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Good Substitute For Whalebone

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
May
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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It is frequently asserted that man cannqt imitate nature, and in substantjation of thls claim -vromen now and then cite the imitation of whalebom? a:; au illustration, claiming ;hat nothing has been made as yet which possesse the merits of the genuino article. At the Madison Square Garden Costume Show an article was exhibited which effectually puts to res any further argument on the subject. The article 'm question is called Herculine, and that lts substitution for the old-fashioned whalebone as a dress stay has proven more than satisfactory is demonstrated by the fact that leading dressmakers throughout the country have used it exclusively for the p'ast two years. Herculine's superiority over whalebone has been found to be chiefly in the fact that tt never becomes dry and breaks, and that it always retains its shape.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Courier