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Show AN APPEAL FOR MODEST DRESS. Elizabeth Catty Stanton Urges ITliss Cleveland to luausrurate Dress ICcform. Elizabeth Cady Stanton has written from Tenafly,N. J., an open letter to Miss Cleveland, desiring her, in view of her exalted position as first ladv of the land, to lead a movement to check the present tendency of women to dress immodestly. im-modestly. Mrs. Stanton submits three propositions, as follows: 1. Who starts new fashions, and what is their significance? 2. What is their relation to health, comfort, convenience and beauty? 3. What is their effect on the morals of the individual and society? Considering the question of health as related to low corsage. Mrs. Stanton thinks that if the ladies cannot reconcile themselves to such stringent measures as draping all their charms tbo ri40rj,,. of the lower limbs would be less injurious, injuri-ous, as none of the vital organs is located in those parts of the human frame. She asserts that our fashions come mainly from the courtesans of France, whose cheif study is to play upon the passions of men, and dress to that view. "Our innocent in-nocent girls," she writes, "mistake the example of this class of women without understanding the philosophv on which their fashions are based." Mrs. Stanton appeals to Miss Cleveland to give to her countrywomen an exhaustive essay on the subject. |