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CIVILISED.

St-o tho Woman I She has step-ladder, corkscwy heals on her shoos and has Equeezecl her feet into a pair several sizes tpo small ; and ?ho looks as if she was going to fall forward and be deformed Eomo.more. She is having a continuous struggle with tho lnw of gravitation. She has a steel frame about her upper part_ and has compressed her waist so that it looks like the small end of a funnel, and Ehe can hardly breathe, and her internal anatomy has shifted quarters, and there arc several jobs ahead for the family doctor. And she don't know why sho feels "poorly" most of the time. She is pinned, tied, laced, and braced. Sho uses cosmetics, hair dyos, paipts, powders, belladonna to brighten her eyes, and all manner of false and uncomfortable things aro on and about her from her head down. iiho has rings on her fingers, bangles on her ■\vribts, a chain about her neck, many trinkdU on her breast, and her blood has to Btruggle for circulation. Sho has birds and gay-coloured plumes and feathers on her hat, and she wearoth ninny colours She is not. what sho \vas> created, but is what sho has croated. • Is the Woman a Savago? No — she is the Flower of Civilisation I — Henry Waldorf Francis, in Life.

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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 12

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CIVILISED. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 12

CIVILISED. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 09, 11 January 1908, Page 12