Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-20
Of CORSETS
ON HEALTH DEBATED
BY FAY STEVENSON

Z IA N1IrSON
NEW YORk-Dr. Katheryn Cor
coran, medical director of the Wom-
ems Catholic Order of Foresters,
speaking before the National Frater-
nal congress, said that the discard
ing of corsets by women had made
them better insurance risks. In go
ing without steel supports Br. Cor
coran said that woman was playing
up her curves and developing muscu-
lar activity and endurance almost
equal to that of man.
Going without cOrsets is a good
bottle" said DR.. Corcoran. THE
modern woman is too busy working
and exercising to have time to think
about her heart and her stomach and
their ills. Women are much health
Ter than their grandmothers, who
squeezed their twenty-five waists
into twenty-inch corsets."
But DR.. Alice Bowman, specialist
on Womens diseases, and for three
years house physician for the New
York Medical College and Hospital
for Women, does not agree that the
corsetless woman is as strong as her
sister who wears the proper corset.
1.-THE present-day corset does not
pinch and squeeze like the one grand
ma wore," said DR.. Bowman at her
office, No 9o7 Sterling Place, Brook
Ign. mo woman laces today and
S1OIS ttle lOIlS, Well-Slltsi)Gu cor
set which supports the abdominal or
gans and keeps the pressure off the
pelvic organs is Woman's healthiest
and best garment. A proper cSTset
gives good posture, supports all weak
muscles and organs and will keep
the average woman in the best of
health.
when we were in the war and
had so many conductorettes and tick
ct choppers I was physician for the
b. X. T., and many women came to
me asking whether they should wear
their corsets for this work. In al
most every instance I found that the
work"
Then you do not think that the
corsetless woman will get stronger,
developing muscular activity and en-
durance equal to that of manor 7
asked.
ION the contrary, her muscles will
relax and she will not be able to
stand or sit as well as if she wore
a corset, which keeps her back
straight and all Of her organs in
their proper place" replied DR.. Bow
man. This is especially true in the
case OF the mother type Any woman
who has borne children will have
muscles which are more or less FLAG
cid and she needs a proper corset to
keep her figure in the correct pos
ture.
'The business girl needs corsets,
too. She needs them when she is at
her desk. She needs them if she is
on her feet much and she needs them
when she is riding home at night
on the subway. The girl whose or
gans are supported and held in pro-
per shape can balance herself on a
swerving, jerking subway far better
than the girl whose figure is not held
in place"
"How about the little dob who
checks her corset in the dressing
room before she enters the dancer"
"She will come to me later" said
DR.. Bowman, with a nod. Dancing
without corset the modern way has
injured many a girls health.
"There is hardly a woman in any
line of business who does not need a
sensible support" concluded DR..
Bowman. Even the housewife
should go about her busting and
sweeping in a corset rather than to
allow herself to do her work in in
correct pastures. Women's figures
will never be muscular and built
upon the same endurance plan as
mems. And the woman who wears
a properly fitting corset is bound
to have a healthier, stronger figure
than the corsetlcss humpty-dumpty
tyDe."