. Fowler's works on education and self-improvement, cultivation of the memory and intellect, on matrimony, hereditary descent, its laws and facts, natural religion, temperance and tight lacing : all founded on phrenology & physiology . p over, as will be seen on examining thechests of many a lady promenading our streets. Probably few femaleswill read this who do not Icnoio of some female acquaintance whose ribshave been made to lap over by tight-lacing. The distance from thelower end of this ladys breast-bone to her spine, was only one inch andthree-fourths, not a THIRD its usual distance. The
. Fowler's works on education and self-improvement, cultivation of the memory and intellect, on matrimony, hereditary descent, its laws and facts, natural religion, temperance and tight lacing : all founded on phrenology & physiology . p over, as will be seen on examining thechests of many a lady promenading our streets. Probably few femaleswill read this who do not Icnoio of some female acquaintance whose ribshave been made to lap over by tight-lacing. The distance from thelower end of this ladys breast-bone to her spine, was only one inch andthree-fourths, not a THIRD its usual distance. The amount of air supposed to be breathed at each ordinary, naturalinspiration is found to average about six pints; while the amount usuallyinspired by a tight-laced lady, is only about three pints, or a diminutionof about one half! Of course, tight-lacers have only /laZ/ of their naturalpowers of life, and are therefore only about half alive, the other halfbeing dead—dead while they live, besides the shortening of their lives byhastening death. Again. Notice the process of breathing in yourself; and when unre-strained, you will see a full, free expansion and contraction of the ribs. 6 LACING INTERRUPTS THE PROCESS OF Their expansion is seen in Cut No. 2,which represents the ribs full and nat-ural. Lacing prevents that expansionof the chest which is natural in breath-ling, and by means of which alone aircan be admitted into the lungs. Thisshows how it is that tight-lacing pre-vents breathing, and thus literally svf-focates its fashionable victim. And Inow appeal to every corseted woman,whether she does not experience asinking faintness, a choking for wantof breath, a suffocating sensation, asthough she should die; a panting forbreath, which, carried much farther,would destroy life on the spot. It isthis which occasions so many lacedwomen to faint at church, or on occa-sions where the house is full, and theair therefore less pure. They obtainbut little breath at all e
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