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Show If BUYING A CORSET. L;i ! (A Monologue.) ' '; jS By Bessie U KmhqM l Yes, wo can soli you a corset, Madam. We've , just the grandest lino. There ain't a store in 1 1!$f fit town carrIes the corsot8 wo (l0 antl we say lfc ' K with pride that wo can lit any figure. Yes'ra, $ On we can fit your's oven. But of course it will take ij Wt time, and you will have to step into one of our '' M fit fitting rooms,, and let us put one on you. fll Oh, we've got them, all grados, from ?2 to $25. " i'Jf H Here's a lovely French thing, ac ?18, and another :n at $22.60. You know you can't be beautiful unless jH you pay beautifully. That's what I say, and 1 ,H know what I'm saying and it's thase that has H that can pay. I ain't agoin' to &how rich custom-, custom-, ;H v ors, like you, none of those cheap John goods we . ul 1 shop girls has got to buy them. I'm surprised that anybody'd sell you a cor- ? : I set like that one you've got on. Yos yos lot's ',jijJ go right in and get it off of you, my dear. I j 1 should th'nk you would lose patience tryin', it pi.;S i that's what you get for your pains. No, wo don't !?f I mind the trouble, for we know what our corsets '.'I W will do. It's just terrible the way that corset "t you've got disfigures you, madam. ., it it's yos, I'll unfasten it for you. No, you V needn't mind that space thoro. There ain't no- s body walkin' by but the floor walker, and he's ;!f jjm got a wife who wears our corsets altogether, but i .::,' H its equal as bad there, for there's offlco buildings ' ' "lir MD across the street, and this here shade ain't .jHfifiB worked for a week. My, my, but we'll do right f 4j 96 by you, lady, and you'll bo the handsomest thing ' lit HI 0,1 Broadway, when -you get your shape right. ;,-flH It's all well enough to talk about features and ", !; H hair and brains and disposition, but really now ' it's the shape that that counts. You know that ' ($ old Kentucky saying: "Some likes 'em pretty in ' i the face, but more likes 'em small around the m waist." g I And your waist is a sight! Dear me, but this ; .f! here corsot will fix you. Just draw in a deep i la Lreath and contract yourself so and let me pull 4 "!i H ul) tllG abdomen so. Now chank yourself over 'H'Tilm tllls way 80 antl you draw 0110 8trinS while .1 j draw the other so! There now, you've got a )' 111 fii 01l n0 11 a,n t t'sbt, no. It's just this here i 'Mm H radiator. I'll nolst the window some . But you ' f'flffl H can breathe some, can't you? You don't expect !j jjjfj HJ to take long breaths do you? And it's so boauti- i ' Si tul ! Why, lady, I was demonstrating this cor- 'rtffjffi sot In Now York before I came Wost with it, and v pJW I'll bet I've put a shape on at leasUa fourth of $m i them society 400's yes'm, I have. M If 1 didn't have confidence in it, I wouldn't bo i it I here today. I'll guarantee this here corsot to $ m f keep its shape for a year and i.ovor break a bono fji! it or slip a steel. The whale bones are made os- 'hi recially for us from selooted whales, and the , j corsot is designed and manufactured in Paris, . jijfpjif ! 0n there's nothin' like a corsot to give you M I shape, and if you've got shape you've got overy- ') "IR tUlng' lady YesYG8 n0 1 'Jon,t think it's high. LflT IbI1 11 8 redlculous cllQnP- Yes I know yes but if I PjIR you've got it, why not spend it'. And I can loosen I' 'HflH il a blttll(re so. now! Feel better? I thought ' ' lOT-K you would- A"d you want to keep it on? ' Wat 1 Well 1 iUBt would, If I were you. My, how i I H j beautiful you are, in that corset. The floor walk-H walk-H i er better not. walk here now, and no, I am in j ' ea"iest about it. I simply love you in this B mi 1 1 And al)0ut tue Iacers they're extra, you know. iB 'frill Yes Yes ana this blue rad, all perfumed, Hi if whIch you wear aD0V0 tli bust you see there. Ain't you a dream? Yes Yob they are high, but wo have to have them, lady. Yes and where shall I send the old one? What is the name? Don't want it at all? Lady, you're a peach. The Mirror. |