Progress Of Dress Reform

The disoussion that lonoweu a i „The Ethicsof Dress,"given at a ÏLau's Jlub theotherday, proved that Hfof íhewomenoutof the 800 or SSw preeent had ah-eady in a measure Slted reform underclüthing, but that 1T of them drew the line at yery rTdcal reforms that extended to the ?s itself ünion imderclothiiig, hose Sat we supportedbya spiral metal garer acordedwaist in plaoe of a corset Ind a divided skirt or sitt: petUcoat p,-p the ciu-ments most affected. For S th eqnestrian tights of black Lol or silk were iTrged to be much warmer, Üghter and pleasanter to walk tothiin the old fashioned short skirt of flannel that had a disagreeable way of 1-appiug itself abont the legs. The wickedness of the corset was illnstrated hvnieans of charts, and attention was ralled tothe fact that at the national council of wennen ïateiy nem m vy.umgton only one paper out of the largo nwnbcr rcad by dress ref ormers f avored the wearing of corsets. Miss Anthony, while she put herself on record as havng woru one for many years, admittec that she did not approve of them, and thnt slia had never known a comí ortable