Show cops corset e t a v F foe health writer claims it rt Is rs not LN esy ky but bu t A disfiguring A at t be ft r its 1 I ons axi t wear weir produces an c iad wd ONIE time ago dr phillippe marechale Marc chale attempted to get a law into the french stat utes giving the bov eminent control of 0 the eale sale of corsets he lie made it a misdemeanor for or any woman under thirty years of age to ear one imposing a penalty ot of three months in prison or a fine of lie planned to have the manufacturer and dealer submit ro sports ports to the an u thorit les of all persona persons purchasing them on pain of having their property confiscated dr marechale MareL hale bale evi dently was fully asara of the opposition this attempted reform would arouse among women orrien and be he framed the law so stringently that no one 0 re gaii could escape it did not nasr how ever and women who are wedded to their corsets will not be divorced from them unless it should bo be decried in paris by the makers of fashion that suppleness grace natural curves and health should be among the requisites of a fashionable woman in stead of the stilted artificial cramped deformities which tho the fashionable modiste now turns upon society doys boys are allowed to reach maturity mat urty without being made over but girls are not education in the line of culture however la Is widening the horizon of american women and many are adopting a healthful mode of dress and many more would it they could adjust their clothing properly discarding the corset Is only half of the battle it if the heavy skirts hang from the tho waist and the bands are tight the discomfort Is greater than the corset and the injury nearly as great thi muscles which have been wea kenet by he corset must bo be strengthened by practice so that they will keep heep the body erect firm arm and per form the office of the steel and w whalebone hale hal bonc ebone then with un clothing der and dress made to va U V correspond to 1 HEALTH the law of beau 4 ty and natu natural r at cow form the eman woman oman will grow strong happy and attract live tire the degree of lacing in every coun court try la Is like a barometer baro mete indicating the artistic and neoral condition of 0 the epoch the earliest mention of gird ine ing was mide by that first dress reformer the prophet isaiah israel brown grown proud lu tu prosperity was given over to idolatry social degradation and anar cily an artificial of the waist i among the women accod panted an age of extravagance according to rousseau Rous acau and others 1 coar eillon of the body waa was not do i ile X 14 4 r IL ario wo lu t A 5 atleed by the spartans women were considered part of the state and were placed under training scarcely arcely gc leia less vigorous roua than the men nor is there evidence of waist stricture ture la in 1 succeeding period that of the wor hip ship of the beautiful but in the days preceding the astrue tion of the greek republics when patriotism and morals were forgot forgotten teno courtesans courte iane originating in thie this lowit order ot cf I 1 society was wa adapted by women ot at rank the romans Ilor aana in their turn took tool uti it 0 fashion 1 ir aig the early middle agee agos the claroni ci atom wag was not practiced but about the ik century the power of 0 fas n began to be he fell felt and aratt tress 1 and tight bandal nR ng in fea fealing LAng A portrait of 0 henry III ion pon if t catherine de d medici shown shows that tight lacing as a aleo also ty 1 nun mim after napoleon napoleons elevation to iro im aerial power he adopted the moat most rigorous system of ourt court etiquette etique tl quette tto an attempt to resurrect the corset vas aas made by toy the ladles ladies ot of paris fashions but it was as by the empress napoleon eald said cone the revisal of tight lacing in 1810 1910 ahls weir wear born of 0 coquetry and bad taste whim which minders children tell tells ot of fribo ions 1 taste ai at d warns me f approach ins ing decadence Ilou liou chant a writer ot of that pirlon days says stays are not composed om posed of whalebone or of hardem d leather I 1 it ot of bars of steel from three to four inches broad and many of them not leas less than eighteen inches in lenseth the corset was introduced into england in the twelfth century and at drat first was comparatively harmless its exclusive uw use characterized the reign of queen elizabcth rhe body was as incase incased in a stiff armor nd both men and women squeezed in bleir waists and swelled out their ear gar menta ments below this age of literature was the dark age of morality so far aa as the court was wait concerned the folly in dres dress was as unlimited the ruffa ruffs tor for the neck were stiffened by metal wires and by colored starch cheso wore so immense that a spoon two feet lona ions tr i was necessary to convey contey food safely to the mouth the hair wag was colored la in divers hue hups or was aas shaded shaved to ac ae cora com wiga wigs ot of various colors the puritan puritans made bitter warfare on devilish fashions f the puritan conscience banished these theme tollies follies with the immoralities of the times and cur in ancestors came cama to our shores without the iliff 1 ruff and without the steel ermour about the waist As in other countries the aa of simplicity and a vigorous vigo roua industry marked the passing of sen sible dress and in 1823 a arter in boston describes de tae the pr practice pra itice aLtice ai 0 wearing the corset day and eight tightening it when aben lying doan do and again in the morning the corset of the present day la Is more flexible and iee lose objectionable yet it ta Is still a relic of 0 barbarism writes mabl stillman it in the kee Sen sentinel the cheapness cheap neu of it put puts it within the reach of every claim and the yearly output not lu IL eluding those which are imported amounts to GOOM |