The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-10

But I can't stand to see anybod,
 hurt"
 Reassured, Polly took me by ths
 hand and bade me follow her and, to- gether we went with the clever Cor setiere, into a little mirror furnished
 room. where a billowy person was ar | ranging her auburn puffs and thought fully considering the piled up models
 on chair.
 | We will try this one, said the Cor l The Auburn tinted Lady objected | The Auburn tinted Lady objected from the beginning.
 | That" she declared, lis too large in the waist"
 .Its exactly what you need,r said the Corsetiere, peremptorily. Your waist I is too small, as 1t is. To reduce your I hips you must wear a corset that will let your flesh go where it should go.' l The Auburn tinted Lady" was ob- durate still but the Corsetiere, kneel- I ing beside her, was lacing the stays into place.
 As she deftly threaded the corset together she explained that one should always use three laces one for the top, one for the middle and one for the hips. and all three of these must be relaced every time the corset Is ad- Justed.
 The human form is never the same twice." she explained, and no corset could be expected to give satisfaction if you think it's going to fit you as well the next time without relacing it.'' But this is my natural shape" the Auburn tinted Lady ayerred. T have always had a tiny waist"
 You've been wearing your corsets too tight" the Corsitiere informed her. You were fitted wrong"
 Perhaps" the Auburn tinted Lady replied, "but it Is very difficult to get corset when one has a waist as small as mine.'
 Polly paid silent tribute to this woman who could so gamely endure the torture that was being inflicted upon her. and when the corsets were taken off of her and they lay on the chair Polly inspected them curiously and finally observed that they looked like chains that might have been worn by some tortured criminal, straining to escape from custody.
 One model and then another was fit ted to the customer and finally with a lot of clever talking and much more clever manipulation of silk laces and in- finite pains, the Corsetiere weaned the Auburn tinted Lady away from the Curve" proposition that was her hob Dy Into the -llne erect WHICH COultS for everything these days, and from little fat, squatty. i'll shaped person we saw the lady emerge Into one of distinct beauty of line"
 You can't work a miracle all in mnute,' said the Corsetiere, but if you lace yourself properly into these cor sets, by Thanksgiving you will be like a sylph. Squeezing your waist as you have been doing, you would never have been comfortable, but put into your corsets as I have put you into them you can breathe normally and reduce at the same time."
 All sorts of women arrived and were fitted into new models and we saw won derful ransformations-as we stood in open eyed admiration of those with the old fashioned hour glass figure, made over into figures that Venus might have admired, assuming that Venus liked comfort more than beauty which she undoubtedly did when you remember the size of her waist.
 Polly commented upon thet droves Of women-little human beings of women who drifted in and drifted out again, to whom the Corsetiere gave her atten- ton. whether they chose silk webbing