Show EFFECTS OF TIGHT LACING I I Something of Importance 0 Young and Growing filrln We never lace just see how loose our corpetfi are is the constant cry of young ladies whose pale faces show the com prSionof ar Let them try the experiment preRsion year lr Time of the Philadelphia periment going in says undress for QUO TIIJW and I I the resultBoo the wonderful expansion mark the J I pansion of waist and chest Perhaps girls are not so much to blame I I for this as mother for the common custom cus-tom of pinching in the waist of growing arisen from the I I girls has most probably arisn from difficulty in keeping tho clothes difcu1y oftnn j I slipping down And again girls s1Jpin cown lace their corsets and wear them for months without changing the strings changng so while the bodies grow bigger the stays do not and compression takes place An inelastic corset effectually effectu-ally hinders the gradual enlargement of the body of a growing girl and presses on her soft bones like a vise At no period of life is the pressure on any part of the body so terribly injurious a during the period of growth for not only a the I bones soft and easily deformable but Jeer J-eer organ of the body has its duty of I i development to perform and this development I de-velopment is cramped and hindered by external compression As pressure on J any part is injurious mothers must see I that it will not be right simply to remove j the pressure of the clothes from the waists I and suspend their whole weight from the shoulders as is frequently done as this is a cause of stooping of poking forward the head and of spinal trouble The weight of the clothes should be evenly distributed and this result can be accomplished accom-plished by wearing union garments fitted rather closely to the figure or by supporting support-ing petticoats and drawers to a wellfitted bodice If we want our children to have erect frames clothed with fine muscles we must see t it that they have healthy dress a liberal amount of physical exercise exer-cise food and wellprepared nourishing plain I |