| Show DEFENDER OF GIRL EXTREMIST IS Ii U. U SCORED Us Use of Rouge and Tight Fitting Apparel Is Condemned I EW TEW YORK i Dec ec 25 When 25 When Dr Ro Bo Rojal al S. S Copeland health commission commission- error New York let slip the Innocent little litte e statement that that high heels f fashionably fashionably fash fash- Sh- Sh shaped corsets silk stockings a anti Ott rouge ouge have not proved harmful to tor A American r girls he was merely assuming assum assum- role of knight er erra errant er- er in ing the a gallant ra rant t r rushing shing to the tho aid of young w en who are so ailing that they Jn mist must t hide sallow skins beneath a layer of paint and who are so dirty they are are- forced to use powder At t least so says Dr Florence Florenc L. L l 1 Die Meredith edith edth girl health expert who has mt m made de physical examination of yo young young ng women during her career In fa fait fact t Dr Meredith waxes hot over the heath health commissioners commissioner's statement which w was was accompanied by statistics to prove that beauty lotions have not increased th th populations of our asylums With just a trace of sarcasm in her voice Dr Meredith adds G G LS ILS CRITICISED Like Ike a gallant knight errant Dr Copeland has rushed to the defense of whom whom His sisters rs in the upward march march of civilization No to the de- de of a girl who is so stupid and vain and sex centered that she will ta sacrifice everything even the health of h body to win this gallant admiration admiration admiration admira admira- tion the tile girl who is so ailing that she hasto use rouge to present a a. counter- counter felt of health who is so dirty that she I h S to use powder to cover up her unwholesome unwholesome un un- wholesome skin who cares iso So o little un-I un ab about abut ut being of use In the world that sh she is willing to cripple herself herselt falsely believing b ieving as hundreds of girls have told me that men wouldn't like to see seeth th thorn In what they consider unappealing unappealing ing clothes fir Wr Copeland's statements that women are becoming longer lived and th that t sanitariums for nervous people have hae not received an unusual number of of patients are of course not not a scientific basis for the deductions which hc h he makes males th the oung young physician continued continued con con- more calmly I r do not think high heels or corsets are a cause cause of premature death They merely lower efficiency The woman who wears th them m Is merely less alive She is 75 p per cent alive Instead of per cent CALLED INDOLENT Hardly ardlY a respectable foot has been beenes s e-s examined mined at the health center and sc scarcely a girl with good posture The type of shoe and corset worn has been largely responsible for this pathetic fa fact t. t The girl who begins to get plump mp around the waist and hips In Instead instead instead in- in stead of exercising a little Justifiable va vanity ity and at the same time making malting pr it for her figure from the sugar shortage keeps on with her indolent habits and self Indulgent eating de dep depending depending de- de p pending on the corset to make up for these quite serious defects in her own I disposition The modern corset It is tr true e Is not the harmful Invention that It wised sed to be I object to It rat rather er on th the ground that It induces laziness and sl sloppiness of carriage the high heeled shoe Is another master It Is positively harmful Backaches Backaches Back Back- aches aCles headaches s and a long train of minor disabilities of women follow In th J wake of the wrong posture which high heeled shoes necessitate SHOES TOO SMALL it t Is not true that the new ideas are not gaining many converts Practically Practical Practical- ly all the girls who have come to the health center in bad shoes have said I 1 1 now I ought not to wear these sh shoes shoes' es Most of them realize that they do donot not ot have correct posture The feet in Wellesley college are beautiful The girls girts there almost uniformly wear foot shaped shoes and I think that Is true of college women in general I should sa say that about 25 per cent of Incoming rr fre freshmen at dt t Wellesley do not wear co corsets ets and a much larger per cent take them off oft In the course of their college col ge education Among the tho younger actresses also there is a great fad just no noy r to go so Factory girls o ont orthe the other hand nearly all aU wear lh them in It Itis js is a matter of education I rost f women have very vague Ideas I about their responsibility In the matter mat- mat pf tet ter pf tempting men away from what i Ith their r own Ideals would have them 1 ve to They still believe in the old fry pry that perfectly innocent and un- un Jf f girls are seduced by depraved mail n and will not admit what whit they theyo o oj ld ld observe with the tho greatest ease easo lh Litt t a good percentage of hitherto inn in- in n nos tent and well meaning boys have oe n carried to the point of loss of set self ei restraint by girls who did not pera perla per- per la a s s. s know better but should have ride r le word of countless men of every nd and variety is to ta the effect that lo othes lothes bes which women wear or do not wear make clean living a thousand Imes mes harder than it need be |
