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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

I look at all these panthers at the
feeding hour in Paris and I see them Toll
along with all that in them when some
bodys paid the check, and / rejoice that
they could tote a trunk.
All is lazy. supple, catlike grace. The
body seems to be loosely jointed In four
places. at the knees. hips. waist and
shoulders, but. as a piece IL slants back
ward.
How do they obtain the loll back.
This dears, is the final secret.
Every one will know il some day.
Listen.
They wear heels where their toes ought
to be.
do not mean that their toes are gone.
Their toes are there, but they have no
heels.
Nor do I mean that their heels are
gone. Their heels are there. but they
have no heels of leather under their own
heels. In word. the leather heels are
shifted from back to front.
Now you see.
When the heels are back they throw
they throw you back.
The panther girl desires to be thrown
back.
But they're grotesque. Yes. Dare she
show herself in such monstrosities? OF
course not. They're for practice. The
whole morning. and whenever she can
slip into her practice brogans, she puts In
an hour of being thrown back. Unused
muscles of the legs grow strong and
tense. Knees and hips take the fiexed
Toll. The torso rolls upon the launches.
Oh. you panther.
STERLING HELLO.
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corset underneath the corset proper, t.
prevent its bursting!
In vain did art add its protest to medi
cine In vain did Rodin call on all "tru,
women to have a 24-inch waist and Al
inch hips. He gave it up in disgust wher
they turned themselves into "stovepipes.
"All their fashions show a deplorable
artistic sense in women was his bitter
summing-up of 1t two years ago, but
really, they attained the acme of bad
taste when they attached to mere slender.
ness an idea of grace and beauty.
"A
1.-The waist" concluded Rodin, should
be q slow and imperceptible passage be-
tween the bust and the hips The ne
crosses OF Central Africa. who file their
teeth and enlarge their lips with wooden
discs, deform themselves less barbar-
ously than the sheathed woman, be-
cause we may conceive feminine splendor
still existing I'm spite of the eccentric
upper lip; but the devastation is complete
when woman congresses her entire ply
sique"'
OUT!
What art. medicine and morals could
not do a dance has done.
1t is finished, 1t exists no more-be-
cause. panthers, you will surely never
put your noses inside that cage in the
future!
What do you think?
l don't care to think. I just hope.
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twelve years past forbidden in schools
during lessons in gymnastics"
In France there was an old circular of
the hygienic council in the same sense:
"but 1t cannot be executed" ran report
OF the year 1900. 1.-The dress Of girls not
permitting them to do without their cor
SETS"
Such was the reply of teachers in a free
republic They said, practically, to the
council Of hygiene Being men, you can
not understand the question:
In vain the Paris faculty of medicine
gave solemn warnings.
1.-THE woman who wears a COMPRISING
corset lives continually in a state of semi
asphyxia,' warned DIR. Sebilleau. whose
consultations cost twenty-dolla bill.
The great Galtier- Boissiere rose up and
spoke Of floating kidneys.
THE displacement of kidney or both
kidneys Cheating hidneys) generally has
no other origin than the compression Of
the corset" he said: and he repeated it in
. typewriter note, sent of his own ac-
cord. to all the Paris dailies weeklies and
monthly magazines.
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ROMANCE AND COlBWEBS

