| Show WOMANS DRESS the fashion of outdoor sports for young ladies is showing them that they cannot become experts if fettered by fashionable dress not long ago I 1 was talking to an assemblage of ladies upon healthful dress alq at the close of the hour a tall graceful woman came up to me and said 1 I want to say that I 1 do not wear corsets I 1 gave them up two years ago when I 1 began to ride the tricycle I 1 found that they impeded the use of my limbs and fettered ma me unnecessarily since I 1 discarded then I 1 can ride without fatigue my health has improved and I 1 am so much more comfortable A writer in the late number of the graphic advises young ladies in playing laying lawn tennis to dispense with witt the corset but suggests if they will not heed this that they wear the breakfast corset which gives the least possible restriction to free movement of the body not long since I 1 saw a young girl hastily doffing donning for the first time a tennis costume a plain short skirt and as a waist er brothers brother shirt her ber own blouse waist being still unfinished swinging her arms over her head bead she exclaimed how nice it seems to be able to move my arms freely I who in this reign of tight sleeves cannot sympathize with her and with the young lady who confidently asks in fk a letaw to toa a friend can you button your boots with your corsets on or put your bonnet on after your dress is fastened we laugh at the woman who sits site in front of us in the cars who cannot tie her veil because bel pause of her tight sleeves while at the same time we know we are bound by the same fetters and are unwilling to be free how we would sneer at a man whose coat sleeves would pinion his arms so that he could not snatch at the top of his hat bat when he bowed to a lady or reach to button his collar in the back thirty beirs ago we were ham by the extreme length of the shoulder seara but now when fash ion demands a short shoulder seam that would give us freedom we seek out other devices that may interfere with our rights of liberty and the pursuit of any happiness that demands an upward reach late one evening I 1 was sent for to visit a patient whom I 1 found partly undressed and looking with seared scared face t her hands and arms 1 I 1 dont know what is the matter she exclaimed my arms feel so numb do you think I 1 am going to have paralysis 1 I saw that the veins of her arms we were re engorged with blood as if from pressure and I 1 asked are the sleeves you wore today very tight she thought a minute and replied yes particularly at the armhole that is probably the cause of your trouble I 1 explained As soon as circulation is reestablished established re your paralysis will doubtless dis appear which proved to be the case this is the boasted land of but where is the woman who has liberty of bodily movements from the crown of her head bead to the sole of her feet she is bound by the fetters j bed by fashion v small heavy heavy uncomfortable bonnets tight coils of hair bair tight collars tight sleeves tight dresses pull backs tight shoes tight gloves there really seems to be no organs left en f rely untrammeled trammeled but eyes and tongue would that for human itys sake slie she would use her eyes in studying the divine idea of beauty and her tongue in proclaiming proclaiming gods physical lawsl mary M A auen n M H D in |
