Show OIUTSAUE AGAEVST TIIE CORSET S The crusade recently started by the S French Academy of Medicine against 1 > the wearing of corsets will wake a ihrijl of joy in the hearts of the army fJJt pommon sense enthusiasts How 1 0 H S often have they inveighed against the relics of the middle ages and barbaric ideas how they have beaten their wings against the stone walls of custom cus-tom without making any impression But when the French take it up there is some hope and new courage will be felt by the adherents of the health waist and the dress reform style of garment which needs no corset to make it set properly If the Parisian Paris-ian dressmakers and fashion autocrats can be induced to espouse the cause of comfort and common sense there is hope of America following in their sacred footsteps The beruffled and laced and wasp waisted maiden has had her day and heigho for Inc bloomer cyclist and the ways of health This desire for athletic glory carries with it a necessity for home and gymnasium gym-nasium exercise too and even Paris has taken it up and a society of French women has been formed for the purpose of waging war Here in America our girls have long copied their English cousins in that one point of sensible exercise and gymnasium gymna-sium practice i1 no new thing It is between the ways of dressing that the differences lie Every gymnasium teacher tells the same taleaf the difficulty of persu ding d-ing i the fashionable young women to leave off her corsets even during the hours of exercise This was much worse some years ago The sensible idea has been gradually instilled and a visit to the physical culture school shows a set of welldeveloped and properly dressed young amazons |