ITO the left here is the iron safe con-
tanning the original copy of the
Declaration of Independence" runs the
monologue of the guides in the State.
War and Navy building, but there is one
little corner. with it's story, that they
pass by. 1t is dark place, hidden deep
in the basement: in fact, it's not onSex-
hibition at all and to invade is almost like
defying the ghosts of intimate associa-
tions in the lives Of some hundred men
that stand guard.
Here under the direction of Goodloe f.
Yancey, chief clerk of the bureau of
navigation is maintained storeroom for
the effects, unclaimed by kin or friends.
Of those sailors of the past thirty years
who died in the service. Every day or so
brings a package to the bureau and quite
a little detective ability is displayed in
the search among its contents tor a clue
toward locating the heirs. The failures
are placed on record and consigned to
the dark storeroom in the basement.
Like most little places 1t has its class
distinction, for, while a lock on wooden
door is considered a sufficient safeguard
for q number of the packages, the others
reside in a large iron safe. A few dia-
mond rings, q number OF gold watches.
some uncut stones and several $2O gold
medals are among the valuables.
The iron door proved no protection
against romance, however, for that crept
in with the packages. Treasured side by
side lie two rings, one a diamond, the
other of old and battered silver with two
hands clasped and bound together by a
band of turquoise.
Perhaps romance does feel more at
home in a wooden cupboard. Neverthe-
less, nearly every package there. though
lacking somewhat in value, breathes its
little story. Naturalization papers and
discharges from the service, letters,
medals and photographs and the lottery
and pawn tickets scattered here and there
all have their meaning. Oceans were
crossed with the opening Of one package,
for there on the table lay the Queerest
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proved nothing. The human body at the
waist is composed OF soft parts. compress
IDLE almoht Indefinitely. Madame, or
miss, Prof. Potain used to say to them.
would You have q peremptory proof
that you are laced tight? Take your
corset off and live six months without
II. Your waist will increase between four
and SIX inches. The organs simply will
have reconquered normal volume
But that's awful" the fair used to
answer. Swell my waist six inches! Are
you only dreaming"
For those six inches t'gained" upon the
winged victory they paid infinitely in di-
gestive troubles: in circulation troubles;
breathing troubles the laced woman
breathed only by her upper ribs).
From all of which resulted a sad phe-
nomenon. Expending less work. with a
regime more chaste and hygienic than
the average man, without his alcohol. to-
bacco and coffee poisoning. the lady was
less healthy than the man. In Paris. at
least. she became more and more fragile,
bizarre. dyspeptic. homeopathic.
In vain did backward nations legis-
late. Without the slightest influence on
the mode, did "unfashionable' Roumania.
in 1909. forbid young women. even of the
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highest normal courses, TO come to school
in corsets. 1t was an additional circular
of the minister of public instruction to
supplement the famous one Of 1902. for
bidding girls In primary and secondary
schools to appear before teachers in that
anti-hygienic article of dress which con-
stitutes a permanent obstacle to the de-
velopment of the body and the normal
functioning Of organs In Bulgari8 Min
lister Chichmanov sent out yet more
drastic circular as his third official act.
1t forbade woman teachers, as well, to at
tend schools in corsets.
And the Car of Russia-the girls and
the women of his family and most all
young girls whose families are connected
with the court have not worn corsets for
nine years back. Nicholas personal or
der is that girls in high schools and SUI
perior technical institutions shall deposit
in the cloakroom the cuirass that they
wear under the name of a corset"
In Germany the corset has been for
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OF course, fashion answered.
How do you think fashion answered!
Fashion answered b. bringing in the
straight front and sheath!
Who can estimate the sum of suffering
caused by them in the past eight years
and more? The straight front theoretic-
ally left the stomach more free. but to
what use, since it crushed the organs up
against it? The additional hip-compres-
sers were presented as hygienic, in the
nature of sustaining bandages, to relieve
somewhat the straight-front corset
strain on the abdomen; but you should
have seen the steel grips sewed in some
of them. They left straight, livid lines.
Others of rubber tissues were stiff beyond
belief. Most women have grown up in
corsets, but these extra hip cOmpressers
were as new to them as they would have
been to men. Their quintessence was
reached by the lower "girth'' of a certain
Paris corset, veritable instrument of tor
ture-in reality a short and special hip
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sort of Chinese connections. Opium pills.
Chinese bark. dried fruit and the small
est, queerest little bottles containing a
thick dark fluid, made up the bundle.
Two fat red plush family albums prom
ised pictures of equally as fat babies and
nice homey-looking women. but they GER
tainly proved to be surprise packages.
Each page held the photograph of a COM
rade in uniform. Not single family pic
ture in two red plush albums, But stran-
gest of all. scattered through the books
were number of yellow time-worn clip
pings on how to keep a husband home
nights.
In one box string OF coral beads and
a scrap of blue sash suggested the old
French motto Superstition had breathed
into another bundle. for there wrapped
in piece of paper with a rosary and
picture of the Virgin Mary were some
little bits of broken mirror. IT hadn't
been broken in shipping, for the pieces
didn't fit
One package with the formidable word
"deserter" marked on the outside dis
played nine pictures of its former owner
posed In uniform. Quite an extensive tall
