Show corsets and husbands we know we are aro hand band handling a delicato linia subject when wo we take hoid hold old oid of a womans comans waist but what would you have when women hold mass conventions and display before them tho the innermost garments of the sex explaining their make and discussing their material without the slightest indication of squeamishness ish ness and when they insist that the fate of the world rests on the mothers in the world and that the welfare of thern thorn the others mothers dep depends eDdson on tho the make inake of the garments worn by iry them and when stockings and anel un der drawers anid annd outer drawers and chemises and corset covers and and under sleeves and habit shirts and ustle bustle supporters are held up and shaken s aken and turned inside out and an the manner of wearing illustrated to a crowded a audience in a public hall does it not become the duty of a journalist to investigate a little As our readers know a womans comans congress lias has been in session in chicago discussing everything from human rights in the tho abstract wo marps rights to the ballot in particular ti and so down to the question whether the winter under wrapper should be of merino or red flannel the affair cloned on saturday las lar last with a dress dres parade of under gar ments by mrs flynt of boston I 1 with explanations of what is right and what not right in the make of such articles her lecture was interrupted by questions ond discus sious which made mado the affair highly interesting of course corsets came up for consideration mrs flynt disapproved of corbets she would live have nothing i to do with corsets corbets were womans comans enemies enerle s she made that dik dis discovery one day when a tight chemise sleeve hurther hurt her and arid she relieved the pressure with a slight snip ot tile the scissors from tight chemise sleeves to tight coi col corsets her thoughts leaped in an instant she took off the tile corset from her waist and received her customers in a skirt and all that day she fancied that she was quite nude I 1 and made sundry visits to the mirror to assure herself that she was decently clad to appear before people tho the second day she felt as if she had lost every friend she had in the world the third day the gloom increased the fourth the clouds commenced breaking the fifth the sun shone in fitful gleams the sixth there was a bright and unclouded sky and she was herself again in perfect healthy she weighed two hundred pounds since she had left off corsets she could run up three flights of stairs mount a stepladder step ladder like a child aud and axa vas a thoroughly healthy agile active woman even a preceding 1 inflammatory rheumatism having been wholly overcome to prove rove her words mrs flynt showed ier eer her agility by running up and down the platform amid ure uge t the applause of the audience then mrs urs livermore rose and propounded a serious question to mrs flynt what was she to do when after an enormous strain upon ker ber her system she had to come upon the platform with an all gone feeling there is not a woman living who know what that is she was forced to assume corsets sometimes as a remedial agent she could not rest with her work to do and she could not stand without this extraneous support she seemed to have no stomach at all one lady not of the crusading kind suggested a little litke wine for the sto stomachs machlis sa gake sake ke mrs urs livermore replied th that arter after fainting four times upon the pla pia platform t one day her physician had bad said she must take wine and egg she did so the first hour she felt very high and lofty she could nob not talk fast or fluently enough everything was at a very exalted altitude at the end of that time the reaction came and she not only wanted to die but considered suicide a christian duty corsets seemed to be her only help for the allgon all ali gone gon e feeling mrs flynt said a little warm milk and water sweetened was her tonic and she i talked all day on that stimulant nt from eight in the morning till six at night cleveland herald Ilera td |