LATEST YANKEE INVENTION.

Kumara Times, Issue 869, 14 July 1879, Page 2

LATEST YANKEE INVENTION.

A man lately called at the Chicago Tribune office to show the editors a patent corset that was bound to revolutionise society. “ You see, he said “ its just the same as an ordinary corset in all its essential particulars. But there are sevmil attachments not found in the ordinary corset, and which form the particular charm of ray patent improved corset—the ‘ Ab>ent Friend Recalled,’ as I poetically call it. Round the central section of the corset there extends, as you will see, a hinged catnip — a curious, a very simple arrangement of powerful springs, so arranged that tiio pressure they exert can no graduated at ple.isme, and as instantaneously exerted or removed. Hie pressure var.es from that of a timid and unaccustomed friend whose muscle is imperfectly developed, or who has aboil on the inside of his elbow, up to that exerted by He.cnles

when engaged in strangling a boa-con?* structor; on the scale they are from G 3 up to A A 11, the equivalent in pounds being given, so that the youn lady can set her corset so as to squeeze her precisely so much and no more when she has discovered by experiment—as she can easily do—her betrothed’s hugging power. Thus if a woman has no lover, or, her admirer has gone to the lodge, or to see another, or is out of town, all she has to do is to put on her automatic corset,, touch the spring, and, with a little exercise of the imagination, recall the absent one. He also explained that he intends to fit to the corset an outside arrange-* ment—a rod of steel surmounted with a spiral spring hearing an artificial moustache strongly impregnated with cloves, trix, cigar smoke) or any other perfume thai may be desired, ami which, by the action of the compressors of the corset will be made to touch the wearer’s check with a life-life motion.