman.
shouih pe "a SLOW and unacceptable pas.
Pc moi lss.t, fh.. tvrv. .I-.,~.
he bust and the hips. Tha negresses OF
'entral Africa who file heir teeth and