Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1874 — Corsets. [ARTICLE]

Corsets.

About the middle of the tenth century there came up a terrible and cruel corset {failed cottto hard it*. These were stiffened with steel and clasped with brass or gold. We know very well from the pictures of' that period what intensely small waists were produced, and what stillness ,of figure. The French words corps and serve* (to tighten), which, seem to have sugfested the word corset , could not have ettcr expressed this article of dress. We do not know bow; many women dig cl of these corsets —probably more than have ever died of a broken heart. Men,, as well as womCn wore the horrible things. One lady of rank is described as wearing “ a splendid girdle of beaten gold about her middle small.” Chaucer describes one of his beauties as being 11 small as a weasel And upright as a bolt,” which docs not suggest a very pleasing image of female loveliness to the modern mind.— Appleton's Journal.' '

“ Each particle ot matter which comSoses it Is supposed to move in a liyperolic orbit,"with the sun in the focus of the opposite branch, under tlie influence of a repulsive sored emanating from the sun, and decreasing by the law of the inverse square of tlie distanced That’s what gives glory to the comet’s tail.