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Show Rulers' FutiU Effort to Put Ban on Corset The corset, writes Looker-On In the London Dally Chronicle, which threatens to resume Its old whalebone whale-bone rigidity with the return of longer long-er skirts snd tighter waists, must rank among the articles of dress which, however often denounced, seem Invulnerable against attack. Louis XVI of France, though he suppressed sup-pressed the high .headdresses of court ladles by a word, could not win obedience to a decree against the corset, and when Charles X, proving once more that the Bourbons are un-teachable, un-teachable, condemned It to extinction, extinc-tion, It was noted that the ladles merely clasped It about them more tightly than ever. A more subtle move was that of Emperor Joseph II of Austria, who sought to discredit discred-it the corset by ordering that women of bad character or convicted of serious seri-ous crimes should be made to wear them. But even that did not discourage dis-courage the others 1 |