Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-13
DOCTORS INTERESTED
IN CORSET MODEL
WOMEN, HOWEVER, CLOSE THE
EXHIBITION
Wives of Medicos Compel Fair DEM
onstrator to withdraw and Wax
Figure Takes Her
Place

CHICAGO, June 12.-"Fie on the
naughty corset model and fie on the
peeping doctors!"
Mrs. A. M. Beeson, demonstrator
of girdle appliances, is the model.
Thousands of members of the Ameri-
can Medical association are the peep
ers. The wives of the medical men are
the criers of "Ffe!"
When the exhibit in connection with
the medical convention opened at the
Armory the wives of visiting doctors
noticed that their husbands Kept tug
ging them toward one part OF the Dig
hall, where delighted circle OF men
were gathered. There stood living
Venus. girdling and ungirdling herself
with a modern whalebone. steel ana
silk combination.
Mrs. Beeson was the Venus and the
doctors wives present declared she had
little more raiment on than had her
equally lovely predecessor when she
rose from the NEUROLOGICAL waves a
few years ago.
"Ah!" cried the medical men, and
their eyes flashed.
"Ohi' shifted the medical mems
wives, and their eyes flashed, too.
Unbiased observers noticed the diff
ference in the kind of fash. They also
noticed that while Mrs. Beeson was
calmly attending to her corset dem
onstrstion none of the doctors looked
at her corset nor asked single ques-
ton about 1t.
Wives Become Petulant
"Come away! Come away!" urged
the wives impatiently. "The exhibition
is indecent. This Is no place Tor you
She ought to be ashamed.
1NLO cnn1 IN me- muttere0 a
meek looking little doctor as his anna
zon helpmeet whisked him along. Then
he got indignant enough to speak up
in protest.
"Why, there's nothing indecent about
that corset demonstration" he insist
ed. Look at these charts on the
walls They've got outlines Of things
belonging to the human body that you
couldn't even find in a cayenne pepper
artists studio. Look at those Jars.
They've got things on exhibition IN
them that I never saw in a hospital.
"Those charts and those things in the
lars are not alive" said his wife sig
nificantly.
Then the doctors wives got busy
They went to the ladies' committee.
who had arranged the ladies' end OF
the convention program. The commit
tee. headed by Mrs. Albert J. Ochsner.
went to Manager Braun. They got him
in motion at once. He descended upon
Venus. -
sTm afraid you'll have to modify
YOUR demonstration somewhat" said
he to Mrs. Beeson, with glance of lin
gering and admiring character at the
corset. mot that 1 Object should
saw not-far from it. But. you see
ahem-we must consider the ladies'"
"I also am lady," said Mrs. Beeson.
"h,It If YOU desire to schedule the ex-
hibit we'll put up screen"
So the screen was put up. To the dis
may of many of the doctors wives 1t
was noticed that the screen arrange
ment tickled their husbands most to
death. The number that was able to
worm inside the screen for a front row
orchestra peep was almost beyond com
prehension.
Corset Strings Break
Later however, the strings of the
corset storm broke again. The ladies'
COMMITTEES insisted that the entire ex-
hibit on the living model be stopped at
once. 1t was so ordered and so done.
"You can't blame me-" said Manager
Braun, apolegetically, with final FOND
look at--the corset.
Then the corset company brought
down a wax figure and demonstrated
on that. immediately the doctors al