Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-03-27

one may study this cosmopolitan city and
Its cosmopolitan people that one is apt to
lose all sense of perspective.
AS to your women, I was not slow to
notice that the mass of them are much
more sensibly dressed than their French
or American cousins. In a great measur
this is because they apparently do not go
to extremes. They are discreet In their
tastes, and do not favour fads OF fashion
simply because they happen to be .tn
style"
l have noticed that the TI~nglishwoman
as a rule hesitates before accepting any
thing new, cut when she does accept
something new she does so because it has
merit. The good reason which every
Englishwoman wants to know before She
adopts changes in dress generally con-
Germs health and hygiene.
Indeed, j nave noticed particularly that.
as was proved by the thousands of women
who have attended the lectures / have
been giving at S%elfridge's, the woman
over here is greatly interested In anything
that pertains to hygiene. She is anxious
to learn more about how to keep we'll,
for She realizes what good health means
a woman's good looks, a woman's correct
figure, and a woman's gay spirits.
1 have noticed, too, that ~Englishwomen
seem to favour brighter colours than their
American cousins. This seems due to the
IuSL NIldS lIS- III III wv OIiiCA INV
are somewhat sturdier. and therefore
favour black or dark dress fabrics.
One of my main reasons for coming to
England Is to talk to women on the
necessity for proper corseting.
Some women are always complaining,
always frowning, and always telling their
neighbours that they arc full of aches.
You may take it that their troubles are
due to corsets. They are the kind of wom-
en- whose husbands seek the aid of the
divorce tribunal.
No other article of woinan's dress de-
mands such care in selection as the cor
set. On it depends woman's success or
failure, physically and mentally. Injury
does not, of course, come from wearing
the corset, but from the slipshod man
ner in which it is worn by so per cent
of women.
Experience tells me that the corset
should be three inches less than the waist
measurement. and, above all, it should be
put on while reclining. for then the or
gans of the body are in their normal
position.
i do not think it is any use talking to a
woman about her soul il her corset does
not fit her.
This is the era Of the large waist and
straight lines, and small waists are an
abomination. / regard the present fash
ions as the most hygienic with which
women have been fayoured for decades,
for the day of many petticoats has passed.
and consequently the body is relieved of
much superfluous weight.
AS to the perfect figure, uncorseted, my
ideal measurements are:
Height .....".......... . IT: ms.
weight .................... lbU IDS.
Bust observation-disclosures to 40 ins.
Waist .26 or II ms.
Hip measuremcnt.........3 80 to Al ms.
/ should not be satisfied If | concluded
this article without a word of warming re-
garding freak dances. So far most of the
opposition has concerned the moral side
of these fads. but these silly dances are
physically bad as we'll as morally bad.
The turkey trot. the bunny hug, the
tango, and all other dances Of the rag
time species are the cause of poor figures.
while they also cause deformitics. The
positions Of the hips in these exhibitions
throw them into all sorts of attitudes,
and thereby encourage superiuous flesh,
as we'll as displacing the internal organs.
They throw the whole body out of poise
altogether.
The moral is: IL you wish to have a
good figure, don't tango. and refrain from
ragtirne dances. Ragtime and tango
dances would demoralize the figure of a
Greek goddess and transform her to the
shape of a sack of potatoes.