Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1877 — Fashionable Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Fashionable Suicide.

Mistress Fashion has also decreed a tight glove for the hand and a compress for the foot. It prevents the free flow of the blood, causes discomfort and injury. No matter if the hand calls for No. 6| or 7, a glove half a size less may be used, and is used in multitudes of cases; it can be pulled, pushed and stretched until fairly adjusted; the palm of the hand is folded almost together; the round, fat wrist puffs up, but a stout hair-pin will settle that. “ This glove has got to be buttoned, if I never get to church,’’ said a young girl just taking her first society lessons—a persistency worthy a better service. After both hands are thus imprisoned, tiiefe is nothing left but to hold them in position, for they will hold nothing else, as they are rendered useless. Ladies ait for hours in this way, the blood pressed away from the extremities—where ? toward the brain and heart. Said a lady just returned from a walk: “lam so" glad to get home and get into a wrapper; my dress hurts, and my gloves hurt, and I am tired out.” The foot must also suffer in this unequal war. Too small shoes are purchased, with the assurance that they will stretch, the voice of the shop-keeper prevailing over the voice of wisdom. Cold feet, and painful swellings, and an ungraceful carriage are the result. A lady artist said to me:My hand is large; I cannot help it—it is the result of constant pracflce. No very small or delicate hand can render the themes of the grand old masters of song.” Just then her servant brought in a jar of fruit which she could not unloose, but our lady fair, with one twist of the trained that had been expressing silent notes into enchanting strains of sound, removed the cover. Oh, I think that a grand hand! A friend tells me of a beautiful lady in this city whose arms were paralyzed from the use of what is called “ Flake White,” a face powder in common use. She left it off, and is well and better-looking without it. Thia evil is widespread, and endangers life; hair dyes produce violent pains in the head, injure the brain, and are sure in time to produce paralysis and death. As if there were not enough suffering in life. It is pitiful.— St. Louis Times.

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