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Show The Martyrdom of Fashion. Mrs. Frances WiUard, the able president of tho Women's Christian Temperance union, who has devoted her whole life to leaguing the women against the traffic which has made martyrs of so many of them, has never herself her-self been able to escape the martyrdom of women's fashions. Iu a recent publication she cries out against tho miseries of high heels and fight corsets, and yet she evidently continues to wear them, for she says that she "has never known a single physically reasonable reason-able or oomf ortable day since that sweet May morning, in her 10th year, when she was first confronted with corsets, high heels, hairpins, long petticoats, and such like instruments of torture." She declare! that since then fihe has "ceased to bo a denizen of God's beautiful outdoors, and has remained In her cage the house right through all tho years because her high heels threw her out of polso, and the clinging folds of her long tailed gown bothered her." She says that "I say to myself so often, 'If I could only put on a hat, button a coat around mo and step out freely, how delightful that would bo.1 But no; there ore intricate preliminaries pre-liminaries of changing slippers for boots and a wrappor for a walking gown befora a woman oan do so simple A thing as go for a constitutional." Which shows that it la easier to reform the whole world than abandon one's own tami-uine tami-uine vanities. New York World. |