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Luxury Of Easy Dresses

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
March
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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The following, elipped from "Lavra of Life," ie especial ly cmimtnded to the careful perusa] ol ludi.'s who indulge ia tight lncing : Very few Udies know how to nppreciate an easy houllliful dress. Tbey ibink their dreBses are Ioo-ío, wben a man or boy put into one as tight would gasp ibr brea'.li, and feol inoapable of putting forth auy effort rxoept to break the bands. Lidies aro so accustomed to tight 6ts of drcísniakers that they "fall to pieces" wlien relieved of them. Tliey afsocinte tlie looss dreas with the bed or 1 muge, ïo bc vap, they must be stayed up, and to rccoiumend a conifortable dress to thcin is noc lo :ucet a cenacious want of theirs. It is a great p tv, none the less. If they could once know whnt a luxury it is to breath doep aud full at eaeh respiraticn, to feel the ntfrchKmcnt which the ajitem takes in by having the blood cd livenod and sent bounding through the arteries and veins, to have aids to digestión which such process gives, to have their own 8trong, clastic muscles keep every organ in placo and themseWts erect : f they could for nwhile know this blessed luxnry, nnd then be sent back to lbo old stifTstraight-jackete, they would fume and frot and ravo in very decperation if they could not get rid of thom. As it is, they prefor to languish and suiïer dreailfully, und dio young, and 1-iave all their friends and their husbands and their littlü children, acd I do not nee auy ot-her way but to let thera be sick and die till they are eatisfied. If only the sinner was the suffcrer it would not be so worth wliile to mako a great ado about it, but the blighting of future innocent lives which must follow, renders th; false habits of our wotnen in the highcfit degree criminal.

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Old News
Michigan Argus