Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1880 — Tight Lacing. [ARTICLE]

Tight Lacing.

It would seem almost a waste of time to declaim against the custom of tight lacing; but we can sometimes use a case to point-a moral and serve as an illustration. Such Was the case of Emma Plant, an English servant girl, who died suddenly in Norwood, and whose death a coroner's inquest decided to be dne to tight lacing. Of course the act of death was only the closing scene iu a drama of dying by inches for weeks or months; ®f» least, ever since she began the foolish prtcticewhich restrictedherto just nineteen years of existence. It is useless. to argue with the perversity of taste which sees beauty in an utter wan* of proportion between bust and waist, nor apparanUy, Is much to be gained by tolling the fair fanatics who so indulge that, while doctors condemn and denounce the practice, artiste abominate it and the creature known as marriageable men never like it. Yet at least let those who set the fashion to silly girls like the „ Why is it so hard to find a man when ▼oo want to borrow money from him?.

nv twiw [called Towka,, and witboL gfflL do their chUdrwuThey around their necks at birth a string with one bead on. and at the expiration of the LT«£S otLriSng^mi^Umt arrive at IG'is mluriiekble, a b^Ctoe fi yooSg man mast pomam a necklace of twenty Before he is reckoned capable of taking on himself so serious a responsibility. Bat the wedding feaat is the thing. The invited guests assemble on what answers to ear village green, and set in the midst is a canoe, the property of the bridegroom, brimming wUh palm wine. sweetened with honey, and thickened with crashed plantains. Th« drinkingcops arv calabashes, which are set floating in the fragrant Jiqoor, and seated around It, tha company fell to—a mark of politonaai being to drink out of aa many rslshashts have boon drank out of by somebody else, as possible. It should be mentioned, however, to the Towkan’s credit, that his wife is not present at this tremendous drinking bout or rather boat She remains in her father’s hut, and when her intended has finished with the calabashes he takes his whistle of bamboo and his ’Horntom,” which is a hollow little log, tied over at each end witii bits of leather, and, seating himself at the door of hie parents-ia-uw prospective, he commences to bang and tootle sweet music, until the heart of the tender creature within is softened,and they let him in.—London Globe.