Physical culture . Reflections of a Corset Advertisement Girl By W. LIVINGSTON LARNED In me you see a strange decree Set forth by Fashion at her worst; Im culled from freak Society And down our printed page rehearsed. There never was a time—nor place But what they kept me at my pace; Deformed, and twisted, fair of face And yet by Laws of God accursed. In me you see the tragic side Of those who have no thoughts sublimeBut who, with all their petty pride Destroy the grace of ancient ask me if Im not in pain,If all this lacing is a gain,The shape a mockery—insane—I freely grant that tis
Physical culture . Reflections of a Corset Advertisement Girl By W. LIVINGSTON LARNED In me you see a strange decree Set forth by Fashion at her worst; Im culled from freak Society And down our printed page rehearsed. There never was a time—nor place But what they kept me at my pace; Deformed, and twisted, fair of face And yet by Laws of God accursed. In me you see the tragic side Of those who have no thoughts sublimeBut who, with all their petty pride Destroy the grace of ancient ask me if Im not in pain,If all this lacing is a gain,The shape a mockery—insane—I freely grant that tis a crime. In me you see the agony Of form divine gone deadly wrong;Sane people stop and laugh at me, And class me where I well belong,A vagrant derelict of claySomewhat like Woman, in a cramped and tortured to obey The freaks of Fashion and the throng. 185. 186 Remarkable Results of a Milk Diet By CARL YORGENSEN A MILK diet is capable of bringingabout a change in the human,physical organism more quicklythan any other diet known. Itdoes not build solid tissue, as does otherfoods; in fact, it is inclined to make onephlegmatic and lazy, but it adds tissue exclusive milk diet. I mean by that,that they used nothing else but milkfor food. No solid food of any kindwas taken. One of the patients hadbeen living on nothing else but milkfor seven weeks, and he has succeededin making the largest gain, having in-
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