TOO MUCH FOR HER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 7, 18 February 1893, Page 168

TOO MUCH FOR HER.

It was at a dress reform meeting. After a beautiful little talk upon the immense advantages which a woman who dresses healthfully possesses over her sister who does not, the President said :

• Why, ladies, a woman who dresses hygienically has ten chances of long life and good health against one with a woman who wears corsets, tight collars, belts, and bands. And now,’ added the speaker, ‘ we shall be glad to hear a few words upon this subject from any one present. Will not some one give us her experience ?’ A sad-facetl little woman rose in the back of the hall. •I"am a firm believer in' dress reform,’ said she. ‘ Five years ago my mother being in poor health, took off her corset and wore health waists instead. At the same time she learned to suspend all her skirts by straps Which she hung over her shoulders, and she threw away all her stiff white collars and put little ruches in the neck of her dresses. Her garters she threw away because garters stop the circulation of the blood. There was nothing close or confined about her dress anywhere. It was the very pattern of healthfulness. ’

A murmur of applause ran around the meeting, while the president nodded a smiling approval. * And what kind of health is your mother enjoying now? queried she sweetly and with the look in her face of one who sees a coming triumph. ‘ She is in heaven,’ said the sad-faced woman.