Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — small Waists. [ARTICLE]

small Waists.

English and American physicians, years ago, made tight-lacing uufashiouable. But the mania for small waists is now so violent as to provoke the London 'Times to protest against the barbarous fashion: “Ah! you go in for waists, I for figures, "said a lady of truly artistic taste to a friend who tight-laoed. When will the ladies learn that small waists have in them no beauty? The number of de-formed-looking girls and women is a sorrowful sight for the artist or the doctor. The odious custom appears to be more prevalent than ever; and what is gained by cruel torture and the loss of health? Certainly not beauty. Some of these silly batbarians are young enough to be under the authority of parents. Surely parents who care for their children's lives should peremptorily forbid tight-lacing. The corset is in itself a perfec ly needless article of apparel for straight and strong girls. You might as well brace a young poplar in a coat of mail.