p. 16 | Corsets Must Go by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jun 7, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 23.

Corsets Must Go

By Editor

Corsets Must Go.—The Minister of Education in Saxony issued a decree on May 3, that thereafter "all girls and young ladies who attend the public schools and colleges of Saxony shall discard corsets and stays. The decree is the result of vigorous agitations in the press and public lectures of the medical fraternity. Physicians have been unanimous in their denunciations of the alarming increase of tight lacing, especially in Dresden and other large cities of Saxony. The practise has become so prevalent that children of the age of ten and twelve years have become addicted to tight lacing, and it is feared that the continuance of the custom will prove pernicious to posterity." This is a good thing, tho the civil government is not the place for such a decree to issue; the decision ought to have been in the parents in the beginning. Why will parents allow their children to be thus choked to death? Why will women persist in crowding to inaction and disease the heart, stomach, lungs, and liver, and upsetting and deranging the functions of all lower organs? Why not commit suicide of the race in a quicker way? The bound foot of the Chinese woman of ease is a thousand times preferable to the bound waist of the civilized white female.