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Show trie FALSE MUSCLE INDUSTRY. Shapely Caircs Qlade to Order JTo US-cclists US-cclists la Velsli factories. There is one department of industry which, by the general admission ot those engaged in it, is exempt from tha stagnation which so largely prevails. Indeed it is in a remarkably flourishing etate, and the men and women employed employ-ed at it are kept busy from morning tJ night. It is that which deals with the supply of artificial sinews and musclea in order to give to limbs the plumpness and symmetry which nature has denied. The great demand at the present tirns is for well shaped oalves for tho legs, and for eome time the purveyors ol theeo or?bellishnients could not makt out wb so many of them were wanted, beoause the requirements of tho ladies of the ballet and burlesque actresses are piitty much the same all tho yeaj round, and thero was nothing going on to occasion an unusual request ur tha articles. But they have now found out tho reason. rea-son. They nre required by lady cyclists who wear knickerbockers, and who, naturally enough, desire to exhibit ta mankind the limbs which are not covered cov-ered by these bulky garments in at shapely and attractive a form as possible. possi-ble. Tho stuffing required for this purpose pur-pose must be of the best kind, and it it also necessary that the mold should bo well fitting; otherwise the lady cyclist would become a kind of scarecrow on wheels instead of a thing of beauty The articles, therefore, cost more than thn ordinary calves, and it may accordingly accord-ingly be said that tho latest fashion among women not only encourages cycle making, but also aids the artistic upholstery up-holstery of the human figure in th hichtjst farm Cardiff Wales Mail new oexsry op to .juto In New Jersey the governor has signed sign-ed a bill admitting women to tho practice prac-tice of law. The bill was presented by Assemblyman Drake of Jersey City on behalf of Miss Mary Philbrook, who secured se-cured the names of 00 lawyers in ita favor. |