Are Corsets Healthful?

The desire for a perfect form, or at least one as near perfection as possible, is one of the weaknesses of a majority of the fair sex in civilized lands. To attain this ideal, as it existed iu various modes in divers ages, tight lacing was resorted to, at a sacrifico of health and often of lile. We have changed all that. Modern ingenuity has deyised means at once to produce a pleasing effect and to conserve the health of the person wise enpugh to adopt them. Corsets will be worn, doctors notwithstanding. ïhere are corsets and corsets. Many sorts are eluinsy and hurtful. Sotne do no harm. A few do good. The Schilling Corset Company, of Detroit aml Chicago, manufacture, among other designs, the Model Form, High Bust and American Lady Corsets, without the coiled wire springs side section. These come in a variety of colors, and are all of best materials and worknianship,elegaut and durable. They also manufacture a "Health Preserving" corset, which has been named after the physician who designed it, and which has obtained great favor throughout the country. The feature which has made this corset so popular coDsists of a series oí coiled wire springs extending from under the arms down over the hips, allowing of an easy expansión at the top of the eorset for respiration, and at the hips for adjuslmeirt,while at the waist,where strength is required, it has a continuous spiral spring seetion of six inehes, allowing only very. slight expansión, which obviates the only objection ever raised against a coiled wire spring eorset. So other eorset has this characteristic, which is invaluable to ladies desiring a comfortable, easy and healthf ui as well as a close-fitting and durable eorset. Dealers in these goods are instructed to refund the parebase price if the article does not prove perfectly satisfactory, The management take pleasure in announeing the engagement at the Grand opera house on Wednesday night, Jan. 18, of the Booth-Barrett production ot "Julius CsBsar," universally pronounced by the press and people throughout the country as being the greatest production of the play ever presented in America. The company presenting the play is one of the finest ever organized'for the presentation of the legitímate drama, which sliould be doublé assurauce of a liberal patronage. Mr. Chas. Hanford, who ueads thecompany, is regarded as one of the most brilliant and promising Shakespeare mi actors of the day, having been pronounced by the press and public the greatest "Mare Antony" the American stage has ever known. Mr. Booth and Mr. Barrett both pronounced him such. and during his tour of two successive seasons through the country in the part, he shared equally the honors of these two great stars. Hiscompany. includingMr. L. R. Spencer as "Cassius," and Mr. Bennett Matlack as "Brutas," is an unusually strong one- each member of the large cast ha ving been especially selected not only lor his or her ability as an actor or actress, but as nearly a's possible with reference to historica] likeness for tiie role played. föhn McCulIough tells a good story of his recent trip through yew York state. He was playing at the modern Syracuse John Banim's noble play of the ancient Syracuse - "Danion and Pythias. " T'Datnon," when hehears of the election of "Philistius" as president, mournfully says: "There is now no public virtue now left in Syracuse." At this point a hard-headed old farmer, frora somewhere along the line of the canal, being carried away by the illusion of the play, and indignant at the slur on Syracuse, rose up and solemnly remariced: 'f "íf you come to this, neither is there in Utiky '."