Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1909 — A Little Corset Chat. [ARTICLE]

A Little Corset Chat.

A ready made cprset, like ready made clothing, may appear to be satisfactory when first put on, but wear soon developes the fact that it does not fiold its shape and is not adapted to the figure. Boned with stiff unyielding steels, or inferior unsanitary bones, splintering and puncturing the cloth, often lacerating the weareY, the average corset is an unsightly instrument of torture add absolutely worthless in showing tie lines of the figure. In addition to these difficulties with which she must contend, the adjustment of a woman’s organism is so delicate that the wearing of a corset which is rigid and unyielding produces derangements peculiar to women and developes a chain of miseries which often last through life. Every physician will tell you the most frequent cause of disease among women is due to tight lacing and unsanitary corsets. Tight lacing and waring corsets not adapted to the figure, should be avoided as you would smallpox. Cheap corsets are not only rigid and uncomfortable, but they are not hygenlc. They dwarf your physicial development and thereby deplete your strength. The'■-■best do not fit the figure as they should. They bring too much pressure on the body, where it is oftentimes very sensitive and do not touch the body at other points. This unequal distribution of pressure is very injurious and there should be no perceptible pressure anywhe e Besides the stays rust and break and the corset does not retain its shape. The present mode is to give a straig t line from the breast bone to the toes. Physicians admit that the Spirella company have overccme the objectionable fetures in the average corset. The straight front Spirella corset does not repress the pit of the stomach or interfere with digestion. Instead of dividing the organs of the chest from those of the abdomen and making an hour-glass of the figure as the old time co: set did by pressing in at the waist line, the straight front acts as a support to the' abdomen when properly adjusted. \ Chairs,! settees, tables, rugs, pictures, pennants, lawn tennis rackets, polo clubs, golf sticks, a piano, and a nunjuer of magazines constitute the fhrul strings of a room on the second floor of the Odd Fellows building. It is the quarters of the Iroquois Club, a social organization of young men, largely clerks, though partly of school boys. The room is a spacious one and can readily be arranged for small dances and the members have several times l.een hosts to small dancing parties since the club was organized. In the K. of P. building the Beta Phi Sigma Club has its quarters and another club is also located over Warner’s store. The Beta Phi Sigma boys were ■ the first to organize and so tidy are their quarters and so succ ssfully has the club been managed that it has induced organization of the ether and equally successful clubs. The Beta Phi Sigma Club has given several ! dances at the armory and will give another one tonight The requirements of the clubs demand respectability of the members, and any vicious habits or disgraceful conduct on the part of members is sufficient to result in their dismissal. Smoking is permissable, but only a few of the members indulge in this habit The average boy needs just such a 1 place to spend part of his time with his companions and if the surroundings are inviting and the moral tone is proper and the regulations in the matter of hours are enforced, no boy can belong to one of the clubs without receiving some benefit As we see it Rensselaer boyp are a lot i better off with the existence of clubs I than they would be with a few sa- ! loons doing business here. Buy your footwear at our Exclusive Shoe Store and get free tickets to the Princess theatre for next Friday and Saturday evenings. One ticket with each dollar purchase. * B. N. FENDIG.

Try a sack of Northwestern Chief flour, every sack guaranteed at Lowman’s market. $1.40 a sack. Phone 212. Try a can of our California Lemon Cling Peaches in heavy syrup. Equal to those that others ask 25 and 30 cents for, only 20 cents a can.

JOHN EGER

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