p. 653 | It Must Go

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 41.

It Must Go.

LADIES, do you not see that the corset must go? It has become a scientific query, “Are there two types of breathing?” and the advocates of either side of the question unite only in this: “Women cannot breathe naturally in a corset.” They all agree that the corset is a splint, a bandage, a crutch, an injury to woman and an insult to the Creator, implying that his last work was imperfect, needing to be remodeled and strengthened by the ingenuity of human skill.

Sisters, let us no longer cast this stigma upon Omniscience, but rather let us heartily adopt as our motto the Arab proverb, “There is no gain in amending the work of God.”—Herald of Health.