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Show ABOUT LACING. To argue, says the "Book of the Horse," with those infatuated ladies who superstitiously believe that men's eyes are charmed and that men's hearts are won by a wrist resembling as nearly as possible the form of a wasp or an hour-glass, would be a waste of time. No number of surgical cases would convince them that to compress the stomach, the bowels, the heart, the lungs, the liver, within the limits of a corset several sizes too small is, sooner or later, equally fatal to health and to beauty. But of one fact in regard to equestrianism they may easily convince themselves - namely that as the elegances of a woman on horseback depends entirely on the flexibility of her figure, she can never ride well enough to be worth looking at off a walk, unless she is contented with a corset that will not compress the vital organs. If she cannot lace her own boots and put up her back hair, she may give up the idea of becoming a horse-woman, or anything better than a stuffed doll on horseback. A woman who means to ride well can neither afford to cramp her muscles nor to impede the circulation of her blood. |