Show NO STOMACHS STO FOR WOMEN The National Dressmakers Dressmakers' association is a amore amore amore more important body than the tile Mothers Mothers' congress or oreen even en the Daughters of the Revolution He At its last meeting it just did things It promulgated edicts that no C Czar mr or Sultan could enforce But nut sure of its ground it went on n without doubt douht or fear Editors Edi Edi- tors tois had hud denounced the sweeping train of women's dresses sanitarians had read papers to dozing ing scientists scientists scientists and absurd Boards of Health on the subject but all to no purpose The train went on sweeping on sidewalk and gathering up tip microbes and molecules molecules mole mole- cules without number Perhaps fo io show what it could do the National DC Dressmakers Dressmakers' association then took a a. hand The particular reason which urged Dame Fashion capricious as she is is to this course is not known Tt It may have been heen because e she wished d to assert t the feminine prerogative ive of chan changing changing chang chang- ing her mind at an any old time or it n may J be e that she felt that she had already visited punishment enough h hon on her hOr votaries in the shape of mud and microbes t But the real motive back of the amputation of the street train we shall perhaps never nevel know It may have haye been Fashions Fashion's way of showing that she can cando cani i do things when she sets her mind min on doing so Often Of ten she does oes things for no reason at all or for which she cannot give any reason If n she could give reasons for all her acts she would cease to be bc femi I nine The microbes have at all events got the tile worst worst of of f it They Ther may wait in vain ain in dust and dirt to fo be bet t wafted by a silken train into eyes eye nose nose or mouth of r luckless mankind But their waiting shall be he vain p Fashion may howe however hower r in cutting off the train go o to extremes in the thc other direction She may cut off too much and ot offend end not not only microbes but but moralists The substitution of a skirt for a dragging microbe laden train hain would be easy for so capricious a female leader as Dame Fashion Her capriciousness is evident from another decree of the thc National Dressmakers' Dressmakers association which has or 01 ordered ordered dered woman to get rid of her bel stomach The rhe Chicago Chi cago ass assures res us that The primary purpose of this organization is to protect the home borne industry from invasion by Paris and Berlin modist mo mo- mo dist s who it is claimed appropriate American ideas in female adornment work them into gowns owns und and sell them to gullible foolish American women Papers of so sonic some ne length were read before the as association asso asso- o. o elation to show how tile the decree could be carried carriel out was made absolute Straight fronts or 01 nothing land and th the stomach arbitrarily pronounced out of st style le The Thc Chicago women were of cour course e fi J. J L I I seriously disturbed by the issuance of the decree So Ho saith the thc R Record Herald The announcement hat stomachs will not be le in vogue ogue in ill the smart cir cil circles des cles this fall fail and winter will ill be distressing news flews to those ladies who have been carelessly permitting nature to take its course oure in the matter of embon point But Hut this is the edict of the autocrats of fashion fashion fash fash- ion ane and ladies lacHes who persist in wearing stomachs cannot can call not hope to pass muster in the smart set Here is how the feminine stomach is to but hut cut out It fl was on corset da day that th the dressmakers were fold told that the tIle main object to be bc obtained in adjusting adjusting adjust adjust- ing the corset Is the complete of that tillIt commonplace and awl entirely unnecessary organ the thc stomach This is easily casily accomplished by hj putting on the corset while lying ling down In this position the bod body is is limp and pliable and when the tile bod body assumes as as- an erect pm position it will be found that the unfashionable un tin fashionable stomach has disappeared So the stomach will sill go where the lon long street train has gone It is however howe safe to sn say that it will not sta stay quite as long gone The next ice cream cretini season will recall it |