The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-10

Someone who has evidently given
the matter honest thought and care
full research, has given forth the edict
recently that the mode Of dressing, as
adopted by the American woman, is
the direct cause of her somewhat COM
pncated nervous system, hand, in fact,
the cause of a hundred and one ills
that woman-flesh is heir to.
This particular someone too, be 1t
known, belongs to the medical fra
ternity, which has always had more or
less to say on the subject of corsets
and so on to every unfortunate sick
woman who has come within the pale
OF its precepts.
He says that the accepted mode of
dress among women of America is one
that makes the wearer ever concious
of what she has on, and therefore an
ever present burden on Yer nervous
system: that, because she cannot pos
sib!y forSet her clothing from the fact
she feels II all the time, her mental at
titude is one of preening peacock,
with which other world matters are
introduced with certain nervous dis
cord.
He is right.
Any woman under the shining sun
who entertains a grain of honesty to-
ward herself will admit it.
Any woman under the sun would be
healthier, happier, more magnetic,
more thoroughly useful in the world
If conventions and the opinion of men
allowed her to ayo joyously about look
ing like the proverbial grain sack with
a string tied around the middle, ex-
cepting for the important fact that she
doesn't dare risk it.
The conventions. don't you see. won't
allow her to step back from acute
Ar,,nr-i0o ,, len, 70 CSrarian lfvHoS ~ mo-
ment's notice and she knows it.
Most of 'her' can't afford to indulge
in any erratic procedure when she is
a young woman, because of the hus-
band hunting period, which, of course,
is important, and in after years, il
she is particularly interested In keep
ing that husband. she can't afford to
take chances on plain nature and the
lines and billowy curves that nature
alone has given her.
Why?
Because she knows very well that he
will invariably compare her with the
various Daily Hints From Paris that
flash by him in the streets and at the
theatre, with personal deductions ali
his own.
Probably at choice intervals he viii
indulge in an exposition of his certain
ideas on the dress reform problem, and
uncorseted figure, for instance. is the
premier article in good sense, good
health and good looks, but if YOU catch
him turning to personally enthuSe over
what he will tell you confdentially is
the SWEETEST looking woman on the
street, she will, in nine cases out of
ten, not be the loosely put together fe-
male of his stay-at-home dreams. but
a willowly. sure enough corseted sort
of lady, often the extreme and con-
spicuous type.
Such men make home an interesting
and exciting place for their wives
when they dare to emulate the charms
of the lady of his dreams; when they
copy her extremely evident complexion
he bellows and paws the earth; when
false curls begin to hang from her
matronly coiffure, even as the lady's
he throws another fit, and when the
share- of his fortunes and misfortunes
with an honest desire to please and at.
tract his eye even as others do, COM
mences festive infringements upon ner
health with impossible stays,-well
he'd better not know about Ii in nins
cases out OF ten.
However, he is bound, sooner OF
later, to make pointed remarks and
pointed comparisons which bear upor
his slapped together slab sided lady
and I'm not going to blame her a bit
ror you aren't either, If she commences
a quiet practice Of certain beauty de-
ceits that he won't guess and won't
know about, any more than he guesse:
what the dressed up little street lady
uses In the manufacture of the charm:
that bind him.
The Normal Woman.
The normal woman has her heart or