Show rapidTAFT TAFT IN A CORSET MME JACQUES PROMISES SECRETARY SECRE-TARY NEW FIGGER President May Also Adopt New Method to Reduce Girth and Become Be-come SylphLIke Will Wear Long Stockings Too New YorkSecretary of War Taft candidate for president will wear a corset to reduce his girth If It Is successful President Roosevelt may also adopt the same method Cartoonists the country over who are now using only balloon lines In their various designs of Secretary Taft will have to get out their models of sylphs and hamadryads for Mme Jacques a famous corset maker declared de-clared that In tinco months she will have completely banished his embonpoint embon-point and reduced him to the slim I symmetry of a ballet dancer I Mme Jacques mado this vast promise prom-ise as she boarded the St Louis tho other day to return to her shop in London after having established two branches In Washington and this city She spoke as lightly of her corseting process by which William Wil-liam II Taft will attain the lissome grace of a woodland elf as If It was simply the belting In of a debutante Furthermore Mine Jacques promises prom-ises to achieve a new flgger for President Roosevelt who sho said Is getting altogether too glrdy Boxing wrestling Jumping fivebarred fences and tho light exercise of reeling off 20000word messages have failed to keep the chief executives waist down i will return In n month said I Mine Jacques and expect to take tho president Immediately In hand I haw his promise that If I accomplish my designs on Secretary Taft ho will be measured for my belt and stock Ings Mr Tafts girth Is now 58 Inches and just as a beginning I am reducing It to 40 After that if he wishes amore a-more willowy figure I can accomplish It I never fall Mme Jacques explained that her corset Is not really a corsetthat Is It Is not of tho whalebone and steel stay Uu I species worn by her sex and the graceful men of the French nobility Strictly speaking It is a belt that girdles In thc forward overhang To It there Is attached by garters long silk striped stockings to give a more slender slen-der effect The stockings said the corset maker help to shape the thighs and glvo tho leg a graceful slenderness Imagination helps a lot In my process proc-ess for I have found that when my patients believe tho offensive curves aro fading they actually do fade Now Secretary Taft Is only one of scores of distinguished men who are now being gathered into Blonder lines by my belts and stockings When I come back thero will be a procession of them stretching from the capitol to tho White House walking briskly with heads erect chests out and well it will have completely vanished Why I have somo men under treatment treat-ment who have not seen their Trll bysfor years who will bo able to turn a back somersault with ease In a few months |