The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-13
eYes1HER GRIFFIN WHITE.
Beware of the cOrset!'


So declared DR.. Somebody from In
dianapolis the other day in an exhorta'
ton before the Wayne County Medical
society.
Whether this was mere Oratorlcal
frenzy or said to stir up excitement
among the members of the Wayne
County Medical society-for there Is
usually something doing at these pro,
fessional bOuts-or whether 1t was
message from Mars, to say nothing OF
Indianapolis, or whether it was mere
~ throwing on local color cannot now
be said.
Why, however. should the women OF
Wayne county be particularly singled
out for this melancholy admonition?
According to the health reports race
suicide is not imminent hereabouts
and if dress reform was meant, this
in indeed poor place to start it.
Not because dress needs to be re
formed here. Far from it. According
to the advertisements the deniZens OF
this community are good dressers.
| If you don't believe it go to church OF
| n DTluSc party VI "dtCl luc 6lll 10 SoAi
ing out of high school for eats.
II you didn't know the latter were
coming out of the school room, you
would think they'd been attending
what society columns denominate al
| times function"
Dressed to kill is as nothing in com
parison.
Why not put EN- in pinafores, by the
way. They'd look cute and then the
contrast between those in silken raj
ment and those in mere clothe:
| wouldn't be so glazing.
But to return to the dark blue con
versatism of this town. Is it, in pass
ing, so much conservatism as provin
cialism and because we don't know
any better
Who can say?
There are many strange things ir
this world and among them the truly
remarkable things people think abou
themselves which have no basis either
in fact or what still other people real
ly think about them.
Richmond, in this phase, is very
much like the famed ostrich which
sticks it's head in the sand and thinks
everyone else cant see.
This is, then. no place to star,
something"
So far as cOrSets are concerned
however. there is nothing more anus
ing than the occasional spasm of mas
culine Mysteries attendant upon the re
commentator for their abolition.
Did you ever notice men flocking
round the corsetless girl at the party
Have you not observed almost in
variably that the girl or woman riggeC
out in the latest extremities. her hail
padded and ornamented, her draperie:
Tapping or Hopping or winding &C
cording to the latest edicts, hel
cheeks artistically flushed with the
rouge of youth or that bought at the
drug store, her feet squeezed into high
heeled atrocities-have you not OBJ
served the men standing five deep be
fore this damsel or madame while the
corsetless girl dressed in reform
costume. waistless. wobbly and unde
fined sat against the wall talking will
the dowagers or some stray youth ask
ed in from the college and who fast
ened on to the corsetless one because
she reminded him of the dear ones a
home and he therefore could dis
course on the fourth dimension o
space with her with more ease thai
with the beribboned ladies'?
| Sure Many time and oft.
Never believe A man when he say
he likes to see women dress sens
bly,"
What they want is for women +
"look pretty"
And you can't dress sensibly an
look pretty at one and the same tim
unless you're pretty anyway.
The true test of beauty is whe
seen lin the home" at an early hour
or any hour. for that matter, If you ar
perfectly sure nobody will see you. Il
in the anomalous garments in whic
you are Unexpectedly surprised at tina
moment. you rise supreme and tn
surprisee can say-"no matter wha
she's got on she looks pretty" the
you know 1t don't make any differ
ence whether you wear corset O
not.
Few. however. pass the test.
A we'll fitting corset never hurt an
woman.
A corset nowadays is an artistic prC