Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — MEN WHO WEAR CORSETS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MEN WHO WEAR CORSETS.

The Inquirer Will Not Find Very M.nj Except Among the Military. At Intervals the subject of corsets for men comes up for discussion in the daily papers, and mora or less

profound homilies are written upon the vanity of men. As a matter of fact, however, corsets are practically unknown among Americans, as they are among men of every other country except those in which, the military forces

are of the fore most importance. Men are born with a tendency to weight just as they are with a tendency to grow tall or to remain

short, and even the ) most profound efforts on the partiof fat men do not result in reducing them to the proportions demanded by military custom. Hence the stays which are a portion )of the outfit of many officers in the B'rench, German, and Austrian armies. A French-

man Id civil life, however, who wore stays would be looked upon with as much contempt In his own country as here. Some of the heavy military dandies in London wear stays, but as a rule the athletic work of the average English officer involves such severe training and constant\exercise that he does not need an/artificial compression for his waist.

GERMAN CORSET FOR MEN.

FRENCR CORSET FOR MEN.