or's account found a place among the
papers. and one involuntarily murmured
VANITY" The photographs. however, in
a big cigar box found more to say than
In any of the other bundles. The package
was topped by red silk japanese scarf
and practically the remainder was made
up of photographs. Several sweet-faced
women in tight-fitting old-fashioned
bOdices. smiled up at the daylight. An
old German grandmother seemed to nod
her approval of several of the youngest
prettiest of the pictures. And then--i
Well the next certainly gave a crinkiy
little thrill for il was series OF pictures
of the daintiest little Japanese lady inn
aginable. So they ran through the pack
age, home ties and i'm turn, the little
almond eyes looking mp. At the end fell
out q lock of heavy bue-black hair Per-
haps II was then the little Japanese lady
In the picture smiled, at any rate nearly
everything in that little corner of the
basement seemed to whisper its story.
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fE panther girl 10
everyw ere.
She 81 o $ h g 3
around with heels
on her 8 h o e 8
where the toes
ought to be-as /
will show you.
She has the
panther's SLOUGH
ing grace-supple.
relaxed. unjointed,
Yet @ a d y to
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gives the impression of a corset un-
hooked toward the bottom, when the
To sustain the organs it bends In
rather sharply. az nature wishes: such
is only following natures own shape.
Not compressed anywhere" unused.
Not anywhere" said madame.
Waists are six inches larger than a
year ago. and everything in proper
ton"
Don't they worry to keep their fig
ures?'
Many artful females just have little
gussets let into the front of their cor
set below the waist line, to obtain an
imitation of the desired outward curve
at that point; and they manage to
keep their 19-inch waists secretly. by
padding them out with layers of cot
ton. Clinging to their chains, says
stiff and heavy as the statue OF the
Commander.
They are not real panther girls.
You ought to see the panthers eat.
The scene is any restaurant The
keepers bring on bleeding beefsteaks.
thick and juicy. and the panther bites
her white pearls in and rends the
steak while purring
Never had ] eaten like this. William.
since my fourteenth year" said one
such. Waiter, you may fetch another
slice OF melon for dessert. after the
potted pigeon" tThey begin their lunch
with melon).
You see, they have a place to put the
food
BY their eating you shall know them. !"
madame tells me. Those who cannot
eat are the back numbers. clinging to
their figures by an ancient and forgotten
danl Whnv, lra 70, he f0 nf hot
picking puts a date upon them. they
will let their bonds loose and be panthers
like the others
Why. there are women who had not en-
joyed square meal since the straight
fronts came in. around the year 1898.
Their lunch was three pills, cachet, two
eggs. a silver of lean ham. and a bit Of
dry toast. Now three girls destroy sad
die of lamb,
Must have strength to dance the
tango" explains madame. And how could
they tango in undetermined waist,
straight front and sheath that compress
ed the hips till they screamed with pain?
No. Paris is really dancing for the nrst
time in half century We want nat
ural figures for natural dances.
Yes" | said but tailored suits in au-
tumn?"
do you think a woman can compress
her waist six inches between lunch time
and tea time?" answered madame. Tai
lored gowns will still look trim. but only
by comparison. Women are completely
at their ease now. They have room In
their corsets."
For short timer" I opined.
No" replied the great Paris dress
maker: 1t is the more likely to last In
the measure that 1t Is more difficult to
remount current. Women. having tast-
ed the ease of the new cor set. will never
be able to endure the old again. Even
today fashionables could not stand the
straight-front.'
All. those six inches!
For the worlds veal, they are six
miles. says Prof. Pozzi.
Within the memory of six-month-old
babes any maid or matron used to say,
with aplomb:
But I don't lace tight. See? 1 can
pass my hand underneath my corset"
and she did il.
Half the women i'm the civilized world
fooled their husbands, fathers, brothers,
to whom they demonstrated. The re-
mainder fooled themselves as well. 1t
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r,,.3 - - ,,hs
Rooin ana the o'her scuip'ors are ue
lighted. We are back to undulatory
grace again. to the "andadura" of the
.sa,,,..i,, ,,-, ~, - ton;o,s
wrlggHhgs OF the ladles OF Venice. At
lists and poets cried for 1.-THE
rhythmed cadence Oh the feminine BODY
- L.1 p,; L. ,,,aao - ara,,..ioa,
schehe- men tie shouiueFs pthu ~
the right the hips bend to the left-a
stumble undulation OF the bust on the
49, :, - Nc ,,oda - oscii,a, -,
-,
the movements 81 'he linus N other
words. II is a continuous re-establish-
ment of equilibrium by the hips dis
,lacine themselves laterallv while tho
-. ... M. o,.,.; - -
"ais' eAeeu'es Se"' - 80
opposite sense.
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- z - 70 So &
slGz a5ltl)Nkatstzz==zzaez BY Herr
Wake Up-You've
Wake up man! You've ouerslep yourself This is the
We've forgotten whether Maud horse actress
holding five miles in the 5000
arrived in port A French scientist
the between Leuc0cye and phag0cyte
with moving picture Surgeons hansplanng shin
from calves crippe named Marconi
deliver three thousand miles from Shore
For three dollars hire Caruso to OF his
many times ish and Sousa will drop around with his
brass band for private performance at dollar selection
Because hear your Uoice, think you're
sion of your uu know that you talking
your Sleep
Lay off for week or and your
Look at skyscraper; automobile; moving
picture shouv; aeropane; read through penny
paper and then back and really work for the firm
You still talk of in,possbities discourage
times.
We did away with pessimists when snapped taow for
electricity
age has dawned-an Of miracles of
revelations png her each other of forces,
IDEALS
constantly speeding faculties grasp 1.-THE Of
the tremendous possibilities crouuding the hghbays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03
BY Herbert Kaufman
Oversight It's


