THE FOLLY AND WICKEDNESS OF TIGHT-LACINC.-I.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 12, 25 March 1893, Page 286

THE FOLLY AND WICKEDNESS OF TIGHT-LACINC.-I.

One of the best English society journals is now publishing a series of excellent articles on this important question. A few quotations from them will be given in this paper. The subject is one of such vital interest that it deserves the attention of every woman in the civilised world. This week a few lines of poetry bearing on this subject from The Whitehall Review are given :

MADAME TIOHTLACE. Ms lady sighs. And her languid eyes Look sad in the morning l.ght; Head and heart both ache, And her hands they shake And her lips and cheeks are white; Of the pains of pleasure she knows the taste. And t he price she pays for a tiny waist. Each day in the park The men remark Her girdle of eighteen inches; They praise her dress. But they never guess How that exquisite garment pinches, How her body is tortured and tightly laced, And what is the cost of a tiny waist.

There’s many a maid By Fashion laid In the arms of an early grave : So, maiden and dame, Say who’s to blame. And stretch out an arm to save ; For death and disease are always placed By the side of a girl with a tiny waist.

Dear damsels, who Your bodies screw Into half their true proportions, If you only heard The terms conferred On your ugly vain contortions. You would not be in such painful haste To make a display of your tiny waist!