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Show Present Mode in Women's Clothing Has Been of Material Benefit to Humanity By DR. PAUL STRASSMAN, University of Berlin. Numerous women's ailments are disappearing as a result of the athletic ath-letic type of clothing now decreed by fashion. Mode rules the world, and the accident that caused strangling corsets and other torturing apparel to be thrown into discard has been a boon to humanity. Anemia is one of the diseases that has almost entirely disappeared since more sensible clothing has been in vogue. The day of the tall, wil lowy, lily-like figure, topped by a pale bloodless face, that was once con sidered the height of fashion, has given way to a sort of mellow plumpness plump-ness or roundness of the figure, well-developed muscles and firm, nour ished tissue, set off by a vivacious face, ruddy with the glow of health. Cancer, one of the enemies of mankind that has been fostered by civilization, is almost unknown among certain savage tribes that regard clothin" from the standpoint of a necessity, rather than a medium foi expression of personality and gratification of vanity. |