She longer has stroll from door door, All the
she's looking for lined the curb waiting to t with her.
You're hangouerthe left you behind Conservatism,
went out of style when enthusiasm into fashion.
Optimism the big impulse of n,oderny We can't help
believing in bigger than todys Fact has ougrown
the specifications of fancy Prophecy taking the dust of full
fnen Men longer write books such Hooking Back
Oard Before the manuscript type the predictions of
the author would be transcribed by the of scientist
and mechanic.
You're handicap to your business You cling the
ploded theory that every firm should have member who
reGgiousy discounts propositions You only hold don
your job but employees and your partners besides
Modern business demands the spu the checkrei The
clock the bank account Minutes dollars Speed
the bOord and seword Of trade The fast running wheel
jumps the bumps. When it sloeos doun it goes down
You boast that caution has protected the from
loss time and again. but you estimate that your aggng
and doubling have always reduced the and confidence Of
the organization to half power
And it's confidence that the fight nine Of
The battle belongs the brauest Wisdom checmated by
cowardlce. Strength in handcuffs can't be utilized It's the
hitting joyous scrapper who oener makes good zeal
accompanies than paLid reason.
To Tophst with your pad and pencil You calculate eUeEy
thing but the human equation and that IS everything
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Wearing L e a t h e r
Heels on the Toes of
Shoes-The y e est
Corscts-P Panther Girls
of the French Capital.
Claims Made by Physi-
clans That New Corsets
Are Saner Than Any
Ever Adopted.

