The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-11
is THERE FREEDOM
IN CORSETS? YES
At Least That's What Prof,
Munter Claims in Clinic
Staged at Bry's.

softly they truoped out-thrco young
girls clothed in Turkish looking hurem
effects, through which Elistcned pretty
and frcsh-colOred corsets,
Behind me sat a huge looking person
Who heaVed a self-satisted sigh and
settled himself to enjoy the afternoons
entertainment.
Plaintiveiy from somewhere came the
tones OF dreamy-ayaltz music, and care
fully the girls danced. one Of the per-
formers was stout and one thin. ! no.
uced, however. that the other rosenl-
hled the mother bear Ia the fairy tale,
being sort of medium.
Was late, Iudeiy SO. but so we're
other women n men who trooped IN
with a mixture Of interest and doubt
registered upon their faces. II was n
little u~nusual-the afternoon entertain
W~ent-froh that usually offered at the
movies and local piayhouSes, IL was
ah-hem-a lecture upon c%orsets, given
In the lecture o third floor, Brys
department store, By Prof. Charles
Munter,
Who in the world Is he9 Wen. time
was when he was Il tuberculosis patient
residing IN Denver, waiting only 70 die.
Il was then that he got the corset
idea from a nurse, who carelesSly
slipped his pillow under his shoulder
instead Of his head.
but Munter objected. 1T feels better
this way" he insisted.
And gradually he began TO forget his
pain IN planning TO CONSTRUCT something
that would cure the aches and ills OF
the human race. Finally he decided 10
leave his bed and work hard for the
short time that was left him. for he
had been given four months In which
to die.
So dlsmissing even the services OF a
nurse, he left Denver n travelled
eastward. In the big cities Of that e.
fete section people laughed at his idea
that half way between the neck and
the end Of the spine is the human cen
ter OF gravity, Large pattern manuiac-
turers refused to consider his PROPOSE
tion and shrugged when he explained
| his views concerning h matter, ~
| last, however, after he had fashioned
a model himself--a crude torso-ltke
| thing that portrayed his conception ~
| corsets-an Eastern manufacturers re-
considered and attempted the pattern.
That was about seven years ago,
| Since that time Prof, hunters inren-
| tion has spread throughout the East and
West and is even now creeping south,
ITS a comfortable corset that ad-
justs and ~straightens the bones" he
explained yesterday, and It's power
have been tested under the
X-ray, II Is a queer model because
the tighter YOU wear the hin ms
fTeer YOU feel inslde. | can make stoui
ladies' slender. and slender ladies fat
and II all depends simply upon a mat
ter Of corsets, My invention teaches
one to breathe
gasped-thin ladies fat-no ! didn'
believe ! dared. still another girl did anC
there over her frock the corset inventor
and his assistant, Mile. DUPONT, et
fected the TRANSPORTATION. u was
sort OF trick the invention had Of caus
ing the chest to extend and settling III
shoulders properly
A fat lady was worked on. also, an
she came out beautifully curved an
gracious looking and she insisted sh
felt thoroughly comfortable, The Who'll
thing was remarkable.
War has killed its thousands, bu
corsets have murdered millions Nun
ter said Yesterday, "and the only trio
about the thing is that the model NJ
snugly and allows the wearer to breath
easily and naturally. Besides II cure
ilis-has made me a well man-yes,
wear a g~entlenan's edition myself,
He calls his invention the "Nulife
corset. and will lecture upon II at Bry'
| each afternoon this week.