Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1909 — A Little Corset Chat. [ARTICLE]

A Little Corset Chat.

A ready made corset, like ready made clothing, may appear to be satisfactory when first put on, but wear soon developed the fact that it does not hold Its shape is not adapted to the figure. Boned with stiff unyielding steels, or Inferior unsanitary bones, splintering and puncturing the cloth, often lacerating the wearer, the average corset Is an unsightly Instrument of torture and absolutely worthless in showing the 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 physiclal 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 pointe. This unequal distribution of pressure Is very injurious and these should be no perceptible pressure anywhere Besides the stays rust and break and the corset does not retain its shape. The present mode is to give a straigh line from the breast bone to the toes. Physicians admit that the Spirella company have overcome 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 corset did by pressing In at the waist line, the straight front acts as a support to the abdomen when properly adjusted.

A great many people have kidney and bladder trouble, mainly due to neglect of the occasional pains In the back, slight rheumatic pains, urinary disorders, etc. Delay In such cases is dangerous. Take DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills. They are for weak back, backache, rheumatic pains and all kidney and bladder trouble. Soothing and antiseptic. Regular size 50c. Sold by all druggists. The qparterly statement of receipts for the secretary of state’s office shows a total of 39,653.50 received as fees for authorizing domestic corporations, 3461 for domestic corporations, $2.004.90 for miscellaneous fees collected for changes in names, increase in capital stock and other changes requiring new records, $525.50 for motor vehicle registration and $2,312 for the recording of court report sales. The total is $14,956.90. Aroused by a gasping noise at her side, Mrs. Henry Bolinger, of North Manchester, awoke in time to see her husband expire at her side Sunday night Apoplexy was the cause of death. Mrs. Emma McMillan, who Is a daughter of State Senator Floyd Parks, of Jeffersonville, representing Clark, Scott and Jennings counties, has sued her husband, Herbert McMillian, also a member of a prominent Clark county family, for $lO a week for her support, alleging that for three months her husband has forbidden her the home of his parents where they had been living and has refused to make provision for her support