Special Correspondence ~ The star.
PARIS. JULY 81.
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Half the women in the civilized world
fooled their husbands, fathers brothers.
To whom they demonstrated. The re-
mainder fooled themselves as well. 1t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-16
Rates Must Be Uniform.

Washington, Oct 16.-Failure OF
railroads operating out of Boston to
conform TO the conclusions of the in
terstate commerce commission acting
as a board of arbitration in the i'm
port traffic case probably viii soon
result in a definite order putting the
commissions conclusions into effect
The Boston roads now are charging
lower rates on import traffic to points
west than lines out of New York
1t practically is immaterial to the
commission whether the Boston rates
are raised to the New York rates. or
the New York rates are lowered to
Boston scale. except that if the New
York rates are lowered. il would ne
cessitate readjustment of the west
bound import rates out of Philadel-
phia and Baltimore
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JUST LITTLE BOYS.
But They Are Bad and They Must
Face the Judge.

A gang of little boys have to face
the probate court this week and an
swer many charges of burglary which
are alleged against them by the police
department. Ira Smith. 10 years old.
rested this morning by Sergeant Lon
Sauls and Police Offcer Brush for the
theft of a horse and buggy last night.
Both boys admitted their guilt
In the admission of ira Smith. the
two boys stole a horse and buggy and
later a saddle horse last night They
drove to North Topeka. where they
started on a trip to Colorado TO hunt
bears and fight Indians. on their way
to the Golden Belt road. the two youths
broke into a grocery store belon ging to
Jesse May, 500 North Gordon street.
and stole a box of cigars. candy. a
pipe. tobacco and about so cents in
money After smoking several of the
cigars. the two young boys again
started to go to Colorado. They turned
back later because of the rain and
early this morning left the horse and
ate some breakfast at a small restau-
rant.
The two boys were arrested about 10
O'Clock this morning. 1t is believed
that they have been the culprits o2er-
ating in several petty burgIaries late
ly. Sergeant Sauls said that he had
proof that they were the two who en-
tered the tailor shop Of VIM. Klinge
10 West Fifth street, last week The
Smith boy has brother in the Hutch
inson reformatory for stealing a horse
and his father is in the penitentfary
for the same OffenSe.
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COUPLE FOUND DEAD.
Woman With Throat Cut: Man Shot
Three Times.

Chicago. Oct. ia man and woman
We're found. the woman dead with her
throat cut and the man shot thI ee
times and apparently dying in a room
in the Sherman House here this after
noon. They were registered as Mr.
and Mrs. William E. Ellis of Cincin-
natl, o The death of Mrs. Ellis ap-
parentIy was instantaneous. Ellis IS
said to have been a prominent leather
merchant
Attaches of the hotel said that Ellis
was a mem ber of the wholesale leather
firm of G. E Ellis & Co. of. CinCin-
natl.
Ellis wounds had been inflicted with
a small revolver which was found in
the room He was taken to the county
jalI hospital where 1t was said his
wounds were not necessarily fatal A
small penkuife. with which the police
say the woman's fatal wounds proba bly
had been inflicted, also was found in
the room
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final ROUND MIXED.
England and Yankee VIII Contest in
Wcman's Golf Event.

Washington. Oct 16.-As result of
today's play in the third round, Eng
land and the United States will con-
test in the final match on Saturday
for the American title.
Miss MurieI Dodd, the British and
Canadian champion, today defeated
Mrs. c. H Nanderbeck of Philadel-
phia, while Miss Gladys Rayenscroft, a
former British champion, won from
Miss Fannie c. Osgood, the Massa-
chusetts title holder. Miss Harriet
Curtis OF Boston, former national
champion, captured her match with
Miss Mabel Harrison, the Irish title
holder Miss Marion Rollins of New
York defeated Mrs. E. H Filter of
PHILADELPHIA
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LEGAL.
First published in The Topeka State
Journal October Is, 1871
NOTICE

NOTICE
In the Probate Court OF Shawnee County.
Kansas.
In the matter Of the estate Of Magnes
johnson, deceased
All persons interested will take notice
that my petition is on file in the office
of the Shawnee County Probate Court.
asking for authority to sell the following
described real estate, situated in Shawnee
County. Kansas, belonging to the estate
of Aagnes Johnson. deceased. for the pur
pose of paying the debts of said estate
and the expenses of adninistratio to-
wit: Lots Twenty-nine cd and Thirty (S0)
in Block b on Sixth avenue East in
Swygart's subdivision in Shawnee County,
Kansas. according to the recorded plat
thereof.
said petition is set for hearing Saturday,
the 1st day of November. 1913, at 10
o cIocI a m. at which time and place
you can make known any objections you
may have 10 the granting of such order
of sale. C. f. USTAFSON.
Administrator.
Dated this 18th day Of October. 1913
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Meets Next in St. Louis.

New York Oct. 16.-The house Of
deputies of the Protestant Episcopal
church. in trienniaI general convention
here. voted today TO hold the general
convention at St Louis in 1916. The
decision must be ratified by the house
of bishops. Indications were that this
would be done.
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Schooner on the Rocks.

Eureka, Cal, Oct. IA wireless
message received here last night from
the steam schooner MERGED bound
from san Francisco to Astoria and
Portland with % passengers and a
cal go OF lumber, says the vessel had
gone on the rocks off Point GoTCla
All the passengers and most of the
crew were sent ashore in small boats
In the foggy weather prevailing it is
believed the vessel ran out of her