Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1877 — Tight Gloves and Shoes. [ARTICLE]

Tight Gloves and Shoes.

A writer in the Bt. Louis Times remonstrates with women, young and old, for injuring their health by wearing tight gloves and shoes. She thus pictures what some women suffer for fashion’s sake: 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. or 7, a glove half-size less may be used, and is used in multitudes of cases; it can be pulled, pushed and stretched until fairly adjusted; tbe palm of the hand is folded almost together; the round, fat wrist puffs up, but a stout hairpin 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 lesson—a persistency worthy a better service. After both hands are thus imprisoned there is nothing left but to hold them in position, for they will hold nothing else, as they are rendered useless. Ladies sit for hours in this way, the blood Dressed away from the extremities—where? Toward the brain and heart. Said a lady just returned from a walk, “ I am glad to get home and get into a wrapper; my dress hurts and my gloves hurt, and 1 am tired out.” The toot must also suffer in this unequal war. Too small shoes are purchased, with the assurance that they will stretch, the voice of the shopkeeper prevailing over the voice of wisdom. Cola feet, ana painful swellings, and an ungraceful carriage are the results. A lady artist said to me: ” My hand is large. I cannot help it—it is tbe result oi constant practice. No very small or delicate hand can render the themes of the grand old masters of song.” J ust then her servant brought in a jar of fmit, which she could not unloose; but lady fair, with- one twist of the trained band, that had been expressing silent notes into enchanting strains of sound, removed the cover. 0,1 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 with out it. This evil is wide-spread, 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. “Gotall kinds of tics here?” said a would-be wit, entering a well-kiiown furnishing store. “ Yes, sir,” replied Ihe shopman. “ Well, I should like a pig sty,” remarked the “All right, sir ; just bend down your hogshead and we will take your measure,” said the ready shopman. —Hair Tonic.-*-Bcald black tea, two ounces with one gallon of boiling water; ■train, and add three ounces of glycerine, and one quart of bay rum. Mix well by ■baking and then add any kind of perfume.