The Household

What dees the Ladies' Rational Dres8 Association, with Lady Haberton as it haed, say about the advertisement8 in the Queen anent coraet8? "They reduce the size of the figure I without causing any injurious pressure, while their gracef ui shape adds a new charm to the form." Whether tha I audacity or the mendacity of the ment is the greater may be a matter on whicn opinions can differ, the magnitude of each being bo great. A liyer I compreesed till the marks oi the ribs are visible after death; that ia not "iniurious pressure." Heither is ment of some of the leas flxed organu i "injurious pressure," I smppose? To : have the viscera driven downward until displacement follows, is quite a trifle from the modiste's point of view, perhaps: but to the physiciaa it ia a gi-ave matter, often entailing ill health for the rest of a life-time. And as to the "gracef ui shape" of a wasp-waisted lady; that, too, only exists from the modiste's point of view. Then, as to I the lower limbs; why are they merely to be concealed from view by flowing skirts? Decencyis honored, but why not health? Warm woolen covennga to the lower limbs are quite as desi rabie for the sof ter as for the more robnst sex.