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Show Three Hen Peep i a Corset Show Watched Pretty Models Do' Stunts That Astonished Audience Before Be-fore Discovery. CHICAGO. March 2C Moro than two hundred society women and fashlonablo dressmnkers attended the physical culture cul-ture lecturo and corset demonstration of Mmc, Wade at tho National Dressmakers' association convention yesterday afternoon after-noon to witness sights from which men wore barred. Mme. Wndo tersely told of measurements nnd skillful tricks of the corset-litter to give stout women a waist of wasp-llko appearance. Proper Waist Measure. "The proper waist mensurc Is twentv-s twentv-s x inches, but you must make it look eighteen." said the madaine. 'You don't have to squeeze at all. You must wear a proper corset, get Into It properly,- and take tho simple physical culture exercises which I shall show you." Stunning Stunts. Then Jlmc. YVadu, with tho aid of somo ravlshlngly pretty models and some cor-,sotH, cor-,sotH, proceeded to do stunts that astonished aston-ished and Interested her audlenco. Sim took up a white silk corset with pale pink rosebuds embroidered upon It and loosened loos-ened the strings until the corset would have gone around the fat woman In tho circus. Interrupted by Shriek. Then she wrapped around the figure of a young girl the prettiest 'lingerie that oy.gr adorned a prcttv girl. "You first fasten tho gar " Mme. Wade'a sentence was Interrupted by a surprised shriek from the rear. A puritanical spinster In a brown suit clutched Mmo. Wade by tho sleove. "There's three men there In the corners cor-ners bohlnd tho dressmaking screens," she said excitedly. "1 think It Is positively posi-tively awful lo have them here." Dashed for Screens. But Mme. Wade did not wait for her views upon tho subject. She made a dnsh for tho screens. "Come out of that." she said sternly, and three sheepish-looking men followed her majestic lend to the door. The door.s were closed, a watch set and the demonstration demon-stration resumed , j |