The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-16

rie and Miss Leona swenson. sOe Clay
| street.
Miss Myrtle Fultz entertained with
a breakfast and party at her home
near Gage park this morning.
The guests included:
Miss Margaret New Miss Jessie Mann
Miss Bertha Down PeEschisnke
Miss IEehe T1lsS mur iPs srscSIsuke
Miss Flora Murrison
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FTlAPPERS LAXITY.
There still survive in the United
States not a few gentlemen (they were
bridegrooms in the seventies) who
cling hard to the old idea that the
able article of woman's apparel, and
| who would. If they could, rout the tor
turing contraption from the land, says
Eleanor Gates. the author.
I grant that corset-wearing can be
abused-just as one can ruin the feet
| with overnight shoes. and discourage
the growth of hair by a too-snug
bowler. But how far removed from
| the former combination of steel ribs
and unyielding buckram bands is to-
days de-boned affair Of much elias
| ITCHY, especially and scientifically
suited to each of the mine types of
ideal feminine figure, style-giving,
health preserving, comfortable, grace
full, sensible.
Consider the modern corset from
the standpoint of psychology: the
young women who have been shedding
their stays these last couple of
years have, whether they knew it or
not, shed far more than that. For
bodily SlackneSS, and careless slouch-
ing, mean a loss of personal discipline.
A corsetless waist is apt to accompany
an air OF unreStraint. Corsets come
off. galoshes go unfastened, and, yes,
lower lips hang. If you don't believe
it, just observe the uncorseted young
girl, in the shops and the restaurants
and the theaters. Mouth-breathers!
For the corset is to a woman exact
ly what a uniform is to man. 1t
makes for an erect carriage. 1t tells
its wearer that she looks well. What
ever she has put on has stayed put!
And instinctively she Feels self-re-
spect Can you imagine man not
suffering a loss of morale II we made
him go to business or to a social func-
ton without his collarT The buck
ram is the bulwark of the conventions.
The corset and the collar flung
aside, there also departs mental alert |
ness. We say that a hat or a Irock
on a woman looks Smart And
that word. When you know you are
looking your best, your brain func- |
tons at its best. Smart!
But take the matter of health: I've |
days when it's fortunately fashion |
able to have a big waist and wear the |
corset loose, there is yet support. You
know that when you see the uncor-
seted flapper Hopping. But the best |
argument of all is the one of health
protection. Men have their open |
coats, and their acknowledgements
front vests, and they suffer from di-
geStive troubles far more than do wo-
men. A sudden change of tempera-
ture, a sharp breeze, and the mans /
stomach is chilled. But the woman? |
To her vital organs the corset 10 a
shield.
No, we women no longer confine |
our waists to any extent-just enough /
to keep us from the death-dealing
practice of over-eating: We put the
pressure around the hips, where 1t |
discourages the fat. And as you ap-
proach your women friends. from the |
standpoint of the figure it's as the /
modern rhyme goes:
"Oh. I cannot tell mother from
daughter"
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. w. w. Strickland has returned |
from a weeks stay in Hutchinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Holmes Meade. who
have spent a large part of the summer
in Long Beach. Cal, returned homo
Saturday.
Mrs Frank Hobart who &c visiting