Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-03-01 | Page 21 | Did Eve Wear Corsets?

Did Evo Wear Corsets I The 1903 exhibition of works by the old masters certainly deserves Its name for the works shown go back I to iho time of Daedalus say to 200 H C These exhibits arc mostly the result of researches and excavations undertaken by Mr Arthur Evans between be-tween 1S91 find 1U02 inclusive In Crete Ty begin with the palace of Minos at Knossos of which Daedalus was the architect had a I complete system of bathH with a drainage system supplied with ventilating shafts and other sanitary san-Itary arrangements on an almost modern mod-ern plan In a watercolor drawing from a fresco we See a bulltight There arc no horses In the ring but there is a bull a magnificent animal together with three bulllighters Two of them an ladles Thoy are scantily dressed but what struck t us most was the l size of their waists Presuming that the KnoHsian lady was of about the same shoe as a modern Englishwoman her waist would have been about twelve Inches In circumference As the rlolh Ing of the lady In question consists simply or a cornet made apparently of some golden fabric and a small scarf depending In front and from behind It It would seem that I the Culminations which the medical profesulon has forages for-ages been hurling at tight stays can no longer be sustained on the ground that these articles arc a modern Innovation In-novation nor can It be said that they impede muscular action Possibly however the lady In question only girded herself In lIt fashion shown when she was In the ring and so escaped es-caped gastroptosls digestive troubles a rod ccc and fits of the vapors all of rich have been ascribed to tight stays of modern type London Lancet