Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-04

T NEVER like to hear a woman
knocking" this age and the hab-
its and customs of the women of
today
There never was better time to live
in than the present century, and as for
US women. we ought all to be mighty
glad that we were born in the days of
athletics and the suffrage agitation
even if we have to take hobble skirts
and some other follies along with our
blessings
The everyday woman of olden times
was not as good looking as the aver
age woman of today. nor was she as
healthy or as well formed
We have a better chance from baby
hood than queens of olden days who
were born in the purple but who
lacked the knowledge that modern sci
ence is instilling into the average nurse
and mother
The child of today has the right 20
be born healthy and under happy cir
cumstances. and now, with the science
of eugenics, it will soon be a sin to
bring a badly formed child into the
world, provided of course, science and
knowledge could have prevented that
misfortune Science is teaching US to
prevent and cure most deformities
which the women of olden times COW
cred up with pads, hoop skirts, bustles
and balloon sleeves
The dressmakers of great grand
mothers time never expected their
customers to have symmetrical fig
ures I knew one who is of the third
generation of dressmakers and who
learned all the tradition of her grand
mother She told me that even the
most celebrated beauties of 40 or so
years ago depended on their dress
makers for the symmetry of their fig
ures, and not on athletics and exercise
as they do now
MY mother wouldn't believe that
when tell a customer she has one hip
larger than the other the woman viii
go and exercise until she cures that
defect" said this young dress designer.
In the old days she would just say to
the dressmaker. Go pad the other
hip"
To cling to physical defects which
you can cure is merely a sign of lazi-
ness, and it is not fashionable to be
lazy, so the mothers of tomorrow, who
are learning a thing or two from their
dressmakers about their irregular fig
ures, are turning to people like me for
instructions to remedy these defects
than the other and usually the shoulder
of that side is tri1e lower than 1t
ought to be. This may not be percep-
tible when one is young, but the fault
becomes more and more prominent
with the years, and If not corrected
one lands in old age a little old woman
with distinctly irregular build
Both these defects the high shoulder
and the large hip may come during
school days when the little girl bal
ances too many or too heavy school
books under one arm, and let's them
rest on her slim hipbone This be-
comes a habit and the child gets more
and more one sided, especially if she
always carries her books under her
right arm as you will notice most chill
dren do
/ hope some day some wise person
will make school books that are dur
able as well as very light. Or per
haps we will borrow the good German
IA hion Of carrying the school books in
little satchel strapped around the
shoulders and hanging al the, back
This has no bad effect. provided the
books are not too heavy.
In the meantime. our school girls 60
on resting their books on their hips. ana
when they wear bad shoes-that Is
shoes with high and wobby heeis-this
position not only ruins the figure but